Since its inception in 1970, AW Precision has continuously grown and evolved. The Rugby-based company is undertaking a course of continuous investment, and this has seen the manufacturer recently purchase its second Chevalier Smart-B818 III surface grinding centre from Dugard.

When it started offering ready-to-install 3D printed plastic and metal components to its customers, the job shop Klaus Stöcker metal processing initially utilized manual post processing methods. Because of the growing demand and stricter requirements of the post processing operation, the company purchased the automated systems S1 for de-powdering and M1 for the surface smoothing and homogenization from AM Solutions.

The V-Grind tool and cutter grinder from Vollmer has become one of the company’s most popular machines since its launch in 2014. Now, the company has expanded and diversified the V-Grind to cater for the increasingly diverse needs of the industry.

The new home of grinding technology, Grinding Hub, celebrated its premiere in Stuttgart in May 2022. More than 370 well-known manufacturers from 23 countries presented numerous innovations across the entire grinding technology process chain — with a clear trend towards automation and digitalisation.

Into its fifth year, Anca announced the winners of the Tool of the Year competition at the international trade show IMTS. For the first time, a Mexican company could win the prestigious award.

Despite all the headwinds in the economy, manufacturing has had a buoyant 2022, if Hurco's experience selling its machine tools is anything to go by. Order intake in monetary value was close to a record high, beaten only just by the exceptional figures posted in 2018.

As one of the fastest growing end mill and drill areas in the Seco Tools portfolio, the company’s solid-round tool reconditioning service experienced an increase in use by over 30 percent in 2022.

The surface finish of moulds is crucial, because it has a major impact on the quality of the articles produced and on the lifetime of a tool. ECP is a unique method that ensures smooth surfaces. PMM Moldes from Portugal makes this technology available to other mould makers as well.

Boride Engineered Abrasives adds a new air grinder to its line of polishing equipment. The new HTSG-3S High Torque Air Grinder is the most powerful grinder in the air micro grinder series.

Flexible production processes from batch size 1 even in harsh environments — this is where the new smart universal gripper EGU from Schunk shows its strength. It can be freely networked and integrated into highly variable production processes with little effort.