Recycling to save renewables

Norwegian scientists are extracting rare earth metals from scrap to prevent scarcity of materials from holding back energy-conservation efforts

Breast cancer screening system gets FDA nod

Old news is good news for TB drug discovery

Researchers look back to a 1950s antibiotic to combat drug resistance

New stevia sweetener from Tate & Lyle

Delivers a key taste advantage at high sugar reduction levels

New inject2blow method reduces time and costs

The inject2blow method combines the injection moulding and blow moulding processes in one mould on one injection moulding machine.

Shini showed off vast range of auxiliary equipment at Taipeiplas2012

The company has a wide range of auxiliary equipment for the plastics industry and these were put on exhibit at the recently concluded TaipeiPlas 2012.

Application of hydraulic energy saving techniques

Breakthrough alternative to kieselguhr launches in China

Malaysia rare earths plant wins license to operate

Australian miner Lynas Corp. says it has secured the Malaysian government's approval to fire up a controversial rare earths plant.

Vertical integration for value-added machine tools

YCM is on a mission to become the “most value-added machine tool company in the world” by capitalizing on renewed investment in research and development, as well as the advantages of its vertically integrated manufacturing system.

Five-facebridge type vertical machining centre

Yama Seiki introduced the five-face LP-2516YF bridge type vertical machining center. The high-performance machining center provides greater efficiency by reducing time for parts set up.

23-station horizontal lathe

FEMCO Inc. introduced the HL-35DMSY lathe with the company’s patented 23-station Durga turret at IMTS 2012. The new machine also features two spindles with a Y-Axis and 11 live tool stations.