During the last CECIMO meeting, the CECIMO General Assembly elected Marcus Burton as Chairman of the Market Intelligence Committee for a period of two years. As the successor of Frank Brinken, Vice-Chairman of Starrag Holding AG, Mr Burton will guide the Market Intelligence Committee of the European Association that represents more than a third of the world machine tool (MT) production. He will lead the CECIMO Economic Department, which provides up to date information to the member (…)

Messe Stuttgart acquired the 100th exhibitor for CastForge with Rosswag GmbH. The trade fair for castings and forgings with machining takes place from 5 to 7 June 2018 at the Stuttgart trade fair centre. The participation of numerous companies and associations from abroad highlights the international importance of the event. "We were very excited over the last few days to see which company we would be announcing as the 100th exhibitor", states Gunar Mey, Department Director for Industrial (…)

Arburg will for the first time take part in the PIAE (Plastics In Automotive Engineering) Europe 2018 congress. Some 1,500 participants and more than 110 exhibitors are expected attend this prestigious event hosted by the German Association of Engineers (VDI) at the Congress Center Rosengarten in Mannheim on 14 and 15 March 2018. During around 80 specialist presentations by automotive manufacturers and suppliers, plastics experts from the automotive industry will provide comprehensive (…)

Netzsch, one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of pumping technologies and their systems, has purchased a ‘special version’ Zenith 400 helical profile grinding machine from Precision Technologies Group (PTG) company, Holroyd Precision. The Zenith 400 will be installed and commissioned at Netzsch’s manufacturing facility in Brazil during early 2018. Netzsch will use the Zenith 400 to produce a range of pump screws. These will then be used in a number of the company’s innovative pumping (…)

The AMB project team is starting the trade fair year 2018 with a new line-up: After the departure of Sabrina Sledzinski, Florian Schmitz is moving to AMB with immediate effect. As Project Manager, Schmitz will in future be responsible for the area of machine tools for the international exhibition for metal working. He completes the trade fair team with Romy Arnold, Project Manager for precision tools and peripherals, and Nadine Trester, Project Coordinator for AMB. The AMB Project (…)

3D printing equipment and machinery will be one of the main attractions at ADDIT3D, International Exhibition of Additive and 3D Manufacturing, which will hold its third edition from 28th May to 1st June 2018 in parallel with BIEMH. Its coinciding in time and space with the largest platform devoted to Industry 4.0 in Spain will give the event a wider range of equipment and finished components. The event also takes place within a favourable context, with significant increases in the sale of (…)

Cutting tool and tooling system specialist Sandvik Coromant has extended the functionality of its InvoMilling software. The latest version of this user-friendly CAD/CAM solution for fast and simple NC programming offers more possibilities when manufacturing gears on universal five-axis machining centers. As of late 2017, the software will also enable customers to produce straight bevel gears and herringbone gears. InvoMilling exploits machine tool kinetics for the effective and flexible (…)

Laser blanking lines don’t require dies, but can’t match the productivity of conventional blanking lines: This commonly held assumption has now been proven false based on real production data collected by a Schuler customer. Over the course of the first year in production, Schuler’s newly developed systems outperformed the contractually agreed upon yields by 20 to 100 percent, depending on the specific part produced. This means that, in some cases, output was double the contracted amount. (…)

During the third SIGMASOFT International User Meeting at the beginning of November SIGMA Engineering presented the SIGMA Award for the first time. Rewarded projects show a consistent use of SIGMASOFT Virtual Molding to reduce costs or necessary resources significantly. The first winners are GÜNTHER Heisskanaltechnik and Speedturtle. For years SIGMA Engineering GmbH, Aachen, Germany, finds projects at their customers, in which the full potential of modern simulation approaches has been (…)

Eisele has developed a ball bearing rotary connector. This new addition to series 14 of the Eisele BASICLINE can rotate freely around its own axis. The new rotary connector offers a solution for conveying compressed air from a rigid component to a rotating component. Eisele developed a new ball bearing rotary connector that conveys compressed air of -0,9 to 16 bar from a rigid component to a rotating component The new rotary connector, which is designed for an operating pressure range of (…)