Tokai Carbon Acquires CIP Group
Tokai Carbon has acquired 80% equity in Carbon Industrie-Produkte GmbH and Carbon Mechanik GmbH, the companies composing the CIP Group. As a result, the CIP Group has become a Tokai Carbon subsidiary....
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K Show Tops Even Optimistic Expectations
Companies from the plastics and rubber industry arrived at the world’s top trade fair for their sector, K 2007 in Düsseldorf, with an optimistic outlook inspired by good and improving ...
Rapid Prototyping to Be Mec-Spe Highlight
Two minutes to make a set of dentures, a little longer to produce a custom pair of shoes—such performance speed is the result of a technology called rapid prototyping (prototipazione rapida) tha...
Laser Cutting Machine is offered with RF-excited source.
TruLaser 2030 is available with TruCoax 3200 laser resonator, which features diffusion-cooled cutting beam and promotes productivity via stable, solid-state design. Suited for sheet metal processing, ...
FO4020NT 6 kw Laser – An Ideal Solution for Thicker Material
The FO4020NT 6000 watt laser is designed for manufacturer’s who want to process something other than just sheet metal. An ideal solution for thicker material (generally up to 1.25" mild ste...
Laser System cuts up to 1.25 in. thick steel/.750 in. SS.
Model FO4020NT 6,000 W laser features shuttle tables, automatic focal and assist gas control, and automatic nozzle changing device. Offering 3,150 ipm max X- and Y-axis speed and 2,362 ipm max Z-axis ...
Turning Tool helps locate micro-boring bars in holder
Multidec® MICRO-BORE System incorporates angled back that locates bar less than .0004 in. against a positive location pin in bar holder. Solid carbide bars range in size from 1-8 mm, and have thru...
Siemens Simatic? PCS 7 Enhancements Open Advanced Process Control to Everyone
Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc. today announced that it has enhanced Version 7 of its SIMATIC® PCS 7 Process Automation System to include a comprehensive set of easy-to-use advanced process ...
Automation System offers advanced process control features
Suited for various process plants, SIMATIC® PCS 7 v7 is available with auto tuning and gain scheduling, predictive control, fuzzy logic, and neural network control. APC functionality is delivered ...
Slitting Tool System combines punch/die inserts and holders
Designed for Trumpf style punch presses, Mate LongLife(TM) includes punch inserts manufactured from high-speed steel and available in 5.00 x 56.00 mm and 5.00 x 76.20 mm rectangular sizes. Punch inser...
Extremely tough and resistant to chemicals
Feet are involved in around a fifth of all occupational accidents. Therefore, wearing the right footwear plays a key role in cutting the risk of foot-related injuries at work. Industrial shoes are ava...
Two new PC+ABS blends for bodywork parts
Bayer MaterialScience AG is adding two new mineral-filled PC+ABS grades – Bayblend® DP T90 MF-20 and Bayblend® DP T95 MF – to its range of polycarbonate blends for bodywork parts ....
Cimatron Holds Its Annual Global Resellers Conference in China
Representatives from around the world gathered in China in October for the annual conference of subsidiaries and resellers of Cimatron, a leading global provider of CAD/CAM software systems for toolin...
SPE, SPI Agree on NPE 2009 Conference
An agreement reached between the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) and the Society of the Plastics Industry Inc. (SPI) will lead to SPE presenting a technical conference at SPI’s NPE 2009 inte...
New colors and effects for injection-molded components
Stilettos has a rich red glow that gives components made of the polycarbonate Makrolon® a red lacquer or patent leather look. Leverkusen, October 2007 – Color has an appeal that provo...
Polycarbonate and polyurethane used in a new solar air collector roof insulation system:
Thermal insulation system that recovers energy and cuts costs Compared to other solar collectors, the new solar air collector roof insulation system puren Bomatherm® from Überlingen, Germany-...
Frigel Firenze expands manufacturing capacity
Frigel Firenze has quadrupled its manufacturing capacity at its Italian headquarters, pushed by strong demand for what it says is its environmentally friendly cooling technology. The Scandicci, Italy-...
Smoothie maker liquidises PLA trial
Smoothie drinks firm Innocent has said the UK’s waste infrastructure isn’t ready for polylactic acid (PLA) packaging, which it is now abandoning in favour of recycled PET. The company had ...
Nexavar? Becomes First and Only Approved Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Europe
Bayer HealthCare AG and Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that the European Commission has granted marketing authorization to Nexavar® (sorafenib) tablets for the treatment of patients wi...
The 49th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology
Endpoints Met for RECORD1 and RECORD2 Trials in Total Hip Replacement Surgery Berlin, November 9, 2007 – Findings from three phase III clinical trials will be presented in the plenary session an...