At the EMO show in Milano, I’ve met the owners of Vertx, a next to Stockholm (Sweden) based company, as well as Ehn&Land and Tornos representatives. The company signed at the show for a new DECO 7a machine to face its increasing demands in high precision small parts and parts specialized for fiber optics. Young and dynamic In 1997, MM Akerman and Eriksson decided to create their own company and performed a spin off from a business already active in the same field. That was clear at the (…)

The Swiss manufacturer Wandfluh AG develops and produces high-grade oil hydraulic control and closed-circuit control devices as well as digital amplifier – and control electronic circuits for world-wide utilisation. Wandfluh presents its new proportional screw-in valves with slip-on coil. The exchangeable coil significantly simplifies the logistics, because the solenoid coil can also be retrofitted. The various alternatives make the proportional screw-in cartridges a very flexible system. (…)

Next issue of Eurotec is about to be sent (and all the articles will be available for download vers soon). As usual we’ve tried to provide useful information to help our readers know how they can win. As you will see in the editorial, I ask some questions about EMO and exhibitions... what is certain is that the exhibition ground of Fieramilano is perfect to house such an event. . The content is as follow: Editorial: As usual I ask some questions and try to put the light on some hot (…)

During EMO 2009 in Milan Spinner presented its newly developed TTC-Series, a twin-turret CNC-turning-center in a modular design, which can be equipped up to two spindles as main and sub-spindle, live tools and Y-axis in upper turret. With a bar capacity of 42 or 52mm and a max chuck size of 200mm it can be used for bar machining as well as chucker. Two SPINNER-designed speedy turrets with 2x12 tools can work simultaneously on main- and sub-spindle without interference. As usual for (…)

Avicenne is a unique orthopaedic market research company, providing for over 15 years unrivalled advantages to its clients in the orthopedic industry. Being well placed in every level of the industry (OEM, Clinics and hospitals, Contract manufacturers and outsourcing, Raw material supplies as well as Authorities and Regulators), the company is able to identify early trends and new technologies affecting the orthopaedic market. . Report just released The newly printed report can be (…)

The New Zeta collet clamping system offers the market a much better advantage to solve most collet clamping problems. Collets are used in a lot of different variations such as; static and rotating tools, multi-spindle heads, Swiss-turn lathes, angle-heads in different sectors like automotive ,aircraft, various metal, medical, wood and plastic manufacturers. In each of these fields no one offers, until today, an absolutely safe collet clamping system with the addition of the possibility to (…)

Mr Marcus Burton, currently Managing Director of Yamazaki Mazak UK Ltd, will be the new Group Managing Director Europe from 1st January 2010. He succeeds Dr David Jack who has been responsible for Mazak’s European business since 2004 and who has reached retirement age. Mr Tomohisa Yamazaki, President of Yamazaki Mazak Corporation, comments that continuity has a high priority within Mazak. “Mr Burton has sound knowledge and understanding of the machine tool business and the Mazak (…)

In our modern world where we take it so much for granted that we can be in Switzerland eating a kiwi grown in New Zealand, taking photographs using a camera made in Japan or enjoying a red wine produced in South Africa, it is easy to forget that these seemingly everyday actions are rendered possible by a seamless system of logistics which is anything but banal. People speak of production units on extended manufacturing runs in Germany being prevented from working because a sub-contractor in (…)

Encountered at EMO, Daniel Dünner, Director of Walter Dünner SA Moutier (Switzerland) showed us a new system designed to replace a complete hydraulic group. This innovation is launched jointly with a new hydraulic actuating cylinder and an automatic clamping system for jaws. These novelties present true benefits both in terms of precision and of environmental respect. How does it work? The pressure multiplier is a simple device that uses pneumatic to generate hydraulic power. This small (…)

At the EMO we discovered some grinding solutions to meet both demands for small and precise parts and for very affordable simple grinding solutions. Norma microTool, the surgery machine The ideal solution for production of small parts is Norma microTool : Micro small cutting tools for electronics, watchmaking or other micro-mechanical applications. Very important also the growing market of tools and other products for the medical industry. Milling cutters, ballnose cutters, drills with (…)