As one of the fastest growing end mill and drill areas in the Seco Tools portfolio, the company’s solid-round tool reconditioning service experienced an increase in use by over 30 percent in 2022.

Although lightweight construction helps to reduce weight, the rapid success of mere material substitution hides the fact that it's not that simple at all. Magnesium plays an important role in this context, as it is most suitable for castings.

To carve a niche in the highly-competitive subcontract market segment, EDM Precision Technologies has a specialisation in EDM technology — it is here that Mitsubishi wire EDM technology from the Engineering Technology Group (ETG) has helped set this company apart from its rivals.

3D Lab, renowned for its innovative ATO atomizers, has recently joined forces with Multistation in France. These atomizers, used to produce highly spherical metallic powders, are lauded for their stability and repeatability.

Despite volatile markets and a difficult geopolitical environment, the Swiss Steel Group is advancing its decarbonisation strategy. To this end, the company joined the Carbon Disclosure Project, making the group the first European steel producer to take part in the programme.

Together with its member companies, the FSK (Fachverband Schaumkunststoffe und Polyurethane e.V.) will present the variety of foam plastic and polyurethane solutions on one stand at K 2022.

More than 110 participants from 18 countries met in Nuremberg (and online) for two days to report on success stories and developments in the realm of sustainable plastics and the toys made from them. For the first time, the political framework conditions and goals were also discussed.

Plastics manufacturer Covestro has developed a new process for recycling polycarbonate, i.e. multi-chain plastics. In this process, plastics are converted back into their monomers, i.e. a precursor of plastics, so that they can be fed back into the production process as alternative raw materials.

Digitisation efforts in metal cutting manufacturing tend to come from machine, control or software providers. This time, a tool manufacturer is presenting new approaches to process optimisation: Hufschmied Zerspanungssysteme offers acoustic inline quality control and an associated cloud platform.

UK — Yorkshire based precision engineering company, Agemaspark, has used its latest equipment to 3D print a commemorative gift for HRH Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee.