To understand how to transform precious metal into high precision parts dedicated to implant dentistry and other fields of activities, we met M Pascal Rickli, CEO of Rickly Micromécanique SA, a company located in Vauffelin, a few kilometers from Bienne (Switzerland). Everything in this ultra modern company is designed to reach outstanding results. Why precious metals? In implant dentistry several techniques divide the market, single-implant that sees every tooth with its own implant or (…)

GrindTec 2010: Further internationalisation of the European meeting for this sector foreseen. The new exhibition hall creates optimal conditions for targeted further development. International show For the GrindTec it has now become almost „Business as usual“. It was already the sixth consecutive time that the leading forum for grinding technology increased both the figures for exhibitors and those for visitors. 11,070 visitors (+ 19 %) and 355 exhibitors (+ 22 %) are the current (…)

In the field of control, we saw a certain tendency to centralization in the 1990s and the development of quality assurance. If this evolution has certainly led to more quality, it has also shown the limits of the completely centralized controlling dept. i.e. bottleneck effects, loss of time and responsibility. Today, it is common to see a centralized control associated with controls in the workshops. Marcel Aubert AG is specialised in providing such solutions. Meeting in Bienne (Switzerland) (…)

Today was a special day for about 30 Swiss customers of MW Programmation, the exclusive reseller of Alphacam in Switzerland and Austria. Why? Simply because as more than 200 persons before, we (yes I had the luck to be there) had a full day of discovering of the new version. MW Programmation Active since the stone-age of CNC (1986) this company is not only selling Alphacam but offers complete solutions like DNC, training, programming for customers, development of special modules and much (…)

During the « Schleifring Grinding Symposium » that took place in May in Thun, M Ralf Kammermeir, CEO of the Group, emphasized the fact that there are opportunities to grasp while living a slowdown in the economy. This positive attitude and his availability allowed us to organize a quick interview to share some thoughts with Eurotec’s readers. Eurotec The Schleifring Group is a group that reached gross sales of € 487 million in 2008. Although incoming orders still clearly exceeded the (…)

People in the business of cutting metal with plasma arc systems can now receive the latest training on cutting and related control technologies at Hypertherm’s new Cutting Technology Centre. High-tech centre The Centre at Hypertherm’s European headquarters in Roosendaal, The Netherlands, includes a new high precision x-y cutting table, which features the recently introduced HyPerformance Plasma, the first in a new generation of HyPerformance Plasma. The HyPerformance Plasma HPR400XD is the (…)

parts2clean 2009, the 7th Leading International Trade Fair for Cleaning within the Production Process and Maintenance will take place from 20 to 22 October 2009 in Stuttgart, Germany Main asset: cleanliness The quality and reliability of components depend to a great extent upon their cleanliness. This makes the inspection of cleaned surfaces and the monitoring of cleaning and rinsing baths indispensable constituents of quality and cost optimised cleaning processes in a great variety of (…)

Ambitious plans: The Swiss LNS Group wants to expand into new markets and secure its status as a one-stop-shop for the machine tool industry. In line with this strategy: New plant for the production of bar feeders in Turkey – EMO in Milan will witness LNS-innovations in bar feeding and chip and coolant management systems “A crisis is always also an opportunity” While the world financial crisis slows down all the different segments of the machine tool industry, the Swiss company LNS plans (…)

When we speak about plastic with people coming from the mechanical industry, very often it is considered as poor quality and low importance material. Nevertheless, in every field of activity more and more complex parts are replaced or complemented by plastic. Frontiers between metal and plastic are not that clear and the rise of new material and techniques open a wide new spectrum to designers from every field of activity. A changing world If the world of metal seems quite static in term (…)

Yesterday I had the opportunity to went to André Gueissaz SA, a company that is offering a wide range of services from engineering to molding, plastic injection and mounting of devices. I saw clearly there that there is no closed border between metal and plastic. In fact that’s rather the contrary, the two worlds are collapsing into each other. Plastic is no longer just a cheap product I’ve seen there some parts that are used in medical technology, food, measure and not in throwaway stuff. (…)