PTG Customer Care, the cross company division within the Precision Technologies Group of Milnrow, Lancashire that deals with all post delivery requirements for Holroyd, Crawford Swift and Binns and Berry machines, has developed a solution for customers finding it difficult to source replacement parts for machines with CNC controls over 10 years old by offering a state of the art new CNC control upgrade. By definition, the unthinkable is something none of us wants to think about. And, in (…)

Next spring the Medical Cluster and the RMS Foundation in cooperation with the Swiss Society for Surface Technology SGO-SST, will bring the fourth edition of the event [MEET THE EXPERT] Material and Surface Technology for Implants to the market. This event will take place on April 23-24, 2012 at the Congress Centre Kursaal Interlaken. The goal of the conference is to offer a platform for discussion and knowledge transfer between individuals active in the implant field. Subject of the (…)

Delcam will demonstrate its latest developments in feature-based programming of mill-turn equipment with FeatureCAM 2012 at the Euromold exhibition to be held in Frankfurt from 29th November to 2nd December. FeatureCAM will be shown on a second Delcam stand within the turning area of hall 9 (B139), as well as on the main Delcam stand in Hall 8 (H57). FeatureCAM 2012 incorporates a range of enhancements to enable faster and easier programming, and produce more efficient toolpaths to give (…)

Siams is a trade show which was born from the industry and has grown on fertile ground of innovations and extraordinary developments. In 2012 again, the entire region of the large Jura arc (from haute-Savoie to the South of the Germany) will be rewarded in this trade fair located in the geographical centre of all microtechnologies. The organizers announced yesterday that the halls will be full again next spring. Francis Koller – President, Laurence Gygax – Sales and customers relation and (…)

It is neither a single spindle lathe nor a classical multispindle one and also not a classical transfer machine. It benefits from a very small footprint and can be fed by coil or with a classical bar feeder and reaches high productivity outputs. It’s a wolf rotary table machine. Meeting at EMO with Ms Ilona Steinecke Sales manager of the German company. The TSM 280 machine is based on a rotary indexing principle and has been designed specifically for the production of parts for medium to (…)

Imoberdorf AG established that there was a need for a small machine on the market in order to concentrate the high productivity demanded by many companies into the smallest possible area. This has led its engineers to successfully harness state-of-the-art control and drive technologies from the wide and varied world of machine tools to maximise the productivity per unit area of a rotary transfer machine. We had the luck to meet Toni Imoberdorf, CEO at EMO to discover that new machine. (…)

At the recent EMO in Hannover the Swiss company presented quite a lot of novelties regarding machines and solutions, today the producer unveils a new website, evolution or revolution? We called Brice Renggli Head of Marketing to chat about it. At first glance the new website seems full of information but we can find our way quite efficiently. Those willing to find quick information about a machine will be satisfied as well as those looking for investor relations information. But there is (…)

OPS-Ingersoll, located in Burbach/Germany, operates world-wide as a leading technology partner for the mould- and die-industry at the highest stage. At EMO the company presented a lot of novelties and it’s time to present the Eagle MultiChangelinear automation concept: nonstop operation, error-free during constant operation. As a full-range supplier, OPS-Ingersoll offers the new concept, where the advanced technology combination is perfectly joined with a well-engineered automation (…)

No less than 360 applications for booths at the GrindTec 2012 (as per 28.10.2011) have already been received by Project Manager Joachim Kalsdorf, only 40 less than in the record year 2010. But one thing is already clear: The GrindTec 2012 will be considerably larger (from March 14 to 17, 2012). According to Joachim Kalsdorf: “At the moment we are planning on 30,000 m² gross area, 5,000 m² more than last time. This is caused in particular by the machinery manufacturers, many of whom have (…)

In the recent Fakuma a small machine grasped my attention. This very compact injection machine is actually dedicated to microtechnology and realize parts with one or two components between 10 and 400 mg. Indeed that’s not an usual way to characterize parts in "classical microtechnology" were we do parts doing chips. Nevertheless this machine can produce true microtechnology parts in many different material (including CIM, PIM and MIM). The formica Plast range comprises two machines, the 1K (…)