Medtec Europe, the preeminent medical technology platform that brings together leading experts, buyers and sellers from across the medical technology industry, showed a record attendance this year in Stuttgart, Germany, with a 7% increase in overall visits. The event attracted 6,816 attendees over three days, 25% of whom were senior level decision makers and 65% of whom had purchasing power. In addition, the new business matchmaking programme enabled 551 meetings and 3,498 business matches (…)

Big Kaiser, a global leader in premium high-precision tooling systems and solutions for the metal-working industries, today announced the C-Cutter Mini, an ultra-fast compact chamfer cutter. The C-Cutter Mini is designed for multi-functional cutting tasks, including chamfering, back chamfering and face milling. Compared to competitors’ products, the tool’s market-leading speed and feed rate capability has the potential to slash machining times by up to 85 per cent. The tool’s innovative (…)

The LPKF ProtoLaser R is the first com-pact laboratory laser with an ultrashort-pulse laser source. Its unique strengths are most obvious in the cold processing of thin layers. In a re-cently presented tech paper, it demonstrated its precision on a special material. With a laser spot size of just 15 µm, it was able to structure and cut 0.2-mm-thick carbon tape for LTCC manufacturing. The tech paper presents the test layout as well as the results in the form of microscope images with (…)

The jury has reached its decision: After several days of assessing thousands of products from all over the world, the Servoline received the distinction “Red Dot”. With this press line, Schuler has created an outstanding design that the expert committee for the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2017 has recognized with the internationally sought-after seal of quality. “Our new Corporate Product Design aims to imbue our systems with an especially high-quality appearance for premium customers (…)

Medtec Europe will once again provide over 7,000 attendees and more than 600 exhibitors from 70 countries the opportunity to share, learn, and discover opportunities and solutions that will advance the medical technology industry. Taking place 4 - 6 April 2017 at the Messe Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, Medtec Europe is the preeminent medical technology platform showcasing the key trends and insights across the entire supply chain of the medical technology industry. With a comprehensive (…)

EuroBLECH 2016, held in autumn last year, was regarded as highly successful by the international sheet metal working industry. One of the main themes at the 24th International Sheet Metal Working Technology Exhibition was the overall trend for digitisation and automation of production processes. The innovative spirit in the industry sector led to a 2% increase in net exhibition space and visitor numbers compared to the previous event. The exhibition survey results which have just been (…)

CNC machine tools manufacturer Okuma welcomed 200 international customers from the aerospace industry to their Aerospace Centre of Excellence (ACE) in Paris this February. The open house included live machining of aerospace components using the latest technologies, such as a newly developed swarf milling function for difficult-to-cut materials. In keeping with the company’s strong Industry 4.0-focus, all of the machines on display were network-connected to mimic production in a (…)

Sigma Engineering exhibits for the first time with their own booth at MECSPE in Parma, Italy. It takes this opportunity to introduce its Sigmasoft® Virtual Molding technology to a broad public and to widen its activities in the Italian market. The technology helps to optimize existing injection molding tools and processes as well as to virtually test innovative processing and tooling concepts. Fig: The mold and complete process for the 2-component LSR egg cup were calculated upfront in (…)

Mr Luigi Galdabini, President of CECIMO and Managing Director of Galdabini SPA, was one of the renowned panellist at the first European Industry Day that took place on 28 February 2017. He supported SMEs’ view and reported the challenges that the industry faces accessing new technologies. This intervention was in line with the “Joint Declaration for an ambitious EU industrial strategy” signed by 125 European manufacturing associations, which calls the European Institutions to define and (…)

Big Kaiser, a global leader in premium high-precision tooling systems and solutions for the metal-working industries, today launched the Level Master, a portable two-axis electronic leveling tool for fast high-precision machine setup. The Level Master simultaneously detects the level on both horizontal axes. This drastically cuts the time and costs associated with the traditional ’eye-splitting’ bubble leveling method, which requires two levelers to be used side-by-side. With this new (…)