One way to bring welding to the masses is to present it in an attractive manner.

Germany - Dr. Dirk Sellmer, head of research and development at Mapal, discusses innovation and how additive strategies are shifting design principles towards new product solutions.

United States – The Fair Friend Group (FFG) will bundle Esprit CAM software with FFG machines all over the world. DMG Electronics decided to sell Esprit software bundled with their machines in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Benelux.

USA – Combining cavity sensors with hot runner valve gate control yields new applications and greater process gains. Bill Rousseau, director applications and technical services from Synventive Molding Solutions, analyses each technology and reviews their combination.

Melt Design Inc., a manufacturer and global supplier of high-performance hot runner systems with a broad range of associated components, has added to its product line a dual-stage plastic-melt-filtering device designed to remove contaminants from the melt flow during injection moulding. The innovative device eliminates the need to clean out mould gates and saves further hours of production that might otherwise have been lost to material contamination.

Korea – Taegutec’s new indexable gundrill and deep drilling heads feature trigonal inserts that evacuate chips without damaging the surface finish.

AMPCO Metal, an integrated producer and distributor of specialty copper alloys, employs proprietary manufacturing processes and complex alloy compositions to give its Ampcoloy® 944 copper-silicon-chromium alloy for mould making unique properties. Distinctive for being free of beryllium, this strong copper alloy offers mould makers an attractive balance of hardness (28 HRc on average) and thermal conductivity (156 W/mK, five to six times greater than P20 tool steel and six to seven times greater than H-13 tool steel), and an electrical conductivity of approximately 35% IACS.

For the sixth time, the international Formnext Start-up Challenge has recognised young companies from the world of additive manufacturing for their business ideas and technical developments.

Double the output volume while using the same tool and machine size? To ensure that this idea does not remain an illusion, some injection moulders rely on stack moulds.

Lantek is currently developing some macros for ACE Ceiling Products to help it in the manufacture of specific families of parts.