Support pillars serve to support mould plates and intermediate plates in order to bridge large gaps between the mould risers. Depending on the size of the injection moulding tool, any deflection when filling the cavities can lead to major problems.

It will not be possible to stop the rapid rate of climate change without the steel industry transitioning to Green Steel. The Swiss Steel Group has published a White Paper that outlines strategies to decrease the ecological footprint of steel production.

The companies Henkel and Prodways announced a collaboration to bring Loctite resins to Promaker LD machines for industrial parts manufacturing.

With two new machines arriving for saw blade manufacturers; Thomas Wenger, the Product Manager for Carbide Saws and a seasoned expert with 24 years of service at Vollmer discusses the concept behind the two new machines that will supersede the CHD270 and CHF270 saw blade processing machines.

The Arburg subsidiary in France officially opened its new building on 14 September 2002 in Tremblay-en-France. The subsidiary in France is the company’s oldest foreign location.

Since the last edition of the World of Tooling study from 2018, the competitiveness of the tooling industry and the general macroeconomic situations in the respective countries has transformed. What are the key challenges that the industry is facing?

Rachel Eade MBE will become the first woman to take the helm of the UK Metals Council (UKMC), which initially began life 20 years ago as the Metals Forum and today represents more than 11,100 companies and supports more than 200 billion pounds of UK GDP.

Supply chain management is the integrated process-oriented planning and control of the flow of goods, information and money across the entire value and supply chain from the customer to the raw material supplier.

For five days, a total of 64,298 visitors frequented the fully booked Stuttgart fair grounds during AMB. The 1,238 exhibitors from around the world — with around 25 percent hailing from outside Germany — presented a variety of innovations, products, services and concepts.

In 2022 K in Düsseldorf will once again be one of the most important information and business platforms for the global plastics and rubber industry. The trade fair has comprised the challenges facing the industry in three distinct leading themes.

Following the promising return of the in-person event last year, Formnext wants to continue this development in 2022: More than 690 exhibitors with a booked gross exhibition space of over 50,000 m2 have registered, the organisers report.

From 13 to 16 June 2023, the international trade fair Moulding Expo will take place at the Stuttgart exhibition site. Over the course of four days, the top manufacturers in the industry will showcase the best that European tool, pattern and mould-making and the associated supplier technologies have to offer.

At IMTS in Chicago, Enidine is showcasing its new Corrosion Resistance Series (CRS) of stainless steel shock absorbers designed to absorb energy in harsh environment applications.

Mencom’s new Mixo right-angled high-current rectangular connector modules are designed to minimise space installation requirements with a compact 90° connection that removes bending of large diameter wires and ensures reliable 200 A rating performance.

Support pillars serve to support mould plates and intermediate plates in order to bridge large gaps between the mould risers. Depending on the size of the injection moulding tool, any deflection when filling the cavities can lead to major problems.

The melting of thermoplastic materials requires temperatures of several hundred degrees Celsius. In many cases, thermal separation of the injection-moulding machine from the mould mounted in it is essential, if only for safety reasons.

3D printing company Stratasys has announced that Evonik is its third and newest material partner for the P3 technology-based Origin One 3D printer. More materials are on the way, the company stated.

The companies Henkel and Prodways announced a collaboration to bring Loctite resins to Promaker LD machines for industrial parts manufacturing.

Bofa International will be returning to the Formnext exhibition this year to showcase its range of Additive Manufacturing and 3D printing filtration and atmosphere management systems.

Additive Manufacturing company Desktop Metal has qualified the use of IN625 for the Studio System, a turnkey metal 3D printing platform that offers customers the easiest way to print high-performance metal parts in low volumes for pre-production and end-use applications.

Following the introduction by DMG Mori of the 5-axis DMU/DMC 65 H Mono Block, the company has launched a second model in the series, the DMU/DMC 85 H Monoblock, with double the working volume.

Maximum productivity and sustainability, with flexible machine solutions for many different production tasks and sectors — this is how the Emag Group summarizes its focus for this year’s presence at the AMB from September 13 to 17 in Stuttgart.

Highest-level toolmaking, plastics technology and assembly from a single source — that’ s what Werkzeugbau und Kunststofftechnik Mayweg offers. The company has three locations, 250 employees and 33 million euros in sales, and a fully automated milling and electrical-discharge-machining cell from Exeron that helps meet even the highest customer requirements for precision, speed and economy.

After two years of corona-related absence at trade fairs, Licon is presenting its new developments in the area of machine tools and automation at AMB Stuttgart 2022, Germany.

The Hypermill CAD/CAM suite from Open Mind is a highly regarded end-to-end complete solution in the mould and die industry, as it also covers aspects such as electrode manufacturing and wire EDM. Now the introduction of 5-axis radial machining takes center stage.

At this year’s IMTS Show, Verisurf Software is demonstrating a universal approach to measurement and inspection. The company’s software provides measurement and inspection workflows with inspection plans that can be created once and used across the manufacturing enterprise on any portable or fixed CMM.

The limits of computer-aided simulations are far from exhausted. At the Altair Technology Conference, the simulation specialist presented a variety of interesting applications with a focus on the automotive industry.

Simulation systems of CNC functionalities by means of control models are widely used. When they reach their limits, simulations based on the real CNC core can provide help. But how are the required application data implemented in the simulation scenario?

Convinced that the global challenge of more sustainable production can only be solved by working together, Molding Solutions — a business within Barnes — is bundling its expertise with partners and will be represented with its mould and hot runner technology and controls at the booths of Arburg, Netstal, Yushin, Fanuc, and Krauss Maffei.

Injection moulding tools with difficult demoulding techniques are a speciality of the Warburg/Germany based mould maker, FB Mold Design. They successfully tackle this demanding job with the help of standard mould components and hot runner technology from Hasco.

At this year’s K 2022, Incoe will be presenting new modules that add new functions to the hot runner system: Heat-Inject the dynamic on-the-spot mould temperature control and 4.0-Sentinel, the system for recording and monitoring process data via the hot runner.

At K 2022, Ewikon will showcase its expanded range of functions of its smart Control assistance system for networked injection moulding production with an energy monitor.

To highlight the numerous solutions it offers for milling free-form surfaces, tooling manufacturer Horn, points to a recent application involving the machining of a plastic injection mould for mass producing the lens for a headlamp.

Gühring has expanded its grooving and parting-off to include a new grade with a blade width of 3 mm for parting-off stainless steel materials. The System 222 expansion adds to the existing indexable inserts for steel materials.

Users who want to improve their milling techniques, productivity, performance and tool longevity can dos so by participating in the Walter ‘Mastering Indexable Milling’ online event on 7th October.

At AMB, Lach Diamant is amongst others presenting its Monoblock-PCD-milling cutter for HSC/HPC aluminium machining. This cutting solution features the latest direct cooling technology that ensures optimal machining of GRP, CFRP and non-ferrous metals.