600 UK are showing a range of new products at MACH 2018, including NEW CNC milling machines, CNC Turning Centres and the latest Industry 4.0 developments on stand 565 in Hall 6 at the NEC in Birmingham. The new Typhoon series introduces Colchester’s next generation of CNC turning centres, offering exceptional cutting performance and highly accurate component finish at every stage of your operation. The Colchester Typhoon is manufactured with a one-piece cast iron base with a 30° (…)

Catalogue in a few figures: 436 pages, 11’000 references, more than 20 new family tools, 6 languages… A new edition where you will find many new products and as well the old range of standard tools. A lot of novelties are dedicated to the watchmaking market: 2/3 engraving tools finished style DIXI 7027 Hob cutters DIXI 1672 – 1673 “GO” - “NO GO” plain gauges for NIHS thread minor diameter DIXI 0418 0419 And also more conventional products: twist drills for dial drilling DIXI 1137 (…)

Intento Design and CSEM announce that CSEM has selected ID-Xplore to accelerate its analog design process and allow its designers to perform technology porting seamlessly at the functional level. ID-Xplore was developed to give analog designers accurate, deterministic and correct-by-construction transistor sizing and design capabilities. “New technologies developed for ID-Xplore increase the designer’s ability to visualize performance sensitivity and understand the impact of design space (…)

Saint-Gobain Abrasives, the world’s leading manufacturer and supplier of performance abrasives, will present its latest grinding tool innovations from its Norton and Norton Winter brands at this year’s GrindTec. The highlights of the show include products designed for the grinding of engine and gearbox components and the manufacture of components for the aerospace industry. Norton Winter CarbonForce The company will also be demonstrating the advantages of its high porosity abrasives and (…)

Global engineering technologies company, Renishaw is contributing its additive manufacturing (AM) specialist knowledge to European machine tool trade association, CECIMO. The trade body represents national associations of machine tool builders across 15 European countries. Following the appointment of senior manager, Stewart Lane, to the CECIMO board in 2015, the company has contributed and shared its specialist additive manufacturing (AM) knowledge and expertise as well as attended events (…)

During the last CECIMO meeting, the CECIMO General Assembly elected Marcus Burton as Chairman of the Market Intelligence Committee for a period of two years. As the successor of Frank Brinken, Vice-Chairman of Starrag Holding AG, Mr Burton will guide the Market Intelligence Committee of the European Association that represents more than a third of the world machine tool (MT) production. He will lead the CECIMO Economic Department, which provides up to date information to the member (…)

Messe Stuttgart acquired the 100th exhibitor for CastForge with Rosswag GmbH. The trade fair for castings and forgings with machining takes place from 5 to 7 June 2018 at the Stuttgart trade fair centre. The participation of numerous companies and associations from abroad highlights the international importance of the event. "We were very excited over the last few days to see which company we would be announcing as the 100th exhibitor", states Gunar Mey, Department Director for Industrial (…)

Arburg will for the first time take part in the PIAE (Plastics In Automotive Engineering) Europe 2018 congress. Some 1,500 participants and more than 110 exhibitors are expected attend this prestigious event hosted by the German Association of Engineers (VDI) at the Congress Center Rosengarten in Mannheim on 14 and 15 March 2018. During around 80 specialist presentations by automotive manufacturers and suppliers, plastics experts from the automotive industry will provide comprehensive (…)

Netzsch, one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of pumping technologies and their systems, has purchased a ‘special version’ Zenith 400 helical profile grinding machine from Precision Technologies Group (PTG) company, Holroyd Precision. The Zenith 400 will be installed and commissioned at Netzsch’s manufacturing facility in Brazil during early 2018. Netzsch will use the Zenith 400 to produce a range of pump screws. These will then be used in a number of the company’s innovative pumping (…)

The AMB project team is starting the trade fair year 2018 with a new line-up: After the departure of Sabrina Sledzinski, Florian Schmitz is moving to AMB with immediate effect. As Project Manager, Schmitz will in future be responsible for the area of machine tools for the international exhibition for metal working. He completes the trade fair team with Romy Arnold, Project Manager for precision tools and peripherals, and Nadine Trester, Project Coordinator for AMB. The AMB Project (…)