Industry News

Mike Vassil has been named vice president of operations at Okuma America Corp. in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Vertex Manufacturing, a Cincinnati-based advanced manufacturer, has expanded its ability to produce high-value 3D metal parts with the acquisition of an additive manufacturing system from Velo3D.

Laser printed data matrix codes can track ten billion tools that in turn can generate huge amount of insight into how our products are used.

Eriez, the Erie, Pennsylvania-based manufacturer of separation technologies, has established Eriez-Deutschland GmbH (Eriez-Germany), headquartered in Recklinghausen, Germany.

Mazak hopes to “move manufacturing forward” at its Oct. 25-29 Discover 2021 technology and education event.

To kick off this agreement, Transor will provide a filtration system to serve two saw blade grinding machines at Vollmer’s headquarters in Pittsburgh.

Star Cutter Co. hired Josh Hubbard as a sales and applications engineer at its facility where the company builds 5-axis CNC tool grinding machines.

Sandvik Coromant's CoroPlus MachiningInsights platform is an expansion of the company’s CoroPlus suite of connectivity software. The platform gives manufacturers greater visibility of CNC machine tools and machining processes, and to provide the tools needed to analyze, identify, and eliminate common sources of downtime and inefficiency.

Now in its fourth year, ANCA Tool of the Year has raised the profile of cutting tools and those companies who make them.

The manufacturer of custom cutting tools joins more than 40 companies participating in the Thinc network.

The Ceratizit Group acquisition of the remaining shares allows the Group to further expand its footprint and accelerate a growth strategy in the cutting tools market, specifically in high-end micro tools.

As a Diamond partner, Absolute Machine Tools Inc. will be able to utilize resources available from Mitsubishi Electric.

GWS Tool Group and Haimer USA signed a U.S. licensing agreement for Haimer's Safe-Lock anti-pullout system.

In the cutting tool and toolholder industry, one of the reasons for Big Kaiser's success is its adherence to quality control -- in part by using measurement technology from Kistler to benchmark cutting tools.

GWS Tool Group in Tavares, Florida, finalized its third acquisition in 2021 and its first international acquisition with the purchase of Indexable Cutting Tools Inc.

John O’ Neil, engineering manager for gear tools at Star SU has been elected by the Gear Research Institute to its Board of Trustees for the 2021- 2023 term.

The 53,000 sq. ft. center was built specifically for industrial machine tool training and supports flexible machine layouts and configurations.

The global pandemic has impacted businesses around the world, but for Aiguisatek, a Canada-based sharpening service, the impact was compounded by stringent local regulation in the Quebec province that all but shut down manufacturing in the area. Automation technology solved these challenges.

Choosing the right tools, and determining the right tool calculations, is vital to overcome diversification challenges and developing new revenue streams.

Micrometal's photochemical etching process enables ultraprecise contours to take shape and produces metal parts with unique features and a greater level of complexity.