General Shop Equipment & Supplies

Which machining center is better? Superiority is based on the application and the machine shop using the machine.

RTX Roundtracer Extreme from Mitutoyo America is an all-in-one CNC machine that saves setup time and shop floor space.

Toolmakers offer a variety of products to achieve surface finish specifications, including ones for polishing, buffing and grinding.

Engineering has long been male-dominated, but Seco Tools is working to encourage more gender diversity.

Mate Precision Technologies, a developer of metal forming and metalworking solutions, has named Tom Olmscheid as its new vice president for U.S. and Canada sales.

Additive manufacturing is set to revolutionize composite production in the defense, aerospace and additional industries.

Rollomatic Inc.'s Brian Twohey, national sales manager, highlighted a couple of machines while at Eastec: the GrindSmart 660XW, a six-axis tool and cutter grinder, and the Strausak ONE linear CNC tool grinder.n

Do you know a grinder operator using an ANCA machine? The company, a global manufacturer of CNC grinding machines, has launched the Female Machinist Award to recognize the achievements of female machinists in the tool and cutter grinding industry.

Platinum Tooling, the exclusive importer of Heimatec live tools and angle heads and other precision machine tool accessories, has named Frank Twomey as the company's regional sales manager.

Unisig, a global manufacturer of deep-hole drilling machines, has invested $1.5 million in state-of-the-art technology and equipment for the company's newly constructed 5,000-square-foot fabrication department.

George Brown, Northeast and Southeast regional manager for Vollmer of America Corp., took a few minutes during Eastec 2023 to discuss some of the features of the company's new VGrind argon machine.n

Sustainability. Autonomy. Collaboration. These topics were amply covered at Stockholm-headquartered Hexagon AB's HxGN Live Global 2023 conference, which took place June 12-15 at the Caesars Forum conference center in Las Vegas.