To streamline its post processing operations, PROTOTEC, a company specialized in 3D printing, purchased the new S1 system from AM Solutions. The general manager was impressed by the operational flexibility and excellent cleaning performance of this machine. PROTOTEC, located in Attendorn in the German province of North-Rhine Westfalia, is known as one of the first and oldest 3D printing companies in Germany. With different printing systems the company provides tailormade, high-end (…)

For many roll feed applications, determining the length of the web material is an important part of the machine process. This can be as simple as a requirement to measure the overall length of a web or, for instance, to precisely align multiple printed layers or synchronise a stamping operation on a section of the web material. Wachendorff´s LMS series length measurement systems combine its ruggedised industrial shaft encoders with an integrated measuring wheel that is friction driven by (…)

After the break due to COVID in 2020, the international trade fair for surface technology started yesterday in Stuttgart. Until June 23th, around 220 exhibitors from 18 countries will present solutions, products and services and show what the current trends are in the surface treatment industry. As an interdisciplinary technology, surface technology is at home in all industries. The spectrum of industrial sectors from which visitors come to SurfaceTechnology GERMANY is correspondingly broad. (…)

EPHJ, the international high-precision trade fair, has completed its 20th anniversary edition with a clear increase in numbers compared to the 2021 edition and a quality of visitors welcomed by the 700 exhibitors. As the doors of the world’s only trade fair dedicated to high precision watchmaking, jewellery, microtechnology and medicine close, the organisers are smiling. "We knew that visitor numbers would be higher than in September 2021, when the health crisis ended," explains Alexandre (…)

Arburg has been working intensively on the topic of sustainability and resource efficiency for a very long time. As a supplier of Allrounder injection moulding machines, the machine manufacturer is increasingly active in evaluating climate protection activities along the entire value chain for its customers. On the basis of ISO TS 14067:2018, a standard that defines a product’s greenhouse gas emissions or product carbon footprint (PCF), Arburg has investigated how the PCF and specific energy (…)

Following the successful relaunch of parts2clean in October 2021, the event is back: From 11 to 13 October 2022, parts2clean – the leading industry event for industrial parts and surface cleaning – will take place at the Stuttgart exhibition center. With their wide range of products, solutions and services, numerous market leaders from Germany and abroad will present their offerings for applications-oriented, cost-effective cleaning. The changes taking place in numerous industrial sectors (…)

Demanding die-cast components, such as structural components in the automotive sector (megacastings), place special requirements on the temperature control, in particular on the cooling of so-called hotspots. The jetPulse system from REGLOPLAS offers a reliable and economical solution for cooling hotspots in a die casting die with pinpoint accuracy and reliability. The spot cooling of so-called hotspots in die-casting dies is an established process for improving the quality and mechanical (…)

An Italy-based specialist serving the optical industry is benefitting from the precision and high-quality motion of NSK ball screws in its innovative lens cutting machines. The machines produced by MEI System have revolutionised optical manufacturing processes with the most advanced milling technologies, guaranteeing extremely high quality and maximum productivity. Excellent lens quality offering a combination of attractive style and perfect vision is a prerequisite for providing eyewear to (…)

Digital solutions optimise processes and offer support for challenges such as sustainability and the shortage of skilled workers. If you want to turn data into information, there are many major and minor parameters that need to be adjusted. These include consistency and unified languages. For a complete picture, it is also important for the maximum number of participants in the process chain to think and act digitally. As this article shows, AMB 2022 in Stuttgart will provide a platform (…)

Orders received by the German machine tool industry in the first quarter of 2022 were 44 per cent up on the same period last year. There was a 44 percent increase in orders both from within Germany and from abroad. "Orders for our industry continued to flow in during the first quarter of this year," commented Dr. Wilfried Schäfer, Executive Director of the VDW (German Machine Tool Builders’ Association), Frankfurt am Main. "They were only 8 percent below the figures posted in the record (…)