JetCAM Names Dealer for Russian Market
JetCAM International has signed Delcam-Ural, based in Yekaterinburg, Russia, as a new reseller for its sheet metal and aerospace CAD/CAM software in the Russian market. Delcam-Ural has 15 years of exp...
DP Tech Will Power Sodick EDMs with Esprit
The computer-aided-manufacturing (CAM) software developer DP Technology, maker of Esprit CAM software, and Sodick Co. Ltd., a leading builder of electrical discharge machining (EDM) equipment, have si...
An Innovation on Mould Production by Ninghai Enterprise
For a disabled mould, cover a kind of special material, and further repaired by a laser, it will come into use again. This new technology by Ninghai Shengyuan Laser Technology Co., Ltd has made disabl...
Old exhibition complex of Canton Fair to be decommissioned
An old exhibition hall of the Canton Fair, or China Import and Export Fair, will "retire" in the October session of the biannual event, organizers said on Saturday. Wang Junwen, Canton Fair&...
Automated CNC laser cutter is very flexible
Trumpf showed its compact, flexible TruLaser 2030 CNC 3.2kW sheet material cutting and profiling cell with automated work handling and higly durable laser resonator. Trumpf’s TruLaser 2030 was s...
Plasma-arc system cuts intricate components
Wilkinson Star launched at this week’s MACH 2008 exhibition a multi-gas mechanised plasma-arc cutting power source shown performing simulated cutting of complex and intricate components. Wilkins...
The Value of High Density Data
A minimum of 300 data points are required to approach the correct result for form. Coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) come in many types, but one important area of distinction is the method of data ...
Reducing or Maintaining Cycle Times with Mold Coating Science
No matter the size of a tool, taking into consideration your GPM within your tooling’s cooling systems and using electroless nickel coating is an effective way to improve or maintain desired cyc...
Machine Tool Probing for Moldmaking
It’s time to look at the probe as a device that can literally be used as a Virtual Operator to perform many of the everyday, time-robbing processes that eat into your profitability. As any reput...
High-Tech Design Strategy Clinches OEM Business
Durakon Industries made its mark in automotive by developing thermoformed bedliners for pickup trucks. The company’s Duraliner brand is such a staple of the aftermarket that it’s become a ...
Mixed Response For Malaysian Exhibitors At Canton Fair
The first phase of the spring Canton Fair ended Sunday on a mixed note for Malaysian exhibitors with many lamenting a drop in both international and local buyers due to tight security screening. Accor...
Ice Blasting Molds
The technology for cleaning contaminated surfaces, particularly in molds, with blasts of dry ice pellets has been around for nearly two decades. Boeing uses it to clean injection molds. Starbucks clea...
China: Contracts signed at Guangzhou Fair total US$25.43 billion
Guangzhou, China, 23 April – The first phase of the 103rd edition of the Chinese Product Import Export Fair, better known as the Guangzhou Fair, ended Sunday with export contracts signed to the ...
Canton fair reports 1.8% export rise in first session
The 103rd China Import and Export Fair, the largest yet, recorded 25.43 billion U.S. dollars worth of export deals during its first session, which ended on Sunday. That was a r...
Slowdown, rising yuan squeeze exporters
It’s a tough choice this year for exporters at the trade fair: fewer orders or paper-thin profits. The yuan is stronger and the world market is weaker, the result of the unfolding credit crisis....
Motorised system checks packaging products
A Mecmesin motorised ‘entry level’ test system, combined with a digital force gauge, evaluates quality control parameters of packaging products in tension and compression Leading force and...
Small weathering chambers test materials
Unitemp has introduced a range of low cost test chambers for the simulation of primarily of weather exposure on materials, plastics and metals This innovative range is manufactured by the Italian Cofo...
Oscilloscope PCI Express card
Strategic Test has announced the UF2e-2031 oscilloscope PCI Express card with 100 MS/s 8-bit ADC’s that operate in an interpolated mode to acquire two channels at 200 MS/s for increased versatil...
European production and machine tools go on show
With the emphasis continuing to grow on production equipment and machine tool sales to the former ‘East Bloc’ countries in Europe, Mike Page reviews important 2008 manufacturing exhibition...
Multi-component injection moulding processes
A limitation to achieving the aspirations of designers has been the ability to process multiple parts or materials into a single component when moulding plastic assemblies, writes Jon Hobden The advan...