The combination of high-precision machine tools and special diamond cutters offers an economically and technically convincing alternative for machining dies for plastic parts with particularly high surface quality requirements such as optical lenses.

The new flat guiding stock by Meusburger promises better sliding properties thanks to DLC coating.

Inovatools introduces its online shop Inoshop. The shop is available on iOS, Andorid and, of course, your browser.

Rapid market developments and innovations challenge the adaptability of tool and mould making. With its new Mikron Mill P U series of 5-axis simultaneous milling machines, GF Machining Solutions provides these manufacturers with future-proof flexibility.

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Germany – Heller’s CP 4000, a twin-pallet change, horizontal-spindle, 5-axis mill-turn centre debuted in April at Mach 2016. The 800 mm x 800 mm x 1.045 mm centre is equipped with a new rigid PCU (power cutting universal) HSK 63 spindle.

The fax and telephone era in the steel and metal trading business is coming to an end. The winners will be the traders who have been quick and purposeful in the digitisation of their processes. The development will lead to fully automatic steel supply via the Internet of Things – with or without steel traders.

Germany/ Switzerland - Process safety and energy efficiency are hot topics in hot runner technology. Precision parts and parts with special surface quality for example are particularly demanding. Modular, low-maintenance systems are required for productive, multi-cavity tools.

USA/Germany - The partnership between the Boeing Company and Germany-based Haimer Group has been strategically expanded to a joint membership at the OMIC R&D institution.

A version of the hybrid machine is to be displayed at Euromold 2013.