Industry News for 06/2022

Sandvik Coromant and Kinto launch car sharing hub in Sweden

The collaboration between KINTO and Sandvik Coromant stems from the need to offer Sandvik Coromant employees tailored mobility solutions. To get the most use of the new car sharing station, Sandvik Coromant is also allowing the public to rent and use the cars. The cars will be available for booking by the hour up to monthly.

Sandro Bottazzo, Chief Sales Officer at STUDER

Combined drive technologies and e-mobility require a multitude of precision-ground components. The manufacturer of high-quality grinding technology, Fritz Studer AG in Thun, considers itself ideally equipped to meet this requirement with its productive machining concepts and high-quality grinding machines.

A new white paper from Eriez details how shred yards can obtain maximum profitability by upgrading to low copper shred.

In 2021, Zac Blume, chief technology officer at Inergy, a solar generator manufacturer, was an early adopter of the Bantam Tools Desktop CNC Milling Machine.

Marlor Tooling has been designing and manufacturing cutting tools for more than 20 years. The company has invested in a new linear grinder with robotic loading and RFID technology.

Electric cars on the world’s roads at the end of 2020, and EV registrations increased by 41% that year. While EVs are clearly on the rise, their adoption can be accelerated further by overcoming range anxiety, the fear that the vehicle has insufficient range to reach its destination.

Material choice and innovations in metal cutting are supporting the transition to more environmentally friendly vehicles, and demand for vehicles is increasing.

Permanent lifting magnets are powerful magnetic devices that can load and unload burn tables and, when properly installed and operated, provide greater safety than many other mechanical material handling devices.

Genesee Global, a manufacturing services provider based in Rochester, N.Y., recently passed the 20-year mark as a Global Shop Solutions customer. Global Shop Solutions is a provider of ERP software to manufacturers around the globe.

FPD Company installed advanced forging equipment to complement existing CNC capabilities.

Savvy machine shops are adding advanced forging equipment to create precision titanium components at a lower cost, in volume.

Will Reeves, Park Engineering's quality manager, setting up an aluminum freeform surface-profiled part for measurement on the new LK ALTERA M 30.20.15 CMM in an air conditioned room at the Stalybridge site.

Stalybridge, UK-based engineering company Park Engineering has increased the size of parts it can machine and subsequently measure on a coordinate measuring machine (CMM).