09.12.2023 - Strack Norma continues to innovate and is pleased to announce the launch of its new in-house turned parts production facility. Customers can now benefit from this development and receive customised solutions for their applications.
The new turned parts production facility is geared towards the precise and efficient manufacture of customised guide elements and complete components for toolmaking and mechanical engineering.
09.12.2023 - New in the product range at Meusburger are configurable cutting bushes that are suited for the offset cutting punches with contour. The bushes are available in five standard contours, with the wire EDM inner dimensions configurable in increments of 0.01 mm. Thanks to the Meusburger cutting element configurator, customers can easily select their individually configured cutting bush – starting from just one piece. The cutting bushes according to DIN ISO 8977 are available with and without collar in the five contours: round, oblong hole, rectangle, hexagon, and round flat.
09.12.2023 - A new date for Moulding Expo has been announced. The International Trade Fair for Tool, Pattern and Mould Making will take place from 6 to 9 May 2025.
“Our top priority is to create ideal general conditions for our trade fairs and exhibitions, thereby ensuring the success of all stakeholders. We have managed to find a suitable date for the industry when Moulding Expo can be staged. We want to make use of this opportunity,”
10.10.2023 - The fifth iteration of the “Praxisforum Werkzeugbau” – conceived jointly by the VDWF and the WBA – took place on September 26 in Schwarzenberg in the Ore Mountains. Current trends and promising industry topics for the were highlighted in five lectures. The even focused on both the technical aspects and the social interaction of toolmaking.
10.10.2023 - Servomold GmbH & Co. KG celebrates 25 successful years as a specialist for the automation of injection mould tools. The company's roots go back to May 1998, when Bianca and Thomas Meister founded Exacon Verwaltungs GmbH in their home in the Odenwald region of Germany, offering services related to the design and development of injection moulds. Still under their management today, their company, with 28 employees, is now one of the world's most innovative and efficient developers, manufacturers and suppliers of servo systems for injection moulding. Despite its eventful history, Servomold has remained true to its Odenwald location.
10.10.2023 - AMB, International Exhibition for Metal Working, will also again live up to its reputation as the leading event for the metal working industry in 2024. This is clearly illustrated by the high level of commitment shown by the industry and the number of registrations that have already been received. A large number of companies, including market leaders and world market leaders, confirmed during AMB 2022 that they would be taking part in AMB in 2024.
12.08.2023 - Many production companies are facing a dilemma. Often, the only way that they can survive is to adopt zerodefect manufacturing that offers greater costefficiency while using less energy. This can be achieved using intelligent clamping technology – which has now developed into a machine within a machine. It makes use of sensors to detect and correct anomalies and malfunctions. EMO Hannover is supporting the industry as it moves towards zerodefect manufacturing.
12.08.2023 - In the 2022 business year, group turnover increased by 6.5 percent to 558 million euros. The first months of the current year also showed increases. Processes and structures were gradually adapted to make MAPAL fit for the future. "We have used the past few years intensively and faced up to the changing conditions in order to be prepared for the future," says Dr Jochen Kress, President of the MAPAL Group.
12.08.2023 - On October 25 and 26, 2023, SCHUNK will again host the Expert Days, an annual international and cross-industry event on the topic of "Robotic Material Removal." 70 specialists from Europe and North America will meet in Brackenheim-Hausen to exchange ideas on new trends such as AI and best practice examples and to network for future tasks.
10.10.2023 - The milling and eroding specialist exeron, based in the northern Black Forest, can be pleased about a notable strategic reinforcement of its international network: With the new partner YCM Technologies, based in Santa Fe Springs/Los Angeles, California, exeron has now found a strong partner with a longstanding reputation in the market, who is well known and is able to provide the best possible support to American customers.
Wittmann Battenfeld has intensified the cooperation between its Sales and Application Engineering departments so that it can offer customized and industry-specific solutions worldwide faster and in a more targeted way than before. To this end, special focal areas of application technology have been defined and appropriate reorganization measures taken.
“Hello, new EMO Hannover!” is the greeting that was shared at the EMO Hannover Relaunch Conference in the hybrid event hub “H’UP” on the Hannover Messe trade fair grounds. As organizers of EMO Hannover, the German Machine Tool Builders’ Association (VDW) had invited international media representatives and EMO Hannover exhibitors to a digital presentation of the new exhibition concept on September 14 of this year.
Due to the COVID 19 pandemic the important industry event, AMB in Stuttgart, cannot take place this year in its usual format. "With the AMB Technology Forum in September there is still a good reason to come to the Stuttgart trade fair grounds", says Gunnar Mey, Department Director for Industrial Solutions at Messe Stuttgart. In the AMB week from 14 September various topics will be the focus of presentations and the accompanying table top exhibition. What's planned: software and control, tool solutions, machine elements and peripheral devices, machine tools, as well as machine tool automation.
DP Technology, leaders in computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) software, announce a new update to their popular ESPRIT CAM system. The new ESPRIT includes new features such as a balanced turning cycle, as well as enhancements to existing features such as probing and additive directed-energy deposition (DED).
16.12.2020 As a company of the international Horn Group, Horn USA has found its greatest successes by mimicking the positive examples of its parent company. Just as Paul Horn GmbH has increased its manufacturing capacity for faster delivery and to better meet its customers’ requirements, Horn USA has also kept its finger on the pulse of customer needs while looking towards expansion.
voxeljet AG, a leading global technology company for industrial 3D printing solutions, is delighted to further expand its presence in India. The Indian steel casting expert Peekay Steel Castings (P) Ltd has decided to invest in the VX4000, with a Job Box size of 4,000 x 2,000 x 1,000 mm. The VX4000 system is one of the world's largest and most productive 3D printers with a build volume of eight cubic meters. Peekay Steel has chosen the VX4000 system to quickly and economically realize technically demanding projects and to expand into new business areas.