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International Metalworking News- Middle East & Africa presents its first edition for year 2014. We couldn’t be more excited to have made it to this point. Our goal is for you to know more about the newest and up-to-date technologies in the metalworking industry including success stories from various key players in the Middle East and Africa regions.
Chip control, a concern in any machining operation, becomes more critical when space is tight and narrow cuts produce chips that are thin and hard to break. Tool manufacturers have developed chip control geometries that can help solve this problem, and cutting strategies such as feed pauses can contribute as well. Find out more at this month’s issue of Tooling & Workholding.
Flow International’s Composites Machining Centre (CMC) hits the mark for single-setup processing of 40 metre long composite wing skins, and one of the keys to holding long axis accuracy during week-long machining cycles is Renishaw’s HS10/HS20 laser encoder. Learn more about Flow’s CMC’s new machine tools developed to meet the aerospace industry’s need to produce large monolithic parts with minimal dimensional variation at this month’s Inspection Measurement Equipment.
Selective laser melting and laser metal deposition are the two laser-based additive manufacturing methods. Here you can read about the current status of both methods. Additive manufacture of metal parts in industry always involves building an object layer by layer, usually from powder and most frequently using a laser. The method that has become synonymous with additive manufacturing is called selective laser melting (SLM) or powder bed fusion. The process creates highly complex components with internal structures or components that are the image of their internal strains. The material is consolidated exactly where it is required to accept and conduct stresses.

International Metalworking News - Middle East & Af Magazine Description:

International Metalworking News – Middle East & Africa is published 6x a year in English with highlights in Arabic. The magazine is uniquely positioned to serve the needs of the metal forming and metal cutting industry across 20 countries in the Middle East and Africa. It offers practical solutions to improve productivity, reduce cost, and turn innovations into real competitive advantages as well as the latest market information, trade show reviews and videos, and people and company profiles, written by industry experts and correspondents across the Middle East and Africa. Also included are exclusive content and articles from Ringier's family of metalworking industry magazines covering Greater China and South East Asia, such as International Metalworking News for China, International Mold & Die Making News for China, Modern Machine Tools and International Metalworking News for Asia. The interactive content allows readers to make direct and immediate contact with advertisers/suppliers and featured companies in the editorial by clicking on the web site and email addresses in each issue, access online content in Ringier’s metalworking website (metalworking.industrysourcing.com), and avail of video content through iTunes and Google Play.