Davis-Standard: Extrusion expertise for specialized applications

Davis-Standard LLC offers a wide range of extrusion systems geared for various applications.

Graphene-enhanced composite solution

Huntsman Advanced Materials is in researching opportunities for developing graphene-enhanced composite solutions, with a view of incorporating graphene into its ARALDITE® epoxy resins

Flame-retardant PBT blend for electric bikes and scooters

To make housing components for the bike and scooter batteries, the Askoll uses a material from LANXESS that will be marketed under the name Pocan AF 4110.  

Frigel: As cool as it needs to be

One example of cross-industry innovation is cooling supplier Frigel’s entry into beverage markets with its highly engineered systems, long applied in plastics extrusion and injection

World demand for machine tools to reach $181 billion

Worldwide demand for machine tools is projected to climb 5.5 percent per year through 2019 to $181 billion.

Machine tool control specialist chooses NUM CNC for precision grinding

Advanced CNC systems from NUM are helping US machine tool control specialist CNC Onestop, Inc. to maintain its competitive market edge through use of ultra precise positioning techniques.

The machine tool goes digital

Machine tools are becoming increasingly more precise, quicker and better. However, the basic principle of the metal cutting machine is changing very little. 

The virtual twin is coming

Professor Jivka Ovtcharova from the Karlsruhe Institut für Technologie (KIT) offers an assessment regarding machine tools or computers with spindles. By means of a virtual image, she said that it will be possible to validate operational concepts in the value creation process for a machine tool in real time.

Challenges, opportunities for machine tool manufacturers

The machine tool industry is in a very good situation to be able to cope with all the approaching challenges. With an export share of around 70 percent, it is so well placed worldwide that it can rapidly meet rising demand everywhere.

Software for machine tools

Nobody can ignore digitalisation. Many manufacturers of machine tools are being faced with problems when it comes to this. The software that they previously required was mostly located in the machine control system that was supplied.

Keep Abreast of you for Fourteen Years – IPB 2016 will Open Ceremoniously soon

The 14th edition of International Powder & Bulk Solids Processing Conference & Exhibition (IPB) will be held in Shanghai Convention & Exhibition Center of International Sourcing (CECIS) on 19 October to 21 October, 2016.

CSB-System named ERP System of the Year

Industry-specific software from CSB-System AG has been named ERP System of the Year 2016 in a competition held at the IT & Business exhibition in Stuttgart, Germany