Tag: welding

UR10e cobot to power the Vectis Cobot Welding Tool

Vectis Automation has chosen Universal Robots’ UR10e cobot to power the Vectis Cobot Welding Tool launching at FABTECH 2019 in Chicago, giving smaller weld shops a low-risk, easy solution to increase weld capacity, quality, and stability.

New compounds from LANXESS for laser welding

Laser transmission welding is also known as laser welding is a method employed for joining plastic parts. It enables even very small components with complex geometries to be produced in a cost-efficient and resource-friendly manner, making it part of the growing trend toward the miniaturization of electrical and electronic functions.

Stalatube opens new stainless steel processing facility

Stalatube Oy of Lahti, Finland, has invested a total of EUR 20M in the past two years, of which EUR 7M has been invested in a production facility in Poland.

Sandvik announces a new working partnership with Serck

Sandvik’s team based in Dubai has announced a new working partnership with heat exchanger manufacturer Serck Services (Gulf) based in Sharjah, UAE.

ASIPP develops a large-scale vacuum EBW system

The Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP) has developed a large-scale vacuum electron beam welding (EBW) system, including China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR) vacuum vessel collar as a pre-research part completed by this system, and it has passed the expert acceptance test recently.

Xiris celebrates its 30th anniversary

Xiris celebrated its 30th anniversary as of September 2019. The business was initially set up to commercialize the budding technology of machine vision, where cameras are used to acquire images of manufactured goods and send them to computers for processing.

Turnkey solution for precision metal parts welding

The new Coherent ExactWeld 230 is a turnkey solution for automated, precision laser welding of metal parts. It includes a 200 W (400 W optional) fiber laser, part clamping, up to four-axis (x, y, z, c), user-friendly software, an optional vision system, and factory automation capabilities (Industry 4.0/IIoT ready).

BIG KAISER releases new inserts for its indexable tools

BIG KAISER, the premium high-precision tooling systems and solutions for the metalworking industry, has released a new set of insert grades for its indexable tools—C-Cutter Mini, C-Centering Cutter and Fullcut Mill.

HIS Appoints Mark Romeo as President

HIS Innovations Group, an LVL3 portfolio company, announces the appointment of Mark Romeo as President and Chief Innovation Officer.

The world’s first 3D printed, smash-proof guitar

Rock stars have been smashing guitars for decades, few with more enthusiasm than Swedish-born guitar virtuoso Yngwie Malmsteen. Sandvik decided to test their cutting-edge technologies by building the world’s first all-metal, unbreakable guitar and letting Malmsteen unleash his smashing skills on it.