GENERAL NEWS
New President for ADDIMAT
On 13 May 2021 , the General Assembly of the Spanish Association of Additive and 3D Manufacturing Technologies , ADDIMAT , elected Jaume Homs as its President for a period of two years . Homs is regional business manager for HP , in charge of markets in Spain , Benelux , Portugal , the UK and Ireland . He takes over from Alfonso Urzainki ( Egile Corporation XXI ), who has been at the helm of ADDIMAT for the last four years .
HP became a member of ADDIMAT in 2017 and then held a position in the Association ’ s Board of Directors that same year . It now has a worldwide base of operations for 3D printing in Sant Cugat del
Vallès ( Barcelona ), where it inaugurated ‘ the largest 3D printing centre in the world ’ in 2019 .
At its General Assembly , ADDIMAT presented activities and results for 2020 , a difficult year during which the Association maintained the number of its members ( nearly one hundred ). The Assembly also approved the Management Plan for 2021 with expectations this year to return to the previous growth trend in the sector , which has maintained its turnover in Spain ( despite the pandemic ).
ADDIMAT , along with the AFM , ESKUIN , AFMEC and UPTEK associations , is part of AFM Cluster , which represents the interests
of advanced and digital manufacturing . AFM Cluster includes almost 600 companies , which employ 16,500 people and have a joint turnover of 2.8 billion euros . n
Jaume Homs becomes President of ADDIMAT .
£ 100k press line investment
A UK specialist in precision pressed parts and machined components has invested more than £ 100,000 in the installation of a new highspeed press line to boost capacity , ahead of a raft of new opportunities . Source Engineering , which employs 32 people across its two divisions in Plympton , UK , has purchased a Bruderer press which can do the work of four conventional HME power presses .
The BSTA 200M 20 tonne stamping press is now up and running at its Langage Business Park facility , achieving 300 strokes per minute ( a 200 % increase in production output across a range of products for the automotive , electrical wholesale and oil and gas markets ). Engineers at the firm have freed an additional 500 square feet of production space to use for the introduction of new projects and ‘ to help it cope with an increase in demand for its range of automation solutions ’.
The Bruderer BSTA 200M stamping press was fitted with a high-speed servo feeder and pallet decoiler for precision control of material de-coiling and pinpoint pitch control through the progression press tool . Specified with a tool area of 510 x 400mm , the machine can deliver up to 1800 strokes per minute and can handle a maximum material thickness of up to 2mm and material width of 100mm . It has also been equipped with a press force monitor , to protect the press from overload , and limits damages to the tool if any stray material is pulled back up into the process - stopping the machine within one stroke , even at high speed .
Pablo Gutierrez , Technical Director , Source Engineering , commented : “ Sales are now back to pre-pandemic levels and we are looking to grow , with our ability to provide design , tooling
Pablo Gutierrez , Technical Director , Source Engineering , with the new Bruderer press .
and manufacturing all in one place driving the need for more production space . There are lots of new opportunities domestically and overseas and we are hoping to turn some of the potential into contracts that will see turnover rise by 20 % over the next twelve months .”
Source Engineering has developed new control boxes that help to monitor the part as it goes through production . It has already supplied several models to Bruderer UK for installation on its machines and is looking to expand its offer further over the next twelve months .
“ Tolerances of manufactured process speed have improved significantly , whilst the ability to achieve fast changeover of press tools has been achieved due to the in-built Bruderer application of SMED ( Single-Minute Exchange of Dies ),” commented Adrian Haller , Managing Director , Bruderer UK . n
The world of metalworking
EMO MILANO 2021 , a key trade show for global manufacturers which takes place at fieramilano Rho in Milan , Italy , will be held from 4- 9 October 2021 . The event is organised by UCIMU-SISTEMI PER PRODURRE ( the Italian machine tool , robotics , automation and ancillary products association ).
Luigi Galdabini , General Commissioner of EMO MILANO 2021 , commented : “ The availability of vaccines , international growth forecasts for machine tools and the important tax / investment incentive measures in new production technologies offered by the Italian Government are favourable backdrops to EMO MILANO 2021 , and will benefit all those who exhibit at the event .”
Various international players in the metalworking sector have already confirmed their participation . To date , 28 exhibitor countries will be at the event . Italy ; Germany ; Taiwan ; Spain ; Switzerland ; Japan ; Korea ; China and the United States are the nations with the largest number of exhibiting companies . n
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