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News round-up Igus invests £4m in circular economy
Marcus Burton, managing director
of Yamazaki Mazak UK from 2010 to
2017, has been awarded an MBE
for services to export and inward
investment in the New Year Honours
list. https://is.gd/uquyig
Sandvik Coromant has been
presented with the Technical
Excellence Award (TEA) from Ford
Motor Company for a tool and
process monitoring application
involving a gear grinding operation.
https://is.gd/ijanuc
Construction has begun on Liberty
House Group’s powder metals
development facility in Teesside.
https://is.gd/odeder
A two-year, Innovate UK-backed
project will see metalcutting
subcontractor CloudNC’s disruptive
automated CAM programming
software developed further,
supported by members of the High
Value Manufacturing Catapult and
two global engineering rms, GKN
and Thales UK.
https://is.gd/evocoq
BAE Systems and Renishaw have
signed an agreement to work
together on the development of
additive manufacturing capability for
the defence and aerospace sector.
https://is.gd/zeruzo
Worcester Presses is celebrating 10
years of supplying hydraulic presses
in the UK by hitting a major sales
milestone, its 50th hydraulic press
sale to PAB (Coventry).
https://is.gd/humozu
Igus has invested £4 million in
Mura Technology Ltd, a company
that wants to put the rst
commercial Catalytic Hydrothermal
Reactor (Cat-HTR) plant into
operation. This technology recycles
plastic waste into oil within 20
minutes, which can then be reused
to make new plastic products, high
performance or technical.
The rst commercial Cat-HTRplant
is currently being planned, in
Wilton, UK, with construction due
to start this year. Waste companies
supply the waste plastic to meet
their recycling goals. Oil is then
obtained that can be sold as a
replacement for virgin fossil oil. A
total of four catalytic hydrothermal
reactors are to be built in Wilton
and will be able to process more
than 80,000 tons of plastic waste
every year. As a next step, Mura is
planning to issue licences all over
the world and build new plants.
For Cat-HTR, only water, high
Machining centre and lathe
supplier Hurco Europe has enjoyed
its second-best turnover ever, with
2019 only slightly below that of the
company’s record year in 2018.
https://is.gd/agozon
Starrag UK has introduced a
machine rental scheme for its
Bumotec range of multi-axis mill-turn
and machining centres.
https://is.gd/vofi xu
Big Kaiser and Kistler are
collaborating to allow the former’s
Mega New Baby collet chuck and
Igus managing
director Frank Blase
became aware
of the Catalytic
Hydrothermal
Reactor technology
from an article
and contacted the
German inventor,
Professor Thomas
Maschmeyer, in
Sydney, Australia.
Seven months later,
Igus is investing in
the technology
temperature and pressure are used
to separate the cells and join them
together again. One plant alone
can process 20,000 tons of plastic
per year, reducing CO2 output by
28,180 tons. This total
corresponds to the annual fuel
consumption of 5,983 cars, or the
annual energy requirements of
4,914 households. “With the Igus
the latter’s RCD Type 9171A rotating
dynamometer to deliver even higher
levels of accuracy in cutting force
measurement.
https://is.gd/icaraj
Gühring and Chiron have set a
record, machining 1,000
cubic centimetres of
steel alloy
(16MnCr5) in 60
seconds, which
equates to a
metal removal
rate of 8 kg of
steel per minute.
https://is.gd/
erofum
Oliver Staiger (L), Chiron, and
Rolf Ehrler, Gühring, discuss
milling strategy
DMI Precision Engineering
has reported a dramatic
improvement in shop oor noise
levels, following the introduction of
Vert air compressors. Noise levels
fell 6 dBA to 68 dBA: every 3 dBA
reduction represents a halving of
sound energy. https://is.gd/vafaze
Chainge programme, we are
recycling plastics from old
products. This is the best way for
high performance, or technical,
plastics,” says Frank Blase,
managing director of Igus, who
underlined: “We are committed to
achieving a state of balance in the
world of plastics with technical
solutions.”
The Manufacturing Technology
Centre has expanded its additive
manufacturing portfolio by investing
in an FDM-based Fortus 450mc 3D
printer. This complements the MTC’s
existing stable of Stratasys PolyJet
solutions, which comprises fullcolour,
multi-material J-Series 3D
printing technology, as well
as a large-scale
Objet1000.
https://is.gd/ahejik
Metal fabricator
Concept Metal
Products has
invested in an
additional Kimla
machine to boost its 10 m
metalcutting offer. It has already
purchased 10 by 2 m (4 kW) and 4
by 2 m (6 kW) Kimla bre lasers.
https://is.gd/yarocu
Late last year, Rainford Precision
Machines was appointed the UK
and Ireland agent for Belgian rm
At the annual Markforged reseller event in January, Mark3D UK was
named ‘top growth partner’. The Mark3D Group has of ces covering
Germany, the UK, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg. It specialises in
providing sales, service, consumables, training and consultancy for the
complete range of Markforged 3D printers. On top of this award, Mark3D
GMBH was named “Global Partner of the Year” by Markforged, the fourth
year running it has won the award. Full story: https://is.gd/wiyahe
In Machinery January 2020, p43, Mark3D should have been the UK agent
named as the supplier to Dunlop Systems. Apologies.
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