Technologies for the additive manufacturing of metal parts remain on the advance. One German mould maker adopted the technique five years ago and continues to churn out tooling inserts with the method.

There are two types of companies: those that know they have been hacked, and those that are yet to experience it. Over 90 % of all successful attacks succeed due to human weaknesses.

At Formnext 2019, Fraunhofer IWS presented a shielding gas nozzle called “Coaxshield” and a light scanner for laser powder build-welding called “Lisec”.

Germany — Used machinery dealer Gindumac has achieved a new record result with its transactional online platform for the 2021 financial year.

Italy — Over its long history, Yamazaki Mazak has set up ten production plants and multiple sales subsidiaries worldwide, with 14 of them being in Europe. The latest addition is a brand-new European Technology Center Laser in Milan, Italy.

USA — Software developer Sigma Labs, announced Jacob Brunsberg, President and Chief Operating Officer, has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the company, effective April 1st.

Digitisation and automation of skilled workers give hope that the labour market will ease soon. According to experts, however, the topic has to be viewed in a differentiated way.

UK — With the objective of turning machine tool investment on its head, DMG Mori Finance was formed in Germany in 2007 and was launched in the UK in 2017, offering funding in GBP. Since then, the company has funded investment in machine tools exceeding 100 million pounds.

For many injection moulding tasks with hot runner moulds, external control units are indispensable. Hasco hot runner offers high-grade, high-performance hot runner control units in different designs that meet the many specific requirements of the operators.

Belgium — The European Commission has imposed anti-dumping duties on imports of graphite electrodes from China. These measures follow an investigation which showed that Chinese graphite electrodes were being sold in the EU at significantly dumped prices.