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Manual Pallet Changer Workholding from Pierson

Manual Pallet Changer Workholding from Pierson

Pierson Workholding just added a new product demo video to their website. The Pierson Pallet Retention System is a manual pallet changer designed to maximize production by reducing idle-spindle time, speeding up setups, and putting more parts in the machine per cycle.

Modern Applications News goes Digital

Modern Applications News goes Digital

It looks like a magazine, turns pages like a magazine and can even be delivered to your mailbox (email inbox) like a magazine, but beginning March 2009 Modern Applications News will no longer issue their magazine in printed form.
Using technology from nxtbook media, MAN magazine will be delivering their same great content in digital form. [...]

Your New Tool Distributor: Amazon Industrial

Your New Tool Distributor: Amazon Industrial

Amazon.com boasts annual sales of $15 billion primarily through books and consumer items. So, why not open an industrial supply division for the rest of us? Well, they have. Amazon.com’s Industrial & Scientific site sells everything from abrasives and endmills to fasteners and raw materials. Amazon’s Free Super Saver Shipping also [...]

Haas Automation’s New MINI Mill 2 may be the next BIG Winner

Haas Automation’s New MINI Mill 2 may be the next BIG Winner

When Haas introduced the Mini Mill in 2000, it quickly became one of the best selling machines in the company’s history. Its combination of small footprint, full CNC capabilities and sub $30K price were unheard of in the industry. The Super Mini Mill added even more capabilities, while maintaining the same compact footprint and affordability.
But [...]

Makino Announces Webinar Schedule for First Quarter 2008

Makino Announces Webinar Schedule for First Quarter 2008

MASON, OHIO – December 2007 – Makino has released its 2008 first quarter webinar schedule, kicking off the new year with topics such as EDM for Aerospace and Automated 5-Axis Machining.
Makino’s Online Seminar Series began in 2005 and is the only expansive educational program offered by a machine tool builder free of charge. Thousands of [...]

Solidworks World 2008 in San Diego

Solidworks World 2008 in San Diego

SolidWorks, an industry leader in the field of 3D CAD technology, will be holding SolidWorks World 2008 International User Conference & Exposition in San Diego in January 2008. This year’s conference is claiming to be the most expansive yet.
 
The conference will be held in San Diego from January 20-23, 2008 and will feature keynote [...]

Abu Dhabi Basic Industries to Invest $23 Billion in New Manufacturing Projects

Abu Dhabi Basic Industries to Invest $23 Billion in New Manufacturing Projects

Author: Moussa Ahmad Source: BI-ME and media reports
UAE. Abu Dhabi Basic Industries, known as ADBIC, plans to invest up to US$23 billion in new manufacturing projects which include Aluminium smelters, and petrochemical plants.
ADBIC’s Chief Operating Officer Jim [...]

Haas Automation Installs 75,000th CNC Machine

Haas Automation Installs 75,000th CNC Machine

It hardly seems possible, but on May 31, 2007, Haas Automation installed its 75,000th CNC machine tool. When one considers that more than two-thirds of that number have been sold in the last 7 years, and that the company designs and builds its machines at a single plant in Southern California – employing just 1100 [...]

Hurco Introduces Massive Machining Center

Hurco Introduces Massive Machining Center

INDIANAPOLIS —Hurco Companies, Inc., announced the launch of its biggest vertical machining center ever—the VMX84. With X/Y/Z Axis travels of 84/34/30 inches, this massive machining center broadens the company’s product line to meet the needs of customers who produce large parts, molds, and dies. VMX84 customers can choose from spindles speeds of 10K, 12K, or [...]


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