France — French digital and additive manufacturing engineering company, Multistation is going to play a key role in the distribution and support of the Meltio metal 3D printing solutions in the French market, as the prime official reseller.

Two years after the last trade fair for the metalworking industry took place, there is finally light at the end of the tunnel. Metav 2022 is set to open its doors from 8 to 11 March in Düsseldorf.

Germany — Already in 2019, on the occasion of the EMO exhibition, Lach Diamant wrote „the trend in milling is towards Monoblock“ — or, in other words, to “renounce“ profitably the use of cartridge milling cutters. The PCD-Monoblock is, in direct comparison with cartridge milling cutters, immediately ready for use — without time-consuming adjustment of the cutting edges needed.

In times of travel restrictions online tool ordering, services and training are gaining in importance. How do suppliers react to this demand? ETMM presents some of the current developments that make tool ordering faster and easier and support training efforts.

The production of die-casting, plastic mould injection tools and sheet metal working tools used mostly in the automotive industry requires extremely high precision, up to hundredths of a millimetre. The success of a part or a whole project can depend on these strict tolerances, hence, using the appropriate technology is key. Although they are not complete solutions in themselves, proper EDM machine tools are best suited to perform these tasks. This is exactly how Naton sees it, a Hungarian company that designs and manufactures precision tools exclusively for the die casting industry.

Germany — DMG Mori Aktiengesellschaft has nothing to complain about in the first quarter of 2021. In monetary terms, orders were up by around 149.6 million euros compared to 2020.

UK — NC programming errors can prove to be costly, if they result in damage to raw and completed material, the cutting tools or workholding system. While everyone involved with CNC machining understands the importance of checking and verifying the machining process before applying a cutting tool to the raw material, you should consider what are you really checking? More importantly what are you missing?

Combining several machining steps in one tool makes manufacturing as economically as possible. For example, bores can be drilled and reamed simultaneously with the Drill-Reamer from Mapal.

Germany — Cimt 2021 opened its doors in Beijing from April 12 to 17. In the largest sales market for the German industry, 150 companies are presenting machine tools, cutting tools, clamping technology, measuring technology, mould and die as well as NC controls and software.

UK — Now that CAM vendors are developing cycles for circle segment milling cutters, Walter has introduced the new MD838 Supreme and MD839 Supreme Series of end mills that can deliver cycle time reductions of up to 90 percent.