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2019-09-17 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Student Wins Third Mastercam Contest

The winner of the third annual Innovator of the Future (IOF) contest for the 2007-2008 school year is Bernie Sievers, a student in the Advanced Manufacturing Programme at Vincennes University in Vince...

2019-09-17 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Hermle House Exhibition Breaks Records

More than 2,000 visitors from Germany and the rest of Europe, Japan, Korea, Russia, Israel, China, and Thailand recently attended the latest traditional in-house exhibition of products from Maschinenf...

2019-09-17 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on European User Groups Like Actify Product

Actify, the market-leading supplier of digital design communication solutions with more than 500 manufacturing companies as customers and 8,000 licenses on active maintenance, has introduced a securit...

2019-09-17 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Sandvik Coromant Now ISTMA Global Partner

Sandvik Coromant has been named a member of the Global Partner Programme of the International Special Tooling & Machining Association (ISTMA). The company is the first cutting tool supplier to par...

2019-09-16 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Asiamold: Entree to an Economic Hotbed

Asiamold 2008, the Chinese international trade fair for mould making and tooling, design, and application development, is coming to Guangzhou (Canton) in Guangdong Province this September. As the show...

2019-09-16 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Haas Opens Tech Centre in Belgium

Haas Automation Europe’s latest Haas Technical Education Centre (HTEC) opened May 15 at the Vrij Technisch Instituut (VTI) Sint-Lucas, Oudenaarde, in eastern Belgium. The new facility brings the...

2019-09-16 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Oil Driving UK Industrial Price Increases

Following analysis of the results of its May 2008 Industrial Trends Survey, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) warned that the price of UK manufactured goods would rise steeply in coming mont...

2019-09-15 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Software raises CMM measurements speed

Wilcox Associates at IMTS will be showing its PC-DMIS 4.3 3D CMM software giving dramatic improvements in measurement speed and support for probes and vision measurement. Wilcox Associates will be int...

2019-09-15 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Beware of hearing overprotection in factories

The risks of overprotection are very real when dealing with hearing conservation, for example, a worker may not hear the warning signal of a truck or piece of heavy equipment. Hearing protectors are u...

2019-09-15 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Maintenance management software updated

Maintenance Connection releases version 3.5 of Facility Maintenance and Asset Management Software with a powerful feature enabling users view their KPI values over time. Maintenance Connection has rel...

2019-09-14 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on All-electric injection moulder has 1g

An all-electric injection moulding machine, producing parts of a shot weight under 1g at a running cost of 0.6kW/h, has solved a problem in making complex push cap tops. Ricoh UK Products purchase of ...

2019-09-14 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on CAM system reduces set-up time from 1h

UK injection mould maker reported that since using Edgecam CAM system for NC part programming, it had reduced downtime by 30-50%, and cut machine set-up from 1h to 3 min. Kavia Moulded Products said i...

2019-09-14 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Second CNC tool measuring machine added

A second CNC tool measuring machine will help unplug an inspection bottleneck at a tool maker created by increased customer demand for documented inspection reports. Specialist tooling manufacturer an...

2019-09-13 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Automation control system increases

To help system designers and manufacturers comply with forthcoming Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC, Festo has released a diverse range of pneumatics safety technology. Festo has released a diverse rang...

2019-09-13 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Optimize Barrel Temperatures For Barrier Screws

Extruder operators often don’t compare the barrel-zone temperatures to the recommended processing temperature for the resin being run. It isn’t uncommon to see extruder barrel-temperature ...

2019-09-13 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on High speed horizontal machining centre

At IMTS, MAG Hueller Hille will demonstrate a high speed, horizontal machining centre with axis travels of 90m/min and a B-axis speed of 80 rev/min. At the USA’s IMTS 2008 machine tool show, MAG...

2019-09-13 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Precision Molder Takes on LSR

Liquid Silicone Rubber (LSR) injection molding makes up just 10% to 15% of U.S. medical or automotive applications that are also served by high-consistency silicone rubber (HCR), EPDM, latex, natural ...

2019-09-12 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Qualifying an Outside Molder? Look at the Tool Room

If custom molders were judged on curb appeal alone, this one would always be flush with work. Appointed in colonial brick encasing large smoked-glass windows and surrounded by balmy landscape and a la...

2019-09-12 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Cutting lubricant supplier advises on

Lubricant supplier, Rocol, and precision engineering company, Lonestar LWD, worked together to devise a customised service to ensure every requirement of the UK’s HSE was met. Lonestar LWD Preci...

2019-09-12 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Change Is Good

Once again, the industry rolls with the punches as MME showcases the latest and greatest in products, equipment and technologies designed to manufacture molds in the quickest, most efficient ways poss...