Xjet's nano particle jetting technology solves the manufacturing and performance issues of passive beam steering for super-fast antenna applications.

Germany — From 12 to 16 October, companies from the plastics industry will meet in Friedrichshafen for Fakuma. Almost 1500 exhibitors will present their product ranges at the international trade fair for plastics processing. The Association of German Tool and Moldmakers (VDWF) will also be present with its joint stand in 2021.

At Fakuma, Mold-Masters introduces a wide range of new technologies in the field of hot runners, controllers, auxiliary injection and co-injection systems.

Many companies have to deal with cheap copies of their own inventive products. Aktion Plagiarius has found its own original way of fighting plagiarism: Each year, they award the best and most unscrupulous copies.

UK — Jaguar Land Rover has started manufacturing its own press tools in-house for the first time following a £ 1.7 million investment at its Halewood plant. The new facility will now produce the tools required to make body panels for future Jaguar Land Rover models globally.

Italy — At EMO Milano, Umati was connecting more than 50 machines from all over the world, almost half of them remotely. Using the updated Umati dashboard, anyone interested could follow live to see what these machines, connected via the standardised OPC UA for Machine Tools interface, were doing and how they were working.

Germany – After three years, Aachen invites to its Machine Tool Colloquium again. The "Internet of Production for Agile Enterprises" is the main theme of sessions and guided tours at the 29th edition of the conference.

UK — The British supplier of cutting tools, oils and lubricants CIS has joined forces with a tech spin-out from the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre to accelerate the adoption of Smart Factory data-analytics to improve machining shopfloor productivity.

When long-established cutting tool manufacturer AA Tools was acquired by new owners in 2014, the objective was to modernise the shop floor equipment with the very latest CNC machine tool technology. For the bespoke cutting tool manufacturer, the acquisition trail included a CNC tool and cutter grinder, a 4th-axis machining centre, a live tooling turning centre, an EDM drilling machine and a Mitsubishi MV1200R wire EDM machine from the Engineering Technology Group (ETG).

The Italian machine tool market has seen stark declines in recent years, but that hasn't stopped one company there from expanding. Based in Milan, FFG Europe first bought a number of Italian producers and then pushed into Germany, where it’s still on the hunt.