Rochdale-based Precision Technologies Group (PTG) has partnered with The University of Manchester’s Alliance Business School to help equip MSc students with ‘real-world’ international business skills. As part of a client-facing project, focused on international business issues and how to solve them, a number of the Business School’s MSc Business Analysis and Strategic Management students have spent up to twelve weeks working as external consultants at PTG’s Milnrow headquarters. The aim of (…)

On January 26-27, 2016, the 3rd Edition of the 3D Printing Materials Conference will take place at MECC Maastricht, in The Netherlands. Insights from speakers’ presentations at the conference: Theo Salet, Professor, Technical University of Eindhoven, about "3D Printing of Sustainable Concrete Structures – From a Black and White Printer towards a Colour Printer": "Printing of concrete structures saves on the costs, improves productivity and could above all seriously limit the environmental (…)

Roughly 4 months remain before PaintExpo opens its doors for the 6th time. But it’s already becoming apparent that the world’s leading trade fair for coating technology will be bigger than ever in 2016. With more than 135,000 square feet, overall net exhibition floor space has already exceeded the level achieved at the 2014 event. Ever since its founding in 2006, PaintExpo has been continuously growing form one event to the next. The exhibitor list already includes roughly 430 companies. (…)

CNC Software, Inc. and Sandvik Coromant have announced that they will be working together to integrate the Adveon Tool Library with Mastercam. Adveon will help Mastercam users to further improve machining productivity and security, and save time during machine set-up. By reducing the engineer’s input, both consistency and quality of data are improved. CNC Software’s Mastercam is the world’s most widely used CAD/CAM software, providing solutions from the simplest to the most complex design (…)

Vero Software is rolling out a new high speed 3D viewer which directly displays and evaluates 3D CAD files without the need for the original CAD application. PartXplore can open the native files of Edgecam, VISI and WorkNC, with further brands in the Vero portfolio expected to follow suit in 2016 R2. PartXplore has been created to efficiently import and analyse all file types and sizes at high speed. It often takes less than half the time to open a file compared to the original CAD (…)

BIG KAISER, a leader in premium high-precision tooling systems and solutions for the aerospace, automotive, energy, medical and watch-making industries, today announced its new Fullcut Mills. There are two versions: FCM for profiling and FCR for ramping. The FCR and FCM Fullcut Mills are indexable insert endmills that deliver excellent cutting performance for demanding milling applications. They are available in many types and for every machine spindle, and are particularly well-suited to (…)

At the Plastics & Rubber Vietnam, which takes place in Ho Chi Minh City from 1 to 3 March 2016, Arburg will present an efficient production solution based on a hybrid Allrounder from the high-performance Hidrive series, thus placing the focus on the packaging industry. The high-speed Allrounder 570 H in the “Packaging” version will demonstrate the cost-effective production of drinks bottle closures. "With a hybrid Allrounder 570 H in the “Packaging” version, we will be presenting an (…)

Many customers visited the UNITED GRINDING Group at the world’s largest machine tool trade fair. In parallel with the EXPO world exhibition the largest trade fair for machine tools, EMO, took place in October 2015 in Milan, Italy. Under the slogan "Let’s build the Future", 1600 compa-nies from 42 countries presented visitors with new and proven products from the world of metalworking. The UNITED GRINDING Group presented 15 machines on its exhibition stand, including three world (…)

The CECIMO General Assembly that took place in Brussels on 3 December 2015 confirmed: • The European machine tool production will record 23.3 billion euros in 2015, increasing by 2% from the year before; • The machine tool consumption in Europe will be growing 4% this year to 14.2 billion euros; • The conceptual framework of the Ecodesign Directive is unsuitable, not feasible and not desirable for complex industrial goods. • CECIMO will be the voice of additive manufacturing in Europe. (…)

In the recently published QS World University Rankings 2015/2016, five out of the top 10 universities are already customers of the 3D printer manufacturer Nanoscribe. Not only Harvard University, but also the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the University of Oxford as well as Imperial College London are among the elite users of the high-precision systems for microfabrication. ETH Zurich, which has already purchased a second Nanoscribe system this year, succeeded in (…)