Biesterfeld Spezialchemie, one of the leading international distributors of specialty chemical products, pharma and food ingredients, is certified according to the international quality standards of EN 9120:2018. The company now meets the high requirements such as complete and traceable transparency in the supply chain and is able to deliver a broad portfolio of products, such […]
CIMComp, the EPSRC Future Composites Manufacturing Research Hub, is pleased to announce its fourth annual open day for 2022, taking place on 13th September at the University of Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC). The free-to-attend, in-person event will showcase the latest discussions and Hub projects into composite manufacturing, sustainability, and supply chains through dedicated […]
Victory Lighting, who for over 30 years has been designing and manufacturing specialist light sources, which include UV & IR for industrial & scientific applications, also design and manufactures control systems for regulating temperature, timing control plus data logging. The company has recently worked on projects for pre-heating materials prior to vacuum forming, using infrared […]
As part of an ongoing R&D partnership with Cranfield University, bigHead Bonding Fasteners has produced a demonstration mould tool that shows how bigHeads can be embedded into that trickiest of materials and processes, sheet moulding compound (SMC), without any ingress of resin into the fixing. The embedding solution is a one-step process that removes the […]
For bonding metal to polypropylene, PowderBond is more than three times stronger than structural adhesives, and quicker and cleaner. The Automotive Lightweight Design Group (Leichtbau-im-Automobil) has been testing PowderBond at Paderborn University, the highly respected testing institute for automotive manufacturing in Germany. Bonding strengths achieved between aluminium and different glass fibre composites from Huesker and […]
Tebis CAD/CAM/MES is pleased to confirm that Tebis 4.1 Version Release 4 is now available. The new release focuses on your manufacturing performance and the key figure: 24/7 If possible, machines should operate uninterruptedly 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This overall objective can only be achieved with CAM programming that’s even faster […]
The organisers of the International Composites Summit (ICS), Composites UK and The Fluency Business Group (Fluency) are excited to welcome Project OASIS to the exhibition from 21-22 September 2022, London. Funded by Horizon 2020, the project will come to a close in November 2022, after which OASIS will enter fully commercial operation. The project aims […]
COMPCUT, the specialist division designing and developing state-of-the-art cutting solutions powered by Sharp & Tappin, will be exhibiting its latest range of COMPCUT saws at the International Composites Summit (ICS) at ILEC Conference Centre in London. The two-day event will run from 21-22 September 2022. The team at COMPCUT are preparing for an exciting showcase […]
Summer 2022 continues to see pricing and supply issues within the Composites sector and further afield into most other markets. Stretched supply chains, high market demand and increased production costs continue to keep material prices at rates never previously seen across Europe and Globally. Indications are that availability and pricing issues may well continue, and […]
In industrial vacuum processes, the requirements for smart performance management and energy efficiency are constantly increasing. For more intelligence, variability and efficiency in coating, drying and heat treatment processes, vacuum specialist Leybold has therefore developed the VARODRY VDi vacuum system with integrated VAControl CAB control. The pump systems of the new series consist of the […]