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Highly-Automated Tool Shop Achieves Efficient, Precise Medical Device Manufacturing
When a basketball player needs a knee replacement, standard implants simply won’t do. With a total of 18 different additive manufacturing systems, the Aesculap division of medical company B. Braun is the place to go to have custom implants printed to size. However, the highly-automated tool and mold shop has much more to offer when it comes to producing injection molds, complex progressive dies as well as prototypes and fixtures for series production.
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Moulding Expo Goes Slovenia
Themed “Tool & Pattern & Mold & You”, the third edition of Europe’s leading moldmaking show will take place from May 21-24 2019 at the Stuttgart show grounds in Germany. For Slovenian tool and moldmakers, MEX is the most important industry event, which is why the country recently played host for the MEX 2019 international press conference.
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A European View on AM: Rethinking Injection Molds
Overseas business models and applications of metal additive manufacturing promise to improve or invent functionalities integrated into molds and tools.
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Higher-Level Laser Mold Texturing
Eroded, sandblasted and chemically-etched mold textures are now 100-percent lasered at this Germany-based service provider.
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Transitioning from CAD to CAM Pays Off
Like the majority of moldmakers, this shop generates revenue not by selling a 3D file of a mold as an engineering service, but by delivering the final physical mold. Investing in CAM software has helped the team to design short-run tools, which keeps loyal customers constantly coming back to them.
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How to Offer Employees More Than a Normal Job
Austrian moldmaker Haidlmair focuses on its 550 people in a very unconventional way, as it continues to be a leading specialist in building high-quality tools for beverage crates, folding boxes, and garbage containers.
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State of Mold Manufacturing in Portugal
Portugal boasts some of the most advanced and innovative moldmaking businesses that have nearly doubled their export and production rate over the past ten years.
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Welcome to the Hub of Moldmaking in Portugal
Despite being a relatively small economy, the world's eighth-largest moldmaking country sits on the edge of Europe in relative obscurity. Evolved from a centuries-old glass-making tradition, Portugal today boasts some of the most advanced and innovative moldmaking businesses that have nearly doubled their export and production rate over the past ten years. Here is a look at this country’s recipe for success.
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What to Think About When Investing in Machine Tools
MoldMaking Technology’s European Correspondent Barbara Schulz talked to some European mold shops to find out more about the rationale behind their machine-tool buying decisions.
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Germany Celebrates Top-Notch Moldmakers
Phoenix Contact has once again been recognized with Germany's "Toolmaker of the Year" award.
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Moldmaking in Austria, Italy, Slovenia, Germany – A European Road Trip
The German Association of Tool and Mould Makers (VDWF) has what it takes for successful association management and growth. It has long transformed its members into fans who have once again joined the association for a four-day trip in October 2018 to visit OEMs, moldmakers and mold shops in Germany, Austria, Italy and Slovenia; true to the motto “it’s all about the journey, not the destination”.
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Establishing a Production Startup in Mexico
In 2014, German moldmaker Siebenwurst established a subsidiary company in Querétaro, Mexico. It not only provides support to other German companies in the region but also uses its extensive machine park to produce new molds for a growing customer base.
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