France — 3D Printing company Stratasys has announced that it is has strengthened its network of partners in France. In conjunction with this expansion, the company has also launched a dedicated e-store to provide faster and easier ordering of materials and consumables for customers.

Finding the right supplier is not always easy. But the company Mersen didn’t have to search long. Their ideal partner is located directly in their region. A well-coordinated team and a perfectly functioning workflow — what more could you want? With Meusburger as their supplier, Mersen benefits from many advantages and years of successful cooperation.

The harder the mould steel, the better the surface finish quality on plastic products. This theorem explains plastic injection moulders' increasing need for special steels, which excel thanks to their homogeneous hardness. This is why Deutsche Edelstahlwerke developed Formadur 400.

"Soft Hand" is German Robotics collaborating robot, represented as an anatomically shaped hand.

Software supplier Machine Works announced the release of Machine Works 8.4. Enhancements include computation of safe holder profiles, multiple simultaneous holder and tool collision checks, improved simulation performance through collision check buffering and extensions to design part comparison Render Query.

Designed to simplify operations and increase manufacturing productivity, integrating this drill into the machining process can reduce machining cycle times by up to 50 %.

Supplies of standard parts, Starck Norma, will present its new products for tool and mould making at Kuteno, the subcontracting fair for the plastics processing industry, from 10 to 12 May in Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Germany.

UK — Agemaspark won the Digital Engineering/Technology Award for their innovative work using 3D printing to develop a new technique to improve the efficiency of a mould tool by as much as 20 percent and reducing cycle times for multi-impression mould tools.

UK — Intech Additive Solutions partners with and licenses Polygonica from Machine Works to enhance their Metal 3D Printing Ecosystem.

Germany/Belgium — European Bioplastics, the association, representing the bioplastics industry in Europe, is pleased to announce the appointment of Maria Neguț as new Head of EU Affairs. She assumed her position on 14 March 2022 and will be based in Brussels.