UK — More than 150 machine tool manufacturers worldwide are already adopting the Big Kaiser BBT spindle interface technology that is available from Industrial Tooling Corporation (ITC) under license. The company recently put its equipment to the test against leading industry rivals to underpin the underpin the superior performance claimed by the manufacturer.

We caught up with IMC President and CEO Jacob Harpaz at AMB in Stuttgart to chat about how the cutting tool supplier Iscar is performing after U.S. billionaire Warren Buffet bought the remaining 20% of the IMC International Metalworking Companies last year, seven years after snatching up 80% of the company.

Additive Manufacturing replaces numerous traditional manufacturing processes, facilitates the development of new products and business models and helps establish new value-added and supply chains. Are these claims about the possibilities of Additive Manufacturing real, and in which industries have they already been successfully implemented?

Germany — Orders received by the German metal forming technology manufacturers in the first quarter of 2021 were nine percent up on the previous year’s figure. Orders from Germany fell by twelve percent. Foreign orders, however, were 25 percent higher than in the previous year.

UK — Confidence amongst British SME manufacturers is at its highest level for two years according to the latest Manufacturing Barometer, carried out by SWMAS (the South West Manufacturing Advisory Service) and the Manufacturing Growth Programme (MGP).

Automation specialist Festo has been awarded the Gold Catalog Seal by Cadenas for its comprehensive digital 3D CAD product catalogue.

USA/ Europe - Milacron will be displaying its Advanced Plastics Processing Technologies (APPT) featuring Milacron, Ferromatik and Uniloy product branded injection, PET, blow and extrusion offerings, as well as Milacron’s product brands Mold-Masters, DME, Tirad and Cimcool at K 2016 in Düsseldorf, Germany.

The term Industry 4.0 has been used throughout the manufacturing sector since 2011 – the so-called fourth industrial revolution that promises manufacturing companies a profit through digital networking.

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.