Studer produced the thousandth machine in its best-selling S33 series in the hundredth year since the company’s foundation. The Swiss celebrated this event during the sixteenth Indian Machine Tool Exhibition IMTEX, which took place between January 24th and 30th 2013 in Bangalore. Swiss Airbrush Champion Philipp Klopfenstein sprayed a special design onto the body of the 1000th Studer S33. Studer was the first to succeed in using several grinding wheels on one and the same machine, an "All (…)

The signs are good for a successful parts2clean 2013: As of end-January, more than 125 exhibitors had already booked their stands for the event at the Stuttgart Exhibition Center (Germany) from 22 to 24 October. A trend towards larger stands also means that more than two-thirds of the 2012 edition’s total exhibition space is already occupied. That some 4,400 square meters of stand space had already been reserved at mid-January confirms the importance of parts2clean, which was able to (…)

Delcam has extended the range of EDM equipment supported by its integrated solution for the design, machining and inspection of electrodes. Direct modelling options in PowerSHAPE make electrode design quicker and easier. Delcam Electrode can now provide scripts for all the leading manufacturers, including AgieCharmilles (Agievision and CT Millennium controls), Makino EDM, Mitsubishi Electric, ONA EDM, OPS-Ingersoll, Sodick and Zimmer & Kreim. Full details are available on the website – (…)

The Hanover Fair offers a unique platform for entrepreneurial and sustainable industrial actions to an international audience through solutions and innovations. In 2013 again the show will offer an opportunity to discover many news and companies and actually do business. As every year, Osec organizes joint booths in the “Industrial Supply” and “Research & Technology” halls. Many Swiss companies are to be discovered there. . Swiss exhibitors on the OSEC booth in hall 2 (D41) (…)

From February through April, 2013 two Ferromatik Milacron injection molding machines will be touring Europe. The travelling exhibition will make stops at local offices in Spain, Italy, Denmark, and the UK. Every three years Ferromatik Milacron exhibits at the K-Show in Dusseldorf, and 2013 is no exception. This year the injection molding machine manufacturer plans to augment the industry event with its own travelling roadshow, including a hybrid F 80 and an all-electric Elektron 50. The (…)

At the Hannover Messe Preview I discussed with the specialists of Technische Antriebselemente GmbH. This company located in Hamburg is specialised in drive technology and linear systems. They just launched a new electro piston… let’s have a look at it. Many companies try to replace pneumatic or hydraulic pistons by electrical ones. Technische Antriebselemente GmbH now offers them an interesting alternative. The new electro piston benefits from a patented technology without any electric (…)

In many industrial cleaning applications the use of solvents yields valuable process advantages. Committed to making optimum use of these benefits, Dürr Ecoclean keeps refining and improving its equipment portfolio continually to adapt each cleaning system perfectly to its task and enhance the cost efficiency, process reliability and sustainability of the solvent-based cleaning process. Organic solvents are commonly used in industrial part and surface cleaning where highly oil-contaminated (…)

If the world of surface treatments has seen many innovations in recent years, we are only at the beginning of a (r)evolution which sees parts be treated to combine several functions to obtain unimaginable results not so long time ago. To talk about it and draw parallels with mountaineering, we’ve met with Mr. Samuel Estoppey, Director of the Estoppey-Reber group and great admirer of mountains... and the comparison between mountain and surface treatment is very relevant! “We want to discover (…)

The Hannover Messe preview took place last week in Hannover and I was lucky to be there to discuss with some exhibitors and the organisers. It was amazing to see that at least half of the companies I visited talked about energy efficiency. It is still a major trend, let’s see an example. In any workshop people are using compressed air and most of the time that resource is seen as necessity evil and anyhow not a topic top deal with to add value to the company.... things may be seen (…)

Executive conference examines MEMS’ connection to European advancements in consumer, automotive, energy, medical MEMS Industry Group (MIG) will host its second annual MEMS Executive Congress® Europe, March 12, 2013 in Amsterdam. This European edition of MIG’s highly successful executive event features an opening presentation by MIG Managing Director Karen Lightman, keynotes by Continental Automotive GmbH and SORIN GROUP, and panels exploring micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) as a core (…)