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Parker Hannifin has completed the acquisition of Lord Corporation, a manufacturer of adhesives and coatings as well as vibration and motion control technologies, for around 3.7 billion US dollars.
read more...With Luvocom 3F Filament, the Lehvoss Group is presenting its own range of 3D printing filaments at this year's Formnext. Four products are offered based on the polymers PAHT and PET, two of which are carbon fiber-reinforced variants.
read more...At Blechexpo, Kjellberg Finsterwalde will be focusing not only on new developments but also on tried-and-tested special equipment for a wide range of welding processes aimed at improving the welding result for the user.
read more...Although complex injection moulding tools are often individual items, consistent standardization of workflows and automation of machining processes in conjunction with the right machine can achieve both quality and cost benefits.
read more...Materials for additive manufacturing
Hot Lithography (HL) from Cubicure can be used to process highly viscous high-performance photopolymers. At Formnext, the company will be demonstrating the processing of a polyester resin for the first time.
read more...read more...Ilmenau University of Technology is stepping up its research in order to master the growing volumes of data in the course of digitalization. The idea for intelligent sensors is to select the data required for the respective work process at an early stage and thus reduce the amount to be processed.
read more...3,022 kilometers across the Australian desert using only the power of the sun - that is the challenge of the World Solar Challenge. One of its participants is Team Sonnenwagen from Aachen. When developing their solar car, the students relied on the lightweight, wear-resistant and lubricant-free iglidur plain bearing technology made from durable tribo-polymers from igus.
read more...With the TUM.Additive action agenda, the Technical University of Munich is initiating a comprehensive research focus on additive manufacturing. Together with high-tech partners from industry, it is founding the "Bavarian Additive Manufacturing Cluster" with the aim of establishing Bavaria as a leading economic region for digital manufacturing technologies.
read more...Powder for additive manufacturing
In the NRW lead market project AddSteel, new, functionally adapted steel materials for additive manufacturing will be developed over the next three years. A central component of the project is the qualification of the developed materials for the metallic 3D printing process Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) at the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT in Aachen.
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