Every year in September, we can plan a nice moment in Bienne at the Industry Party. Again this year the manifestation will take place at Les Champs de Boujean next to Polydec, a high precision turning company that also makes turn the whole industry of the area. Place to the music Friday Septembre 04 and Saturday September 05 at 21:30 Funky Brotherhood & Freda Goodlett Just a few weeks before the release of their new album, do not miss the opportunity to see them live... and take a (…)

Manufacturing technology suppliers reacted with cautious optimism over reports that Ford posted the first sales gain in two years and that U.S. manufacturing activity slowed less than expected in July. But that’s not to say that tough times are over for the manufacturing industry. “This country’s manufacturing sector shrunk at the lowest rate in a year. That’s hardly great news!” insisted Doug Woods, President of AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology in the US. “While we hope (…)

40 years after their founding, the Witte company celebrated their 40th anniversary in July 2009. Horst Witte, his family, guests and staff had a wonderful day with fantastic weather where everything was simply perfect. More than 2000 years of experience After personally greeting more than 100 guests, who contributed to converting our entrance hall into a flower display, a few short speeches were held. Horst Witte briefly outlined the company’s development. His reply to the question asked (…)

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 (…)

In order to prepare texts for next issues, I went to do some interviews in high precision companies. First I went to RSM. This factory is located to La Chaux-de-Fonds and manufactures parts for watch industry and medical applications. They are working with about 40 machines, half of these are Almac machines and the other half are from Bumotec. M. Magistrini explained me how he works and he told me that the actual crisis lets him time to implement some projects he wanted to. "That way, when (…)

As a result of the current global recession, which has hit industry particularly hard, many potential participants have been unable to sign up for the Cumbre Industrial (“Industry Summit”) event, a technology fair with three sub-events under the names Subcontratación, Automatización and Trasmet, which was scheduled to take place in September this year. New dates It is not therefore possible to assure an event of the standard, quality and size required by the Bilbao Exhibition Centre to (…)

Industrie & Stim, Lyons (France) All the participants in this biennial French industrial event were reassured by the large number of visitors to the fair this year. Both French and foreign industrialists demonstrated that projects do exist out there and that investment is the key to economic revival. In a general context fostering ideas like ’nothing is going right’ and ’it will never work’ Industrie Lyon had succeeded in maintaining the confidence of its exhibitors who invested (…)

A provocative title which the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health (OFSP) hopes, in its flyer on REACH, to attract the attention of all industrial companies to this EU Directive which appears to be about to impose severe constraints. So what is it all about? Reach – so what is really behind it? The website of the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health, OFSP, provides this answer: ’REACH is the abbreviation for Registration, Evaluation, Authorization of Chemicals and also includes the (…)

I’ve interviewed M. José Iraolagoita CEO of a world class high precision turning company located in Spain: Microdeco. The main industrial sectors of the Basque country area where Microdeco is located, are mechanics, heavy industry, food-processing, timber and paper, and textiles. 30% of Spain’s production for the automotive industry also comes from this region. When the automotive industry is facing some though moments, what makes the difference? "Problems are always a source of (…)

Under the slogan "technology for life", the Spanish industry changes its skin. The aim of this high-aimed program is to revaluate the often unknown industrial and innovative skills of Spain. An image change During the Midest show in Paris, where Spain was VIP guest, it was impossible to miss the "technology for life" presence. Under the aisle of ICEX (Spanish institute for foreign trade), a new brand image has been built for the whole Spanish industry. To do such a change is obviously (…)