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Review of the industry - week 43/2024

At this point, we present the five most read articles of the past week. The ranking is based on your click behavior on the website. By Daniel Keienburg

Spring manufacturing

Northern Europe’s most modern machinery park

That’s at least the goal for Ewes in Bredaryd, Sweden's oldest family-owned spring company, which is heavily investing in new technology and smart solutions. by Gabriella Mellergårdh

Cold pressure welding

Welding trapezoidal wire

Cold pressure welding, well-established as a method of bonding round wire and rod, can also be used to bond other forms of nonferrous material, such as strip and profile. British company PWM Ltd has developed specialist machines to help manufacturers improve productivity, ... by Steve Mepsted

The new CNC transfer bending machine “BQ 10”

Short cycle times, quick tooling and flexibility

Always the same cycle with always the same travels and setup times of hours and days are a thing of the past. The flexibility of the modular CNC transfer bending machine “BQ 10” is hard to beat. Each individual transfer of the workpiece can be separately adjusted. By Jörg Dambock

Current contents

14/08/2019

Giebel Kaltwalzwerk again trusts in Ebner annealing technology

Giebel Kaltwalzwerk GmbH – a specialist in cold rolling and strip processing – has placed an order with Austrian Ebner Industrieofenbau to expand an existing ... By Editorial staff

14/08/2019

Kocks to deliver worldwide 100th RSB to China

Chinese Jiangsu Yonggang Group Co., Ltd. invests in the 5th generation of Kocks‘ Reducing+Sizing technology. For the German company this is the 100th reference ... By Editorial staff

14/08/2019

Sharp decline in machine tool orders, but ...

... metal forming technology still is selling well in the Eurozone. Orders for German forming machine tools builders in the second quarter 2019 were 1% ... By Editorial staff

08/08/2019

More than only to support the human colleague ...

You can definitely rely on robots. The sales figures year by year increase, and the versatility and application range, too. Soon enough, robots will use ... By Editorial staff

08/08/2019

Psychology meets production

How does networked manufacturing deal with malfunctions? That’s the subject of the three-year project “Spaicer”, which has won the German Federal Ministry ... By Editorial staff

05/08/2019

Condumex relies on Smart Factory software

Mexican enterprise Condumex had to replace the existing ERP system. Since none of the standard systems on the market would cover the cable production’s ... By Editorial staff

03/08/2019

Forming without changing mechanical properties

A new process makes it possible to process round rods based on tungsten with a 63% degree of deformation. The result is lengths up to 720mm instead of ... By Editorial staff

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Digital Issue 03/2024

The new issue of WIRE focuses in particular on spring production. We report on the requirements of e-mobility with wire diameters from 22mm to 30mm through to the production of micro springs in the 0.05mm range. Companies also explain new spring wire materials and spring coiling machines. WIRE will also be presenting the new CNC transfer bending machine ‘BQ 10’, which Wafios presented for the first time at ‘wire 2024’. We also report on a new lubricant for cold forming in the section ‘From the world of research’ .
News from the industry and trade fair highlights from ‘wire China’ and ‘Spring World’ round off the magazine’ s content. Your WIRE team wishes you an interesting and inspiring read!