When Is Automation Suitable? Standard Product. A standard product in large volumes with a common material type, thickness, and size remains the most obvious application. A consistent range of material...
Increasingly metal fabricators are turning to automated equipment to reduce production downtime and costs, streamline manufacturing, minimize material handling and address a shortage of skilled labor....
The Bradbury Co., Moundridge, Kan., a manufacturer of metal roll forming and processing equipment, has promoted COO David Cox to president. Cox, who joined the company in 1997, also has served as gene...
Adapting Machining Centers A few suppliers of machining centers offer models that are suitable for composites, either by themselves or after modification. One such is Haas Automation Inc. (Oxnard, CA)...
Metal fabrication skills meet needs of composites manufacturing in a range of high-tech operations. Business is booming in aerospace and defense, fueled by record demand for aircraft and by advances i...
Parts produced by additive processes will require final machining or hand finishing, but allow significant flexibility in the manufacture of custom, short-run, complex or complicated-to-manufacture pa...
AMD is First Semiconductor Manufacturer to Qualify TC-5121 for Use in Manufacturing Dow Corning Corporation’s Electronics and Advanced Technologies group today announced the global availability ...
A draft amendment to the individual income tax law will be submitted to the national legislature for its first review next week, and experts suggest the starting point should be raised to 2000 yu...
Multinationals are set to get equal access to the domestic corporate debt market in a move that’s being hailed as a major breakthrough in the opening of the financial services sector. The decisi...
Heavyweight stocks reversed a downward trend today thanks to the de-freezing of 3.4 trillion yuan ($460.70 billion) of subscription funds and encouraging news from the State asset administrator. ...
Chinese Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan said Tuesday that state-owned enterprises (SOEs) administered by the central government should grow more competitive to play a larger role in the economy. "Centra...
Paratus Industries, Buffalo, N.Y., a four-year-old builder of custom pullers, cutters, and other downstream machinery for PVC profiles, has introduced a random embosser for hollow fence and rail profi...
Brampton Engineering Inc., Brampton, Ont., recently received an order for the world’s first 11-layer blown film die as part of a complete 11-extruder blown film line. It will be delivered in the...
New software for a fixed array of capacitance gauges provides 100% coverage of webs up to 24-in. wide and a color-coded topographical record of film thickness. The new MultiChannel Array system from S...
A new family of Adsyl PP sealing resins from Basell North America, Wilmington, Del., is designed to run on the latest generation of high-speed BOPP film lines. Based on Basell’s Catalloy technol...
Plasticating systems expert Dr. Eberhard Gruenschloss of the IKT University in Stuttgart, Germany, recently developed the first helically grooved bimetallic barrels for abrasive materials. He invented...
The first full-scale line for MESIM (mechanical simultaneous stretching) has been built by DMT Technology GmbH in Salzburg, Austria, and is available for customer trials. DMT, whose U.S. office (DMT A...
Machine builder Ematik GmbH in Magdeborg, Germany, is the latest firm to adapt its single-screw extruders (25 to 75 mm diam.) to use permanent-magnet, synchronous torque motors. While this is a growin...
A specialized single-screw extruder with a mixing chamber in the middle compounds and extrudes sheet containing up to 70% recycled tire rubber, mineral fillers, long glass, or natural fibers like wood...
Improved clarity and cost competitiveness, added to its inherent heat resistance, are reviving OPP’s prospects in hot-fill barrier containers. But hot-fill PET containers are raising the bar wit...