Medtec Europe will once again provide over 7,000 attendees and more than 600 exhibitors from 70 countries the opportunity to share, learn, and discover opportunities and solutions that will advance the medical technology industry. Taking place 4 - 6 April 2017 at the Messe Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, Medtec Europe is the preeminent medical technology platform showcasing the key trends and insights across the entire supply chain of the medical technology industry. With a comprehensive (…)

EuroBLECH 2016, held in autumn last year, was regarded as highly successful by the international sheet metal working industry. One of the main themes at the 24th International Sheet Metal Working Technology Exhibition was the overall trend for digitisation and automation of production processes. The innovative spirit in the industry sector led to a 2% increase in net exhibition space and visitor numbers compared to the previous event. The exhibition survey results which have just been (…)

CNC machine tools manufacturer Okuma welcomed 200 international customers from the aerospace industry to their Aerospace Centre of Excellence (ACE) in Paris this February. The open house included live machining of aerospace components using the latest technologies, such as a newly developed swarf milling function for difficult-to-cut materials. In keeping with the company’s strong Industry 4.0-focus, all of the machines on display were network-connected to mimic production in a (…)

Sigma Engineering exhibits for the first time with their own booth at MECSPE in Parma, Italy. It takes this opportunity to introduce its Sigmasoft® Virtual Molding technology to a broad public and to widen its activities in the Italian market. The technology helps to optimize existing injection molding tools and processes as well as to virtually test innovative processing and tooling concepts. Fig: The mold and complete process for the 2-component LSR egg cup were calculated upfront in (…)

Mr Luigi Galdabini, President of CECIMO and Managing Director of Galdabini SPA, was one of the renowned panellist at the first European Industry Day that took place on 28 February 2017. He supported SMEs’ view and reported the challenges that the industry faces accessing new technologies. This intervention was in line with the “Joint Declaration for an ambitious EU industrial strategy” signed by 125 European manufacturing associations, which calls the European Institutions to define and (…)

Big Kaiser, a global leader in premium high-precision tooling systems and solutions for the metal-working industries, today launched the Level Master, a portable two-axis electronic leveling tool for fast high-precision machine setup. The Level Master simultaneously detects the level on both horizontal axes. This drastically cuts the time and costs associated with the traditional ’eye-splitting’ bubble leveling method, which requires two levelers to be used side-by-side. With this new (…)

A successful AMB in 2016 resulted in great satisfaction among the 1,469 exhibitors from home and abroad. This was confirmed in the exhibitor survey. Exhibitors awarded the event an overall mark of 2.2 while 90% of them were intending to recommend AMB to other people. However, the discussions revolved around one topic: the construction of the new Paul Horn Hall (Hall 10), which will increase the gross exhibition area of Messe Stuttgart to 120,000 square metres, and the related thematic hall (…)

At the traditional Open House at DECKEL MAHO in Pfronten DMG MORI shows a wide range of innovations. The 9,000 international trade visitors will be greeted by a display area of 8,500m2 featuring more than 80 high-tech exhibits – including 3 world premieres – and major sector highlights from the fields of automation, digitization, Additive Manufacturing and technology excellence. By a majority shareholding of 50.1% in REALIZER GmbH in Borchen, the group is strengthening its future (…)

Some 14,000 visitors attended Moulding Expo in 2015 to discover everything about the 620 exhibitors, their products and services. However, the varied accompanying programme also attracted many skilled workers to Stuttgart. One of the focal themes at Moulding Expo 2015 is once again in the spotlight this year: qualifications and further training. "Well qualified talented young people safeguard the future of the industry," explains Ralf Dürrwächter. People are what make the difference to the (…)

Trials carried out with Seco Tools show that Vero Software’s powerful, game-changing Waveform Roughing Strategy can save nearly £130,000 on cutting tool costs for 1,000 parts, compared with conventional machining strategies. The results came from trials using a Seco 20mm tool, cutting components from EN24 steel. Vero’s Strategic Partnership Manager, Wesley Tonks, says: “Tool life is dependent on how the tool is implemented within the machining process. We always state the increase in (…)