Themed “Shape the Future in Colour”, Mimaki Europe will showcase advanced colour additive manufacturing technology at Formnext.

Additive manufacturing is revolutionising mechanical engineering. This also has a major impact on IT tools, from design to manufacturing execution systems.

Arburg's Freeformner 300-3X celebrated its world premiere at Formnext 2018. The machine is built for the additive manufacture of complex, resilient functional parts in hard/ soft cobinations.

To further boost its far-reaching global presence in metal additive manufacturing, DMG Mori announced at Formnext 2018 that it is taking a 30% stake in the Indian company, Intech.

Germany – The Komet Group will be presenting a number of new developments and innovations under the banner of “Total Productivity Solutions”.

DPS Software, IT system house with focus on digital solutions for the manufacturing industry, presents itself at the Intec 2019 with three main topics: Design solutions with Solidworks CAD and production-related solutions in CAD, manufacturing software CAM using SolidCAM as well as the simulation of factories and manufacturing plants with Visual Components.

Moduleworks announces the release of its 2018.12 CAD/CAM software components. With this latest release, Moduleworks launches its new components for Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM). There are also new features for 5-axis, 3-axis and 2-axis machining, machine simulation, the MultiXPost post processor and the NC Editor.

Germany – Finke Formenbau manufactures moulds and injection-moulded parts for premium cars. The company's order books are already full for the next six months. This is a result of the efficiency and quality the company achieves, among other things, high-quality EDM and HSC technology.

Megatron becomes exclusive global distributor for the “SpaceMouse Module” 3Dconnexion and Megatron expand cooperation

Hard times for foundries: The boom of 3D metal printing is threatening their market shares for metal-cast components. They need to modernise their production processes.