Moulding Expo opens its doors: fixed meeting point for trendsetters

705 exhibitors are tak­ing part in this year’s Mould­ing Expo. Now being held for the third time, the trade fair is becom­ing estab­lished on the mar­ket and has found its reg­u­lar exhibitors who main­ly com­prise tool, pat­tern and mould mak­ing com­pa­nies. Mould­ing Expo is unique since 50 per cent of exhibitors now come from this…

Fast and environment-friendly coating

The new process for extreme high-speed laser depo­si­tion weld­ing (Ehla) is a gen­uine suc­cess sto­ry: inten­sive devel­op­ment in Aachen from 2012, con­sis­tent imple­men­ta­tion and test­ing of the sys­tem tech­nol­o­gy in the Nether­lands fol­lowed by indus­tri­al imple­men­ta­tion in Chi­na. And on 21 Sep­tem­ber 2018, the process devel­oped by the Fraun­hofer Insti­tute for Laser Tech­nol­o­gy ILT in…

IMTS 2018 shows high procurement levels in North America

The IMTS (Inter­na­tion­al Machine Tool Show), the largest and most impor­tant met­al­work­ing event in North Amer­i­ca, took place in mid-Sep­tem­ber in Chica­go. The US machine tool asso­ci­a­tion AMT, the organ­is­er of the event, cap­tured the suc­cess with head­lines such as “Boom­ing man­u­fac­tur­ing econ­o­my” and “Vis­i­tors have cap­i­tal and are ready to invest!” A broad range…