The automotive industry is facing a crisis: the electric motor is replacing the internal combustion engine, computers are increasingly taking over control, and car-sharing is becoming trendy. Additionally, Industry 4.0 introduces a completely new strategy into factories. Significant efforts are need…

Further development at full bore: Everybody who’s anybody in the field of plastics processing will meet at the 27th Fakuma international trade fair for plastics processing in Friedrichshafen from the 13th through the 17th of October, 2020. The technical event with an emphasis on injection moulding w…

What functions will the laboratories of the future perform? And how can they make even more accurate diagnoses, ideally more quickly and at the place of treatment? From 18 to 21 November 2019, visitors in Düsseldorf will find the answers to these questions at MEDICA, the world’s largest and leading…

Constructing the right shaft for an application is not easy without CAD software and in-depth technical know-how. Therefore, igus has now developed a new free and openly accessible online tool: the drylin shaft configurator. Here, users have the opportunity to select the appropriate shaft in their d…

Dear Reader, dear Members of SRRT- SwissCCS,

In 2016, I already pointed out the groundbreaking changes to the standards: ISO 14644-1, -2 & -3, and I suspected that all changes would also be approved in the same year and thus enter the official FDIS status or be handed over as standards to indivi…

The North American plastics industry, led by the United States, is posting good business results this year. Sales, revenue and growth indicators are pointing up for the foreseeable future. Among the factors driving growth are the digital revolution in controls and machine communication which yields…

The electrical engineering company Weidmüller celebrates the opening of a new production building in Suzhou, China. The groundbreaking ceremony for the new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility took place in July of last year. After only eight months of construction, the building was completed by…

Following a sustained period of accelerated growth, integrated cleanroom solutions provider, Connect 2 Cleanrooms (C2C) is delighted to announce the promotion of Michael Wright to MD, effective 1st July 2019. Michael succeeds founding MD, Joe Govier, who has moved to a CEO role to seek out new strat…

The exhibition space is fully booked

The lounges in Vienna have become an attractive event for exhibitors. Over 60 companies present innovative products and services. Here is an excerpt from the list of companies:

ABC Allgemeine Bau Chemie GmbH, bc-technology GmbH, BLOCK Technical AG, Briem Steuerungs…

Anyone who wants to transport plastic bags or foil-wrapped, non-rigid workpieces with vacuum cups knows the problem: creases form during suction, the suction force diminishes, and the transported goods can fall down. SMC has developed the ZP3P series of vacuum cups specifically for this purpose. Tha…