Micronarc Alpine Meeting (mAm 2015) – The Microproducts Annual Meeting, 6th edition will take place from February 1 to 3, 2015 at Villars-sur-Ollon. Following in the success of the first Five editions, The Micronarc Alpine Meeting 2015 will continue its focus on Microproducts. The mAm 2015 program is on-line. The final speaker slots will be confirmed shortly. 5 reasons why you should not miss mAm 2015 : Excellent speakers and program. Single track format. Ideal conference size for (…)

The international days of watchmaking marketing (JIMH) will address the watchmaking design and how to build up an icon. With this evocative theme, the 18th edition will take place on December 4, 2014, in La Chaux-de-Fonds (in French). The unmistakable watchmaking rendezvous of the end of the year has just presented the outline of its program. Quick glance on the themes Esthetic conventions and design How to understand new design trends How is design perceived in the watchmaking world – (…)

Noris taps for processing a wide variety of steel alloys, cast iron and various non-ferrous alloys are well known under the names Salorex Uni for blind holes and Stabil Uni for through-hole. Reime Noris now extends the Uni series to high performance taps made of HSSE-PM (HSS-PS) with improved cutting geometry and TiCN coating. Noris Salorex Uni - the specialist for deep blind hole threads up to 3xD thread depth - has 42 ° right-hand helix flutes. These provide a secure chip removal against (…)

Now even stronger, more efficient and with yet more combination options: There are new additions to the maxon family of X drive products. Several long versions of brushed DC motors, with higher torques and more power, are being added to the product range, together with matching planetary gearheads. Each of the 3-stage versions can now be combined with the next smaller motor. This saves space, weight and costs. Two years ago, maxon motor presented a new generation of brushed DC motors – the (…)

Till tomorrow night all eyes in the MEM industry will be on Basel at Prodex and Swisstech on the banks of the Rhine. With its cutting-edge infrastructure, the new exhibition hall promises to provide the perfect platform. The MEM industry is constantly faced with new challenges as a result of rapid, dynamic and increasingly complex manufacturing processes. Greater efficiency across the board is therefore the order of the day. The hype surrounding 3D printing and “Industry 4.0” also shows no (…)

Opened yesterday in Basel, the two trade shows for the MEM sector and its supplier industries are hosting even more exhibitors than two years ago. With 325 exhibitors, the Prodex exhibitor floor is completely booked, surpassing the fair’s outstanding results from 2012. Swisstech also has a full house, with its 550 exhibitors occupying the entirety of the new Hall 1, including around 25 percent of international exhibitors. A successful start I discussed with many exhibitors yesterday and (…)

Stefan Eichler, the Director of Rimann, is well known on the Swiss market, particularly in microtechnology as specialist of the valuation of the machining residues by solid/liquid separation. Recently, his company has developed its activity in the treatment of air (liquid/ air separation) by selling Coral products and we could bet that Rimann will quickly be known on the Swiss market in this area too. After Prodex, it is also as a saxophonist that Stepan Eichler will be recognised. He (…)

We’ve done some maintenance on the website and I am happy to inform you on the main aspects you can benefit from while surfing with us (and you will also learn a few facts on our paper issues). Actually as you may not know it, our website displays pieces of news day after day, but it is also a complete database of all the articles published in Eurotec from issue 1/2009. Those are classified under the Article link and 2013 compilations that summarise all the articles on that topic. Those (…)

Schunk, the competence leader for clamping technology and gripping systems extends its program for high performance hydraulic expansion toolholders with the Tendo Aviation. After the introduction of the powerful Schunk Tendo-E compact universal toolholder in 2010, Schunk continues this unique story of success, by focusing on demanding precision applications, which particularly occur in the aerospace industry. Safety mechanisms such as anti pull-out locking mechanisms are partly mandatory (…)

The advantages of using high-performance cutting materials such as PcBN or PCD are clear. However, due to the high costs for these cutting materials, the users demand tool systems that make optimum use of the cutting edges without losing performance or stability of the process. Mapal successfully met this demand with an innovative indexing system indexable round inserts of PcBN for hard turning. The main innovation of the new indexing system is that the function of the defined turning of (…)