Baselworld just closed its door and soon EPHJ will open. Both are dedicated to watch industry... Many people often equate passion with foolishness and, yes that’s possible sometimes. But in our industrial world, passion equates often with rare bird, pressure, precision and delivery. In order to realize next issue that will be released for EPMT/EPHJ in Lausanne (Switzerland), I’ve had the opportunity to meet up with passionate owners and CEOs of companies working all or part for the watch (…)

Industrie & Stim, Lyons (France) All the participants in this biennial French industrial event were reassured by the large number of visitors to the fair this year. Both French and foreign industrialists demonstrated that projects do exist out there and that investment is the key to economic revival. In a general context fostering ideas like ’nothing is going right’ and ’it will never work’ Industrie Lyon had succeeded in maintaining the confidence of its exhibitors who invested (…)

Global, strategic cooperation Gildemeister Aktiengesellschaft has signed a cooperation agreement with the Japanese machine tool manufacturer, Mori Seiki Co. LTD. (Nagoya). The cooperation covers production, purchasing and the development of machines, as well as sales and services in selected markets. This strategic partnership allows both companies to extend their business activities. They will both benefit from short and long-term mutual advantages. The aim of this “win-win“ partnership (…)

Eurotec is a magazine with passionated people working and we are all convinced about the good positioning of the magazine... but what is best than some customers feed-back to learn more? I’ve put a new page called What they think about eurotec. It was really interesting to discuss with all these responsible of companies and learn what THEY THINK is important with Eurotec. Ithank them for the time. Any experience with Eurotec you would like to share? Do not hesitate to send me any comment (…)

The mechanical watch is returning to a position of importance alongside the quartz watch, the latter equipped with fully electronic movements and display. As for mechanical watches, they comprise traditional parts and movements, in the most noble sense of the term. The principle actually has not really changed since the invention of watch movements which tell the time. The same cannot be said for production techniques which, always evolving, no longer have much in common with past methods. (…)

Designer and integrator of robotized automation solutions for the German speaking countries, Robotec Solutions AG wishes now develop its activities towards French speaking areas. To sustain this strategy, the company can count on Dominique Lalut. Benefitting from a more than 25-year know-how with the most important robots manufacturers in the world, this French native is well known in the French speaking Switzerland industries and joined the sales team of Robotec Solutions AG. From now on, (…)

Rapid News Publications PLC, organisers of MM Live, is delighted to announce the return of its two Headline Sponsors — Rainford Precision Machines and SmalTec International — for the 2009 event being held at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry, 20-21 October 2009. Highly targeted show MM Live 2009 is the only UK event dedicated to Micro, Precision and Nano Manufacturing and the endorsement of UK-based Rainford Precision Machines and US-based SmalTec International underlines the importance of the (…)

To speak about the importance of the customers, about services offered on the market and even on how to present the company and its products, we’ve met Frédéric Springmann, CEO of Springmann S. A. This company sells solutions to manufacturers, for instance Traub and Index inSwitzerland and in Austria. Clearly there are some things to be learned with them. You take part in a large number of exhibitions despite the high costs of these events. What are the objectives of your participation in (…)

Turning-Days™ Villingen-Schwenningen 2009, with over 10,000 square metres of exhibition space and close to 260 exhibitors from Germany and abroad, is now a major specialist fair for turning technology. For the first time includes a panel discussion on the red-hot topic in the sector. New admission system reduces queues at the pay-desks. Extra-long exhibition hours with a valuable viewing circuit for visitors even after closing time. A specialist exhibition The organizing team of the 4th (…)

STUDER is one of eight companies that will be giving technical presentations at the "Schleifring Grinding Symposium 2009": In order to meet all needs, STUDER will present solutions for universal-, internal-, and production cylindrical grinding. Additionally, opportunities will be presented in the universal and production divisions on how productivity can be increased: combination machining, special software and simple loading solutions reduce the machining process considerably. Some topics (…)