Robotics Automation News

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

PickNik Robotics, a robotics software and engineering services company, has agreed a collaboration with CisLunar Industries, a space technology company working on in-space metal processing.

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Mold Making Technology

APRIL 3, 2024

Source | TCI Precision Metals Machine-Ready Blanks from TCI Precision Metals help mold shops shorten setup time, reduce scrap and reduce in-house machining time by eliminating material preparation for a cavity, core, mold blocks and other components. TCI Precision Metals is a family-owned, precision metal services company.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

JANUARY 24, 2024

Due to its years of experience, the company has a highly skilled team of expert machinists and engineers trained in the latest CAD, CAM, CFD and FEA programs. Guill machines super alloys and exotic metals to close tolerances. Guill multi-axis machines can produce a variety of sizes, complex engineering and geometric intricacies.

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Mold Making Technology

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The company now includes facilities across the country with capabilities ranging from metal and polymer 3D printing to precision machining and injection molding. Photo Credit, all images: Addman Group Metal 3D printing and machining are complementary processes. 3rd Dimension was its first acquisition in early 2021.

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Dinesh Mishra

AUGUST 2, 2022

Metastable’s new facility will be doubling up as a fully operational metal extraction unit by the end of the present year. Metastable’s patented technology can provide up to 90% recovery of constituent materials for LiBs across various types of cell chemistries. .

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Manufacturer's Monthly

JUNE 21, 2023

Engineers in Melbourne have developed a cost-effective and environmentally friendly way to remove heavy metals, including copper and zinc, from biosolids. The overall metal-removal process occurs over three stages: extraction, purification and recovery. The research is published in the international journal Hydrometallurgy.

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Canadian Manufacturing

MAY 1, 2024

TORONTO — Neo Performance Materials Inc. Jeff has been a mentor to a new generation of engineering and commercial leaders at Neo in the midstream of rare earths processing,” said Rahim Suleman, the Chief Executive Officer. ” Since joining Neo in November 2023, as Executive Vice President, Rare Metals, Mr. .

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Robotics Automation News

MARCH 5, 2023

Michael Bartlett, an assistant professor in Virginia Tech’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been granted a $590,600 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award to research and understand new strategies for manufacturing liquid metal-based soft composites.

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Canadian Manufacturing

JULY 14, 2023

Conventional fumed silica manufacturing processes rely on Silicon Metal (Si) as a feedstock, involving complex steps, high energy consumption, hazardous materials, and Hydrogen Chloride Gas (HCI) production as by-product. t CO2 e, with over 60% [1] of emissions stemming from the use of silicon metal as feedstock.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Matter SRL Managing Director Giuseppe Rotondi announces the recent formation of Matter USA Corporation, the company’s new subsidiary for application engineering, sales and service for this major Italian builder of custom and modular Automated Storage & Retrieval Systems (ASRS) for the metals industry.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Machine learning insights The U-M-led project, backed by a $2 million NSF grant, leverages machine learning (ML) to accelerate the discovery of metal alloys with double the hardness of current record-holders, potentially revolutionizing industries like aerospace. It is impossible to test them by trial and error.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Its research is based on multi-disciplinary scientific and engineering capabilities and uses world-class infrastructure. It partners with industry to develop innovative products and processes that allow Australian manufacturers to be globally competitive and environmentally sustainable.

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Canadian Manufacturing

APRIL 22, 2024

Equispheres uses atomization technology for metal powders for use in additive manufacturing and automotive applications. Equispheres further supports industrial adoption by improving the mechanical properties of printed parts while increasing energy-efficiency, reusability, and safety of metal additive manufacturing.

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Mold Making Technology

MARCH 19, 2024

Source (clockwise) | Steel 21, Trumpf, Molder’s World and TCI Precision Metals. The injection molding process all starts with a metal mold. The type of material — whether it’s made of steel, aluminum or beryllium copper — used to make a mold is critical to the success of the final plastic part.

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Additive Manufacturing

JANUARY 13, 2023

Additive manufacturing materials are often the driver for new applications including production applications. In 2022, the AM community introductions of new materials for electronics, tissue fabrication, corrosive environments, consumer products, sporting equipment, and more. Take a look at the 2022 materials development.

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Additive Manufacturing

OCTOBER 14, 2022

National Strategy for Advanced Manufacturing (53-page PDF download) which includes how Additive will have an impact on sustainability as well as materials innovations. The strategy report references Additive Manufacturing dozens of times with much of it centering on materials, sustainability, bioprinting, and software. Investment.

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Fastener News Desk

MAY 1, 2024

Additionally, the partners will design, engineer and produce titanium fasteners for critical sectors such as the aerospace, naval, oil & gas, power generation, pulp & paper and chemical sectors. IperionX’s titanium metal and critical minerals are essential for advanced U.S. Pender, Associate Director U.S.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

APRIL 26, 2023

11:00 AM – 11:20 AM Titomic Ltd – Additive metal and future opportunities Speaker: Neil Matthews, head of engineering at Titomic Ltd. Additive Metal Technologies (AMT) are important part of manufacturing industry growth. Click HERE for more details. Click HERE for more details. Click HERE for more details.

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AU Manufacturing

JANUARY 15, 2023

New research from Deakin University has uncovered a mechanism inside lithium-metal batteries that could prevent battery degradation and open new possibilities for next-generation electric vehicle batteries. .

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E&T

JULY 6, 2023

Familiar materials used in industry contain polycrystalline components, including metal alloys, ceramics and semiconductors. To obtain a polycrystalline material that can be used effectively in industry, control and measurement of grain orientation distribution is required,” said Professor Noritaka Usami, of Nagoya University.

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AU Manufacturing

JUNE 21, 2023

A team of engineers led by RMIT University in collaboration with South East Water and Manipal University in India has developed a cost-effective and environmentally friendly way to remove heavy metals, including copper and zinc, from biosolids.

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Manufacturing 69

Manufacturer's Monthly

JANUARY 18, 2023

Deakin University researchers have pinpointed a crucial mechanism inside lithium-metal batteries that could prevent battery degradation and inform the development of next-gen batteries. The research shows how Li creep, which is the slow deformation of lithium metal, contributes to the degradation of the separator within a Li-metal pouch cell.

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Plastics Today

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The Japanese engineering plastics provider will introduce a PEK resin suitable for metal replacement and a biomass cellulose acetate material.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Metal 3D printing will soon take place in orbit for the first time. A pioneering European-made metal 3D printer is on its way to the International Space Station on the Cygnus NG-20 resupply mission which launched on the 31st January. It paves the way for manufacturing more complex metallic structures in space.

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Additive Manufacturing

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Fortius Metals, and Continuum raised millions in funding to expand production. Looking to 2023 an beyond, the additive manufacturing community will have access to new materials from Belena, Essent Biologics, and Uniformity Labs, as well as software from Authentise. SyBridge Technology will acquire assets from Radius.

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Additive Manufacturing

JANUARY 11, 2023

Highlights included more options for printing bigger and smaller, printing electronics and composites, and a couple of open platforms to allow more material development for industry and researchers. Desktop Metal Introduces the All-New S-Max® Flex, a Robotic Additive Manufacturing 2.0

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Mold Making Technology

APRIL 16, 2024

Shown here is an Xact Metal printed automotive connector insert on a tool with the corresponding plastic injection molded final part. an Xact Metal customer. Xact Metal has announced the launch of its new initiative, “Breaking the Mold: The Xact Solution to Better Tooling.” Source | JST Sales America, Inc.,

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Additive Manufacturing

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Ottawa, Ontario/November 17, 2022 — Aiming to improve the performance and productivity of metal additive manufacturing, Morf3D Inc. At Equispheres, we have an emphasis on applications engineering and process optimization, so we speak the same language,” says Evan Butler-Jones, Vice-President – Product & Strategy for Equispheres.

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Modern Machine Shop

JANUARY 14, 2024

A specialized combination of razor-sharp grains with a large grinding aid helps reduce heat generation for cooler cuts and longer life on a range of materials, such as carbon steel, aluminum, stainless steel, nickel alloys and other hard-to-grind metals.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

If you are using weld nuts or inserts to create threads in thin-walled materials in metal manufacturing processes, there is a strong, high-quality connection alternative tool that many fabricators in the United States are not familiar with — even though it has been around for decades. It forms an insert out of the material itself.”

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Manufacturer's Monthly

JANUARY 29, 2024

The Additive Manufacturing Zone, showcasing various techniques within Additive Manufacturing include Stereolithography, Selective Laser Sintering, Material Extrusion, Sheet lamination, Binder jetting, Cold Spray processing, Material jetting, Directed-Energy-Deposition, and many more of the most advanced technologies within this sector.

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AU Manufacturing

APRIL 2, 2023

Manufacturers using welding techniques suffer from limitations in realising complex structures because of the limited process of building one layer at a time – this is because subsequent layers are laminated after complete solidification preventing the molten metal from flowing down.

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Control Engineering

JULY 13, 2023

Learning Objectives Understand ways the Lift manufacturing innovation institute in Detroit is helping to advance automated metal forming, controls, training and optimization. Learn applications of CNC, robotic welding and metal-forming processes at the Freedman Seating Co., a Freedman Seating manufacturing engineer, gave the tour.

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Canadian Manufacturing

MAY 23, 2023

Li-Metal announces that it has produced refined metal from lithium carbonate process TORONTO — Li-Metal Corp., Domestic lithium metal production capacity is essential for the development of a sustainable supply chain for next-generation batteries.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Researchers at The University of Queensland (UQ) are developing new 4D printing technology that produces shape-shifting liquid metals for soft robotics. 4D printing is an extension of 3D printing, where solid objects are created using materials that can change shape when exposed to certain stimuli like heat, water or light.

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E&T

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The material has molecular fragments that are jumbled and disordered, but can still conduct electricity extremely well, which goes against all of the standard rules for conductivity. “In Essentially, it suggests new possibilities for an extremely important technological group of materials,” said Jiaze Xie, the first author on the paper.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

AUGUST 27, 2023

Established in the 1940s, Australian Rollforming Manufacturers (ARM) provide world-class rollformed products, design expertise and dedicated project management services to a wide range of national and international engineering projects.

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