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.

The complex injection moulding tool for a car headlight's LED fiber optic cable proved to be a real challenge for the milling professionals at Color Metal in Heitersheim. They tackled this task with flying colors using the new roughing and finishing cutters from Moldino. And they did so in a significantly shorter time.

Remaining booth locations are filling up in the exhibition halls in Friedrichshafen for the 28th Fakuma international trade fair for plastics processing. All involved parties are eagerly awaiting new impetus from the world’s leading trade fair for the injection moulding industry.

With Artificial intelligence (AI) an important technology is moving from the research lab into daily use. Not fast enough, perhaps, in the view of those hoping to gain a significant competitive edge from AI. Rather sinisterly in the view of others who currently only have a vague idea of how self-thinking machines could change their everyday working lives.

Software company CG Tech will showcase its expanded range of software applications for the aerospace industry in Hall 4, Booth E92, at the Paris Air Show between 19th – 23rd June 2023.

The Chair of Microfluidics at the University of Rostock is working together with Stenzel MIM Technik (Tiefenbronn near Pforzheim) on a project to print a 3D metal injection moulding (MIM) tool. The basis of the development is the use of Aim 3D's CEM technology with an Ex-AM 255 system.

Yamazaki Mazak is to make its first appearance at May’s Emaf trade show in a further sign of the company’s strengthening commitment to its Portuguese customers.

According to DMG Mori’s Chairman of the Executive Board Christian Thönes, 2022 was a year of top performance for the machine tool manufacturer and at the same time a year of major global challenges. Despite strong headwinds, the company was able to reach and in some parts exceed the forecasts that were increased during last year.

At the recent DMG Mori open house held at the machine tool manufacturer's Pfronten factory in Germany, a new 5-axis machining centre was launched aimed at the entry-level market.

One of the key measures of sustainable manufacturing is the reduction or elimination, where possible, of waste. How can CNC simulation and optimisation software minimise or eliminate the various types of waste within a manufacturing business, with an underlying aim to reduce, re-use and recycle?