The latest edition of Industrial Tooling Corporation’s (ITC) annual product catalogue has now been published and is available to view online. Now reaching its seventeenth edition, the new catalogue is crammed with new product enhancements and developments from the cutting tool manufacturer.

German machining centre manufacturer Roeders has introduced a new production centre, the RXU 2000, for manufacturing large components requiring a high degree of precision.

Moulding Expo is this year’s most important trade fair for the European tool and mould making industry. The event offers an opportunity to come together to explore current trends and challenges. 400 exhibitors have registered, with more than a third coming from abroad.

Now available from Floyd Automatic Tooling is the new Crazy Mill Cool Micro series of micro end mills from Mikron Tool. With micro machining applications increasingly commonplace, this high-performance end mills could be a game changer for the industry.

Saving energy, conserving resources and reducing operating costs is a major challenge for tool grinders and thus also a task for their machine and component suppliers. One example is the ultra-fine filtration of coolant offered by Vomat.

In micro-injection moulding, the size of the production is increasing as we move forward in time and now often runs into millions. Scientists at the Kunststoff-Zentrum (Plastics Centre) in Leipzig/Germany (KUZ), together with Hasco, developed a technology for economical production on conventional injection moulding machines.

By 2024 drink bottles made of plastic must be produced in such a way that the cap is firmly attached to the container. This requires new design concepts that are also reflected by the machines used to manufacture the moulds.

The forthcoming Vollmer V-Days event is back from 18th to the 20th of April following an enforced Covid hiatus. Spread over three days, the event promises to deliver a unique knowledge transfer opportunity where attendees can learn all the latest insights on the sustainable and efficient sharpening of rotary tools and circular saws.

Market changes and mutual dependencies between value creation stages require both new technical and economical solutions. How can companies face these challenges with greater resilience? How can we exploit the benefits of increased cost effectiveness? These questions are being posed by the transnational Euprogigant project. The aim is to ensure smart, sovereign use of data for production and bring this to Europe.

At Rapid.Tech 2023 in Erfurt, AIM3D, supplier of 3D printers using the CEM (Composite Extrusion Modelling) process, will be putting the Exam 255 3D printer centre stage at the trade fair. The Exam 255 system combines high precision 3D components with high build speeds for additive manufacturing.