Searching for a new supplier is a risky step, one TDX took with great success. Thanks to the new machine at the toolshop, the toolmakers can now enjoy a free weekend.

Global technology company serving the plastics-processing industry, Milacron, has recently expanded its presence in Europe.

Germany – Lapping reaches its limits when processing convex or concave surfaces. A special pendulum device retrofitted to conventional surface lapping machines eliminates this drawback. By Hardy Möckl, lapping product manager at Joke Technology.

Many shops still cling to technologies they know, especially when it comes to cutting inserts. Doron Cohen, die and mould industry manager at cutting tool manufacturer Iscar, writes that living in the past could affect a company’s future.

A leading European mould maker was using a pallet-changing system to instruct its apprentices. The advantages of the system convinced the company to add similar technology from the same supplier to its tooling production.

Germany is immersed in what some are calling the fourth industrial revolution – dubbed Industry 4.0 – and machine builders, automation vendors and industrial end-users are adding to the concept.

Canada – Husky Injection Molding Systems will showcase its latest hot runner and controller technologies for the automotive and medical markets at Fakuma 2015 (October 13 – 17, Friedrichshafen, Germany).

In co-operation with the exhibitor advisory board for Fakuma 2020, trade fair promoters P. E. Schall GmbH & Co. KG have decided to postpone the 27th Fakuma to 2021.

The newly developed universal cylindrical grinding machine Kellenberger 10 is a standard machine that can be customised with a wide range of options.

ISTMA World presented its first ever online General Assembly on 30 June.