Toolmaking Success to Be Colloquium Focus
“We know that German companies make the best tools, but we have to convince our customers of the fact!” This recent statement by an eminent supporter of the German toolmaking industry give...
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Aluminium Mould Alloys Offer Strength in Plastics Forming Applications
With constant support provided by European research centres, Alcan Aerospace, Transportation and Industry has developed a full range of aluminium alloys specifically for mould making. These plate prod...
Better Production Online Source Helps Shop Augment Customer Base
Traditionally, most of the business for one Mansfield, Pennsylvania shop came from a nearby foundry. Because some of that machining work is now being done overseas, the workload has become sporadic in...
Development Teams Can Coordinate
The Moldflow Communicator™ 1.0 software module is a free product from Moldflow that allows distributed product development teams to visualize, quantify, and compare Moldflow Plastics Insight®...
Thin, Coarse-Fibre Polishers Make
Boride Engineered Abrasives has fabricated advanced composites incorporating proprietary fibre in order to create the CNB line of polishing stones for mould and die makers. CNB products represent coar...
Mold-Masters Ranked High in Innovation
The Patent Board, a highly regarded industrial review board that has rated companies on innovation since 1968, has put the hot runner supplier mold-Masters in the number 60 slot of its latest quarterl...
Toolmaking Success to Be Colloquium Focus
“We know that German companies make the best tools, but we have to convince our customers of the fact!” This recent statement by an eminent supporter of the German toolmaking industry give...
BEC Hosts Industry/Technology Summit
The wind power and machine tool industries were driving forces for business at Cumbre Industrial y Tecnológica 2007 (the 2007 Industry and Technology Summit), which was held at the Bilbao Exhib...
Simpoe Secures First-Round Funding
Simpoe SAS, a French software developer specializing in plastic injection moulding simulation solutions, has completed first-round funding for its latest expansion plans. This financing round is joint...
TopSolid CAD/CAM Receives High Ranking
In a recent PLM (product lifecycle management) report published in France (“Marché Français du PLM 2007”), Missler Software was classified as the “2nd CAD and 2nd CAM m...
Finding The Most Profitable Export Markets
Possessing the right information upfront gives you the ability to peer into the future and more accurately predict possible outcomes for your latest ventures abroad. Acquiring the right information is...
China encourages home-made products, putting pressure on neighbors
Asian countries are increasingly watching jobs and manufacturing migrate to neighboring China. China is reducing its reliance on imports from Southeast Asia as it makes more of the higher-value-added ...
China’s Growth May Exceed 11%, Adding Rate Pressure
China’s economy probably expanded more than 11 percent for a third straight quarter, raising the likelihood of more interest-rate increases to prevent a flood of export cash from fueling asset b...
China: Hardware tools market distribution and trends
Hardware tool industry is never a sunrise or sunset industry considering its character. It is an industry of evident traditional feature at home or aboard. So how is the market space and competition a...
The international marketing analysis of injection molding machine
The total value of export of injection molding machine in 2006 is USD5.46 billion, among which German who has taken up over 20% of the total value is the top in scale, and so enjoys much advantage in ...
TCT 2007 Hailed As a Success
By attending last month’s TCT 2007 trade fair in numbers exceeding 2,000, the UK design and manufacturing community made the latest edition of this time-compression technologies show a resoundin...
D-M-E Sharpens Global, Regional Focus
The global mould technologies resource D-M-E has announced a management reconfiguration that will enhance the company’s ability to operate as a single worldwide entity while still focusing indiv...
TopSolid CAD/CAM Receives High Ranking
In a recent PLM (product lifecycle management) report published in France (“Marché Français du PLM 2007”), Missler Software was classified as the “2nd CAD and 2nd CAM m...
Simpoe Secures First-Round Funding
Simpoe SAS, a French software developer specializing in plastic injection moulding simulation solutions, has completed first-round funding for its latest expansion plans. This financing round is joint...
New CAD/CAM Milling Software Brings
The Mastercam® X2 Mill CAD/ CAM software module introduces significant new capabilities for milling, including numerous additional and enhanced 3D tool paths, added support for SolidWorks assembly...