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Global CAM Market Remains Strong

CIMdata projects that the CAM software market will increase by 6.4 percent to $2.1 billion in 2017.
LVD Strippit Mexico Names New Sales Engineers

Belisario Antillón and Sandra Torres now provide sales and technical support to their growing base of customers throughout Mexico.
Talan Products Expands Sales Team
Metal stamping veteran Woodie Anderson joins their sales staff.
Atlas Technologies Delivers New Transport System for High Temperature Die Transport
They developed a Steerable Trackless Cart for Weber Metals to transport pre-heated dies used in forging.
Bar Steel Fatigue Database for Heat Treating is Updated
The database from the Steel Market Development Institute provides crucial grades and heat treatment combinations for safety critical components of vehicles.
Winners of Aluminum Extrusion Design Competition Demonstrate Versatility
Scholarships totaling $8,500 were awarded by the ET Foundation to designs used in things from sporting goods and medical equipment to industrial and infrastructure applications.
Sandvik Materials Launches Self-Service eCommerce System in the U.S.
Customers can check their orders via a self-management interface and browse a wide stock range of materials via a quick, easy-to-use interface.
Fast Plasma Cutting for the Small Shop

Torchmate 4400|4800 CNC plasma cutting systems from Lincoln Electric deliver faster cut speeds, consumable cost savings and exceptional repeatability, with less dross and better edge quality that reduces post-process operations.
Optics Protection for High Speed Fiber Laser Cutting

Fiber Shield Windows from Mate Precision Tooling provide maximum protection and increase the lifetime of precision lenses in laser systems by shielding valuable optic components in laser beam delivery systems from debris, fumes and other pollutants during the laser process.
Plasma Cutter Provides Highest Power-to-Weight Ratio and High Visibility Display

The Thermal Dynamics Cutmaster 60i handheld air plasma cutting system from ESAB is ideal for small shops and garages, general manufacturing to mobile fabrication, farm/ranch, construction, maintenance and repair, automotive bodies and frames, HVAC and training facilities.
Water-Guided Laser Cutting with Virtually No Heat Impact

Ideal for hole-drillers and shops that micro-machine metals, ceramics and composite materials with high precision in aerospace, industrial gas turbines, defense, medical, automotive, hard material tool making and general metal micro-machining, the Synova MCS 500 5-axis water-guided laser cutting system from Single Source Technologies greatly improves production yields by cutting and drilling perfectly parallel and clean kerfs or holes with virtually no heat impact.
Intelligent High Power Solid State Laser for Industry 4.0

The built-in intelligence of next generation TruDisk disk lasers from TRUMPF collects and monitors condition data and process parameters, and boosts energy efficiency through a new pulse function that ramps the current of the pump diodes down to zero amps, even during very short laser-off times between two processing steps.