How Manufacturing Leaders Can Close the Information Gap

Brent Donaldson | Modern Machine Shop

Shop owners and GMs do not need more information. They need earlier signals, clearer context and a better way to connect market movement to decisions about quoting, material, capacity and capital spending. 

Are You Getting the Right Information at the Right Time?

Christina Fuges | MoldMaking Technology

Mold shop owners aren't short on information; they're short on the signals that actually help them decide.

How Manufacturing Leaders Can Close the Information Gap

Brent Donaldson | Production Machining

Shop owners and GMs do not need more information. They need earlier signals, clearer context and a better way to connect market movement to decisions about quoting, material, capacity and capital spending. 

How Manufacturing Leaders Can Close the Information Gap

Brent Donaldson | Techspex

Shop owners and GMs do not need more information. They need earlier signals, clearer context and a better way to connect market movement to decisions about quoting, material, capacity and capital spending. 

Platinum Tooling Swiss-Type Tooling Boosts CNC Lathe Productivity

| Production Machining

IMTS 2026: Platinum Tooling Technologies Inc. displays Heimatec live tools, angle heads and speed multipliers with ratios of 1-to-2, 1-to-3 and 1-to-4 for Citizen, Star and Tsugami machines.

Products Finishing Reveals 2026 Qualifying Top Shops

Scott Francis | Products Finishing

PF announces this year’s highest-performing electroplating, anodizing and coating operations across North America — plus a rare tie for first place in the Plating & Anodizing category.

Punch Industry Precision-Ground Pins Provide Mirror Finish

| Modern Machine Shop

IMTS 2026: Punch Industry USA Inc. offers precision-ground round and special-shaped small-diameter mold and die components in steel and carbide, capable of achieving a mirror finish without polishing.

SABIC Compound Supports Circularity with 75% Post-Consumer Recycled Content

Matt Stonecash | Plastics Technology

SABIC's LNP Elcrin DC0051RC1 is a PCR-based, carbon fiber-reinforced polycarbonate for consumer electronics housings and structural components.

Switch to Batch Mixer Yields 'Perfect Blends' for This Compounder

Jim Callari | Plastics Technology

Replacing a ribbon blender with a rotary batch mixer helped Polymer Resources cut blend times 30% and eliminate compounding contamination.

ORECA Group Selects Siemens Software for Motorsport Racing Vehicle Development Programs

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

ORECA adopts Siemens’ Simcenter Star-CCM+ and Simcenter Optistruct to enhance computational fluid dynamics and composite optimization workflows.

Northstar RIBs Offers Range of RTM-Built Yacht Tenders

Hannah Mason | CompositesWorld

Northstar RIBs completes its Vega Lite lineup using its One-Shot RTM process, said to cut production time by 50% and result in a lighter, stronger boat.

Joby Aviation, Toyota Motor Launch Initial Phase of Strategic Alliance

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

The long-time partners have formed a joint venture that will establish groundwork for commercial production and support Joby’s expansion long-term, with the central goal of bringing AAM on a broader scale.

Firefly Scales Composite Lunar Lander Production With $144M NASA Moon Mission Contract

Ginger Gardiner | CompositesWorld

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contract will deliver next Blue Ghost mission in ≈2 years, helping to support NASA’s Moon Base and multiple Moon landings/year.

Schaeffler, Delair to Scale European Drone and UAS Production

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Industrial partnership will ramp up Delair drone and interceptor production in France with a line that can deliver ~100 units/day by November 2026.

HydroGraph Launches Pre-Dispersed Fractal Graphene Paste

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Highly concentrated, stabilized graphene enables faster, more uniform dispersion into water-based formulations such as composite resin systems, eliminating a key barrier to commercial graphene adoption.

Touchstone Advanced Composites Tooling, Fabrication Supports Northrop YFQ-48A Talon Blue Wingman

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Cfoam carbon foam made for composite tooling design will enable rapid and adaptable engineering processes for the collaborative combat aircraft’s eventual full-scale production.

CCIC, UNNC Continuous RCF Innovation Deliver Low-Cost, Low-Carbon CFRP 

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

ContRGF is a patented re-manufacturing process that converts fragmented rCF into endless, industry-standard continuous rovings and has been validated via real-world prototypes.

Bcomp Biocomposites Featured in BMW M Concept Neue Klasse Vehicle

Hannah Mason | CompositesWorld

BMW M’s Concept Neue Klasse features Bcomp ampliTex woven flax fiber composites used to manufacture the roof among other interior and exterior components.

Radia Advances WindRunner Program With Italy, Logistics Deals

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

The developer of WindRunner, the cargo aircraft designed to transport oversized wind turbine blades and other outsized freight, renewed a government partnership in Italy and struck a new logistics collaboration with Blue Water Shipping.

Maynards Announces Two Auctions Featuring Manufacturing Assets From Natural Fiber Welding

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Two webcast auctions will feature coating and converting lines, winding systems, a 2022 double-belt press, hydraulic presses, testing equipment and microscopes.

INA respalda la coordinación estratégica en la revisión del T-MEC

| Modern Machine Shop México

La Industria Nacional de Autopartes se alinea con la estrategia de la Secretaría de Economía y las asociaciones de la cadena de valor automotriz.

In the Age of AI, Manufacturers Won’t Need Engineers. Or Will They?

Matthew Kirchner | Products Finishing

AI is rapidly reshaping manufacturing, and it will be the engineers who embrace and leverage AI tools that will rise in value.