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March 2025

It seems like the entire word is in turmoil

COVER STORY: Quick holemaking with Iscar

Optimising cutting speeds: From general guidelines to practical values

Special Steels expands into new facility to enhance material flow and efficiencies

Hi-Tech Machine Tools partners with Schunk

Bystronic South Africa strengthening customer support and industry leadership with appointment of Gareth Jackson as Managing Director

Condere Laser and Engineering broadens its horizons and expands to new facility

Hermle AG partner with Top-Tool

Secant adds larger machines to production capabilities

Abakhulu Investments acquires Centlube, Zestcor Eleven and Ingwe Lubricants

Retrofit your existing CO2 laser to fiber with Lind SA Automation

NEASA’s stance on anti-dumping duties on structural steel heard by ITAC

SPP Heavy Engineering lays foundations for new dedicated heavy plate processing facility, commissions 20kW Bystronic ByStar fiber laser with 6m x 2.5m bed

Mahindra South Africa and IDC sign MoU to assess feasibility of CKD assembly in South Africa

South Africans dumping BMW and Mercedes-Benz

Sheetmetal Solutions – a turnkey name for a turnkey sheetmetal processor

ITAC issues a preliminary determination on the alleged dumping of certain flat-rolled products of iron, alloy, and non-alloy steel imported from China, Japan and Taiwan

TW Profile Services sets levelling and stress standards for sheet and plate components

How cloud-based CAD helps you work faster and smarter with Autodesk Fusion 360 [VIDEO]

Regular maintenance of cutting fluids is essential to maintain quality

Red Bull Racing and Hexagon renew F1 partnership

Nidec’s $1.6 billion bid for Makino: Reshaping the machine tool industry?

Renishaw and IDEKO establish advanced manufacturing R&D facility in Spain

Additively manufactured kamikaze drone completes flight tests at over 350 miles (560km/h) per hour

Porsche looking at reducing workforce by 1 900

Stratasys announces major equity investment

Heller forms strategic partnership with H.I.G. Capital

Complex parts testing is early focus of Ford, Red Bull F1 partnership

Titanium additive manufacturing hinge components used in world’s thinnest foldable smartphone

Ametek acquires Kern Microtechnik

TIMTOS 2025 concludes successfully showcasing six key trends leading the global machine tool industry

SeamQuip – a world-class OEM standard precision tooling engineer to the canning industry

Metal fabrication and machining: Better together

Next-generation Sandvik Coromant CoroDrill DE10 redefines plug-and-play in short-hole drilling

A new way of contacting FANUC Service

Gühring: Modular threading tools

Mitutoyo’s measurement software streamlines inspection process

Taegutec’s T-Turn: Chip breakers for steel machining: FLP, MLP, MGP, RGP

Amada press brake with cobot delivers 24/7 automated bending

Open Mind Technologies’ additive manufacturing feature in its HyperMill CAD/CAM software suite

The Hurco VM ONE 3-axis vertical machining center

Kennametal’s Swiss-type tools specialised for small, complex components

Studer’s uniLoad loading system

Victor Taichung’s NP26 horizontal turning lathe