It’s been a while since we spoke about coating here and I’ve a good news to people interested in this topic. we met Christian Manasterski, head of R&D of the Surfaces Synergie group, leader in this technology and we will publish a two-episode story in Eurotec. First episode in our December issue! Example of black PVD coating use in the watch industry with the Louis Chevrolet Frontenac 7500 and its steel case black PVD coated and polished. Black coatings are for some years, very (…)

With the MEDTEC Italy, UBM Canon presents a new trade show and conferences event in the third-largest European market for medical technology. It will take place on September 26 and 27, 2012 in Modena, Italy and will present design and manufacturing solutions for the growing medical technology industries in the area. Italian OEMs of the medical sector counts over 32,000 employees and generate an annual turnover of around EUR 10 billion. About 2,500 manufacturers of medical equipment or (…)

Vero Software, a leading provider of CAD/CAM/CAE solutions for the tooling industry, are pleased to announce the release of Machining STRATEGIST V13. A powerful multi-axis CAM solution that generates optimum HSM roughing and finishing CNC toolpaths for both the office and shop-floor environment. Machining STRATEGIST is a CAD independent solution and can work with data from all major 3D modelling systems. Within the latest release, support for VISI 19 has been included and the CAD interfaces (…)

Hexagon AB, leading global provider of design, measurement and visualisation technologies, will host its second annual international conference, Hexagon 2012, 4-7 June at MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Bringing together users from Hexagon Metrology, Intergraph®, ERDAS, Leica Geosystems and NovAtel the Hexagon 2012 agenda promises attendees hands-on training courses, interactive technology demonstrations and exhibits and unlimited networking opportunities. As the (…)

PTG Customer Care, the cross company division within the Precision Technologies Group of Milnrow, Lancashire that deals with all post delivery requirements for Holroyd, Crawford Swift and Binns and Berry machines, has developed a solution for customers finding it difficult to source replacement parts for machines with CNC controls over 10 years old by offering a state of the art new CNC control upgrade. By definition, the unthinkable is something none of us wants to think about. And, in (…)

Next spring the Medical Cluster and the RMS Foundation in cooperation with the Swiss Society for Surface Technology SGO-SST, will bring the fourth edition of the event [MEET THE EXPERT] Material and Surface Technology for Implants to the market. This event will take place on April 23-24, 2012 at the Congress Centre Kursaal Interlaken. The goal of the conference is to offer a platform for discussion and knowledge transfer between individuals active in the implant field. Subject of the (…)

Delcam will demonstrate its latest developments in feature-based programming of mill-turn equipment with FeatureCAM 2012 at the Euromold exhibition to be held in Frankfurt from 29th November to 2nd December. FeatureCAM will be shown on a second Delcam stand within the turning area of hall 9 (B139), as well as on the main Delcam stand in Hall 8 (H57). FeatureCAM 2012 incorporates a range of enhancements to enable faster and easier programming, and produce more efficient toolpaths to give (…)

Siams is a trade show which was born from the industry and has grown on fertile ground of innovations and extraordinary developments. In 2012 again, the entire region of the large Jura arc (from haute-Savoie to the South of the Germany) will be rewarded in this trade fair located in the geographical centre of all microtechnologies. The organizers announced yesterday that the halls will be full again next spring. Francis Koller – President, Laurence Gygax – Sales and customers relation and (…)

It is neither a single spindle lathe nor a classical multispindle one and also not a classical transfer machine. It benefits from a very small footprint and can be fed by coil or with a classical bar feeder and reaches high productivity outputs. It’s a wolf rotary table machine. Meeting at EMO with Ms Ilona Steinecke Sales manager of the German company. The TSM 280 machine is based on a rotary indexing principle and has been designed specifically for the production of parts for medium to (…)

Imoberdorf AG established that there was a need for a small machine on the market in order to concentrate the high productivity demanded by many companies into the smallest possible area. This has led its engineers to successfully harness state-of-the-art control and drive technologies from the wide and varied world of machine tools to maximise the productivity per unit area of a rotary transfer machine. We had the luck to meet Toni Imoberdorf, CEO at EMO to discover that new machine. (…)