Micronarc Alpine Meeting (mAm 2015) – The Microproducts Annual Meeting, 6th edition will take place from February 1 to 3, 2015 at Villars-sur-Ollon. Following in the success of the first Five editions, The Micronarc Alpine Meeting 2015 will continue its focus on Microproducts. The mAm 2015 program is on-line. The final speaker slots will be confirmed shortly. 5 reasons why you should not miss mAm 2015 : Excellent speakers and program. Single track format. Ideal conference size for (…)

The international days of watchmaking marketing (JIMH) will address the watchmaking design and how to build up an icon. With this evocative theme, the 18th edition will take place on December 4, 2014, in La Chaux-de-Fonds (in French). The unmistakable watchmaking rendezvous of the end of the year has just presented the outline of its program. Quick glance on the themes Esthetic conventions and design How to understand new design trends How is design perceived in the watchmaking world – (…)

Till tomorrow night all eyes in the MEM industry will be on Basel at Prodex and Swisstech on the banks of the Rhine. With its cutting-edge infrastructure, the new exhibition hall promises to provide the perfect platform. The MEM industry is constantly faced with new challenges as a result of rapid, dynamic and increasingly complex manufacturing processes. Greater efficiency across the board is therefore the order of the day. The hype surrounding 3D printing and “Industry 4.0” also shows no (…)

Opened yesterday in Basel, the two trade shows for the MEM sector and its supplier industries are hosting even more exhibitors than two years ago. With 325 exhibitors, the Prodex exhibitor floor is completely booked, surpassing the fair’s outstanding results from 2012. Swisstech also has a full house, with its 550 exhibitors occupying the entirety of the new Hall 1, including around 25 percent of international exhibitors. A successful start I discussed with many exhibitors yesterday and (…)

Stefan Eichler, the Director of Rimann, is well known on the Swiss market, particularly in microtechnology as specialist of the valuation of the machining residues by solid/liquid separation. Recently, his company has developed its activity in the treatment of air (liquid/ air separation) by selling Coral products and we could bet that Rimann will quickly be known on the Swiss market in this area too. After Prodex, it is also as a saxophonist that Stepan Eichler will be recognised. He (…)

The Fakuma 2014 went exceptionally well for Arburg. The Lossburg-based machine manufacturer was the only exhibitor to present the entire spectrum from additive manufacturing to injection moulding. The main focus was on the next step in the production efficiency strategy: the cost-effective production of plastic parts – from one-off parts, multiple-variant small and medium batches, through to mass-produced items. “The trade fair in Friedrichshafen has traditionally been an excellent (…)

EuroMold, the specialist trade fair for moldmaking and tooling, design and application development, will take place from 25 – 28 November 2014 in exhibition halls 8, 9 and 11 in Frankfurt am Main. This year the trade fair is again expecting more than 1,000 exhibitors, along with an increase in international representation, with around 40 countries represented. Traditionally, the majority of the companies are moldmakers and tool manufacturers. Furthermore, there is already a high level of (…)

It may be just over eighteen months away but planning for MACH 2016 is already well under way, with companies large and small already securing their spaces for the Exhibition. The MTA, which owns and runs the Exhibition, has brought forward the process of allocating the space on the floor. That will give companies from industrial sectors which have not traditionally been brought into the exhibition more time to get involved in Britain’s biggest industrial event. An area that has been (…)

The Medical Cluster and SFL are holding the first international conference at the interface between medtech and pharma on 30-31 of October 2014 in Zurich. Historically, there has been a clear dividing line between companies of the Medtech and Pharma industries. However, recent years have seen a trend towards the combined development of drugs, devices and in vitro diagnostics (IVDs) that encompass characteristics of both drugs and devices/IVDs. This two-day conference is a unique concept (…)

DEMAT GmbH and Wohlers Associates, Inc. have announced the 16th Annual International Wohlers Conference, to be held at EuroMold 2014 in Frankfurt, Germany. This year’s conference, titled The Truth Behind the Additive Manufacturing Supply Chain, will occur on Thursday, November 27. Past conferences have focused on the most important developments and trends in rapid product development, additive manufacturing (AM), and 3D printing. The EuroMold trade fair is November 25-28 at the Exhibition (…)