MAN Group says its net sales for the first nine months of 2007 rose 12% year-on-year to €10.28bn (US$14.88bn), thanks to a sharp increase in order intake and order backlog. Sales from German...
Audi has confirmed that a gasoline-electric version of its Q7 SUV is nearing production. The OEM premiered a prototype version at the Frankfurt motor show in September 2005. Audi’s con...
Bratislava, Slovakia, is the site of a technology and training centre that was opened officially on October 25 by the machine tool builder Makino. Bratislava, the country’s capital, was chosen a...
Gibbs and Associates, the developer of GibbsCAM® software for programming cnc machine tools, and Kubotek, the creator of geometry-based KeyCreator® CAD software, have teamed up to develop inte...
In 2008, The Beijing Olympics which has attracted worldwide attention will welcome its grand opening in Beijing, China. Meanwhile, to comply with the flourish demand of machine tool market, machine to...
In 2008, Shanghai International Machine Tool Fair (EASTPO) will celebrate its 10th anniversary. After over a decade of development, the 10th edition of Shanghai International Machine Tool Fair (EASTPO...
AFM, the Spanish association of machine tool manufacturers, is pleased to have had its representative Javier Eguren appointed president of CECIMO, the European Committee for Cooperation among the Mach...
Kubotek USA, the wholly owned subsidiary of Kubotek Corp. and developer of geometry-based CAD software, along with its Brazilian partner RCTask, has entered into a licensing and services agreement wit...
“Ukraine is one of the strongest markets for Husky in Eastern Europe, and we are pleased to improve our presence in this growing region,” said Milan Cvjetkovic, vice president of Central/E...
The dynamic city of Toulouse, France, home of Airbus and the hub of France’s aviation industry, was the backdrop for the 16th Euro PM Congress & Exhibition, the leading annual European powde...
The temperature control system consists of three components: heating-cooling channel in the mold, coolant and temperature control unit To achieve optimal mold temperature control, the three components...
The actual cooling time already begins with the filling of the cavity. However, freezing of the melt should be avoided in the filling phase. The main quantity of heat is exchanged after the molding is...
Co-injection molding is the term used to describe the process of feeding several melts, one after the other, into one mold during the injection molding process. The melts should make contact with each...
Part design: A comfortable office is the norm today, and this includes having a swiveling office chair, mounted on castors, to sit on. If the office is fitted with a long-pile carpet, however, moving ...
In the production of plastic components melt is injected into the mold cavity. After completion of the injection phase and the hold period the molding is cooled down to the temperature for removal fro...
A fully revised and updated product selector is now available from Allied Maxcut Engineering Co. Ltd. (AMEC) as a free download from the company website or as a compact disc. The electronic tool is of...
At the recent EMO trade fair in Hannover, Germany, Gibbs and Associates, developer of GibbsCAM software for programming cnc machine tools, issued a joint press release with the Infimatic Controls divi...
The symposium “New Machine Tools for Tomorrow’s Production,” which took place on October 15 and 16 in Karlsruhe, Germany, with around 170 participants, marked the formal conclusion o...
Heavy duty CNC hydraulic tube benders are high performance draw bending machines, designed for the accurate and repeatable bending of tubular components. The TubeMartTM PB range combines years of prov...
DDC Servo Press and heavy-duty Computer Numerical Controlling (CNC) machines, produced by JIER Machine-tool Group Co, were shown to more than 300 major users from automobile, aerospace, and metallurgy...