Material News New carbon composites deal spurs doubling of capacity January 24, 2013 by plasticsinfomart Leading composite materials, engineering, tooling, parts, and systems provider Guri (Zürich, Switzerland) has secured a second supply contract from a sports car manufacturer in the Italian market, prompting it to move to doubling capacity by mid-year at its plans for automotive parts manufacturing in Newport, UK. Prototype deliveries of the new composite parts will commence […] Read more »
Market News Oil prices get boost from China manufacturing January 24, 2013 by plasticsinfomart BANGKOK (AP) — Oil prices were higher Thursday, boosted by a survey showing that China’s manufacturing is on the upswing. Benchmark oil for March delivery was up 29 cents to $95.52 per barrel in at midday Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract dropped $1.45 to finish at $95.23 on […] Read more »
Recycling News China rectifies chaos in Lead Acid Battery industry January 24, 2013 by plasticsinfomart EIJING: China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) have co-distributed the “Provisional Measures for Administration of Entry Conditions of the Lead Acid Battery”. This is an important supporting document for the former released regulation the “Entry Conditions of the Lead Acid Battery”. The “Entry Condition” is China’s very […] Read more »
Category Menu Repair Robot Will Do On-Site CNC Machining January 24, 2013 by plasticsinfomart We’ve reported on several kinds of maintenance and repair robots for fixing satellites, inspecting damaged nuclear reactors, climbing wind towers, and rebuilding coral reefs. Now a European consortium is working on a repair and maintenance robot system for on-site computer-numerical control (CNC) machining in dangerous or hard-to-access environments. The MiRoR consortium is developing a six-legged […] Read more »
Material News SAS Automation introduces variety of vacuum suction cups January 24, 2013 by plasticsinfomart SAS Automation Asia Ltd, one of the leaders in robotic end-of-arm tooling has expanded their line of vacuum suction cups. Vacuum suction cups often are better solution for part handling in robotic or automation applications. Typical applications include removing injection-molded plastics from molds, or palletizing. Typical materials that are handled include plastic, sheet metal, glass, […] Read more »
Industry The 20th Printing South China and Sino-Label 2013 to be held in March January 24, 2013 by plasticsinfomart The 20th Printing South China, one of the largest and most influential integrated printing exhibitions in China, will be staged again at China Import & Export Fair Complex, Guangzhou, China on March 4-6, 2013. Sino-Label 2013, which has been developed as the largest and most professional label printing exhibition in China, will be concurrently held. […] Read more »
Machinery News Automatik Plastics Machinery launches new Primo 200E at Interplastika in Moscow January 24, 2013 by plasticsinfomart Automatik Plastics Machinery, a subsidiary of maag and manufacturer of pelletizing systems, will showcase PRIMO 200E, the newsingle-side mounted dry-cut strand pelletizer with an extra-large cutting width of 200mm, at Interplastika that held from 28 Jan to 2 Feb in Moscow. PRIMO 200E has unique cutting geometry with the shortest unguided length between the feed […] Read more »
Industry Delcam improves PowerSHAPE solid modelling and point cloud tools January 24, 2013 / March 8, 2017 by plasticsinfomart Delcam has launched the 2013 R2 versions of its PowerSHAPE CAD software family with new tools and enhancements for solid modelling and for manipulating point clouds. The two sets of developments will speed the production of designs ready for manufacturing, whether starting from imported CAD data or from scanned data. PowerSHAPE combines solid, surface, wireframe […] Read more »
