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Britain’s last remaining bellfoundry saved with £3.45m National Lottery funding The last remaining major bellfoundry in Britain has been saved just in time for Christmas, thanks to £3.45m from the National Lottery. Since 1859, the iconic Loughborough Bellfoundry, home to John Taylor & Co bellfounders, has cast more than 25,000 bells that are hung in over 100 countries, in churches, cathedrals, universities and public buildings. 20 million people in Britain, and hundreds of millions worldwid...

04. September 2020 KUKA maintains its commitment to innovation even in the crisis KUKA is starting the late summer with a digital press conference se-ries. Under the motto "Join for a coffee with...", KUKA experts will be talking to media represent-atives. The event was kicked off by Dr. Ulrike Tagscherer, Chief Innovation Officer at KUKA: "For a company, innovation is like a kind of life insurance policy.” In the virtual discussion round, Dr. Tagscherer emphasized that innovation ...

21. December 2020 Complete process optimisation with Artificial Intelligence: Huaxiang chooses DISA’s Monitizer suite for Smart Foundry project Shanxi Huaxiang Group Co., Ltd. (“Huaxiang”) has become the first Chinese foundry to adopt the full Monitizer® digital suite, supplied and supported by DISA, a Norican technology. Monitizer | GLOBAL will allow Huaxiang to collect and monitor live process data and optimise casting quality using Monitizer | PRESCRIBE’s AI-driven analyt...

02. December 2020 Thomas Fritsch Chief Editor Tesla consciously builds on the German location and on die casting At the renowned tool and mold maker KRÄMER + GREBE GmbH & Co.KG from Biedenkopf-Wallau, more and more die casting molds for lightweight construction and drive components for electric vehicles are being delivered to customers in the foundries. Using the example of a recently delivered tool, we asked the experts at K + G, Fabian Schuetz (Sales) and Roberto Di Giulio (Head o...

17. August 2020 Focus on improved casting outcomes using green sand analytics Author: Deepak Chowdhary – Inventor of SANDMAN data analytics SaaS software for green sand molding and digitalization in foundries. Data Science is precisely what the name suggests: it is the science of mathematically modeling data and using the logic and computational flow of algorithms to predict outcomes and recommend the most optimal solutions to achieve them in the process to which applied. In Mach...

One of the leading Korean die-cast manufacturers has chosen LK for its complete solution of die casting machines IMPRESS-PLUS 6000T and 4000T. They have ordered two giant machines for their plant in Vietnam for an international, well known Korean communication company. 

GER - VDMA: Decline in sales in air handling technology kept within limits Flash survey: sales decline of 7 percent expected for 2020 -- Forecast: slight growth of 2 percent in the coming year According to the current autumn survey of member companies, the VDMA Air Handling Technology Association expects a 7 percent drop in sales for the industry for the whole of 2020. For the machinery and plant engineering sector, the VDMA anticipates a 14 percent drop in production in 2020. According to the ...

Foundry experts are linking casting defects to their probable root causes by using years of experience. However, even the eyes of an expert cannot see details that MAGMASOFT ® simulation can display virtually.

23. March 2020 Reliably Prediction of Tool Abrasion during Core Shooting From February 12th – 13th, 2020, the Formstoff-Forum took place for the third time in Munich. The aim of this forum is to enable a close exchange of ideas between experts from research and industry. Together with our development partner MAGMA, KRÄMER + GREBE was able to contribute to this Forum with an interesting presentation. Speaker Thomas Achenbach demonstrated the possibilities of an experimental analysi...

15. October 2020 Coil repair with price & deadline guarantee thanks to ABP Complete Customer Care Make use of ABP Inductions full service program – with scheduling, collection, repair and delivery as a package To ensure that a system is quickly available again, that it offers the best possible operational reliability for the user and guarantees efficient operation of the system, ABP Induction is expanding its Complete Customer Care service package to include coil repair in metal pr...