Industry News

Stainless steel has numerous material advantages for an array of industry applications, but the chosen processing technology can have an effect on the quality and integrity of parts and components made from this versatile metal.

Transor Filter USA has promoted Mike Batch to Quality Assurance Leader. Combined with his existing duties as a service engineer, he will now also oversee the Transor Quality Assurance Program.

Cutting tool and gear tool providers Star SU and Louis Bélet have entered into a strategic partnership to enhance each companies’ product portfolio and expand collective reach within the Americas and Europe. 

Eriez’ new “Processing Zurik to Zorba” white paper highlights separation equipment that efficiently upgrades Zurik to a more desirable and profitable Zorba fraction while also reducing scrapyard fire hazards.

The medical technology poses major challenges for machinists.

Over the last few decades, additive manufacturing (AM)/3D printing has fundamentally changed the way that manufacturers approach product development. Industry is now almost universally aware of the term rapid prototyping, using AM to convert 3D CAD data into physical models in a matter of hours.

The firearms industry, like every manufacturing industry, has product marking requirements. In this industry, however, marking is an even more essential process; and one that is rigidly regulated by law.

CNC Software LLC, the developers of Mastercam, named Nicolas Le Moigne as its director of sales for Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA).

West Ohio Tool Co. won the Columbus Blue Jackets Small Business of the Month award presented by First Merchants Bank contest. As the month of January winner, West Ohio Tool Co. received recognition as the featured company during a Blue Jackets game on Wednesday, January 26. They are one of six small businesses recognized during the season.

GF Machining Solutions has named Chris Jones as the company’s president and managing director of North America. 

While smart factories are revolutionizing the manufacturing industry through innovation, being connected comes with new risk factors that must be addressed. A Deloitte study revealed that 48% of manufacturers identified operational risks—including cybersecurity—as the greatest danger to their factories.

Transor Filter USA named Mark Baltyn to its sales team as a regional account executive.  Baltyn is a veteran of the machine tool field having spent more than 15 years with Hirschmann Engineering providing tooling solutions for a wide range of manufacturing.

North American sales award recognizes one Eriez manufacturers’ representative annually for outstanding service, sales and support.

H.B. Carbide, a Lewiston, Michigan-based manufacturer and global supplier of carbide blanks and pre-forms, has expanded its sales network into Mexico and Latin America through a partnership with Bu-Mac Technology Solutions in Querétaro, Mexico, led by Carlos Cortes as the local agent for all inquiries, technical, service, commercial requests.

Wohlhaupter Tooling and boring tools from Allied Machine are helping to preserve the Pampanito, a World War II submarine.

JM Performance Products and The Reshoring Initiative analyze “near-post-COVID” parameters with a trajectory focus on training, technology, supply chain, production, and reshoring.

In an email to Cutting Tool Engineering, Kaylee Dudek, a full-time employee in the application engineering department at Allied Machine & Engineering, Dover, Ohio, describes the impact of winning a $5,000 scholarship from the U.S. Cutting Tool Institute.

WLR Precision Engineering is a contract machining specialist in Wilford, Nottinghamshire, and the company was using a pair of 15-year-old coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) in its inspection room. Looking to upgrade the technology, WLR Precision invested in two CMMs manufactured by LK Metrology. Soon, they had largely superseded the older CMMs. 

The Basics of Static Electricity white paper presents 20 comprehensive and full-colored pages on the causes of static electricity, how it develops, and solutions for combatting it in manufacturing processes.

The use of industrial robots in factories around the world is accelerating at a high rate: 126 robots per 10,000 employees is the new average of global robot density in the manufacturing industries.