This VMC features standard ball-screw cooling and a highly rigid left-right mobile trunnion table that supports high precision and cutting power.

The CS700E Tool Management Centre allows grinding of profile forms on finish milling cutters of up to 700 mm in diameter. Cutters with up to 29 blades can be sharpened, while the cutter indexing process is carried out automatically. The maximum profile height is 120 mm.

Esab’s latest welding system, the Rebel EMP 215ic features multi-process arc performance, location flexibility, portability and an easy to use operator interface.

For industries ranging from offshore to plastics to metal forming, developing application-specific, modular machines is the ultimate goal. The way to achieve that goal is with optimised drive technologies. Electric solutions such as Rexroth’s IndraDrive ML can provide an alternative, especially when high power outputs are required.

5ME’s Freedom 4.0 updates the Freedom eLOG software, focusing on manufacturing efficiency, including asset utilisation, performance, quality and OEE.

Lichtenfels, Germany: The additive manufacturing provider Concept Laser attributed the aerospace and medical industry, as well as other sectors with an 88 percent increase in sales for the first half of 2016.

Bristol, UK: Renishaw is contributing its additive manufacturing expertise to a new £17.7 million (US$23.5 million) project, being led by Airbus in the UK, to develop a way of designing and manufacturing aircraft wings, which will encourage a “right first time approach” and reduce development time.

Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Siemens’ product lifecycle management (PLM) software business and BSH Hausgeräte, the largest home appliance manufacturer in Europe, have agreed to strengthen their relationship to enhance PLM software for specific industry needs.

Florida, USA: Faro has acquired Laser Projection Technologies (LPT), a supplier of 3D laser projection and measurement systems based in Londonderry, New Hampshire in the US.

Kakinada, India: The oil and gas subsidiary of General Electric has been awarded a Frame Agreement by Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC).