Technology News International

Mecanil Oy Ab, the well-known Finnish supplier of a wide range of equipment to the global forestry industry, has returned from an encouraging outing at Elmia Wood 2009, the world’s biggest international forestry fair. Held from June 3 to 6 in the richly forested region just south of Jönköping, Sweden, Elmia Wood welcomed nearly 47,000 visitors, underscoring the forest industry’s unwavering belief in the future as well as the first green shoots of an economic turnaround.

Experience and know-how, combined with a knack for innovation and a corporate philosophy that emphasizes customer-oriented solutions and strong customer support, have made Austria’s Posch GmbH the leading supplier of firewood equipment in Europe. Never one to rest on its laurels, Posch recently gave visitors to LIGNA 2009, the forestry and wood industry trade fair held during mid-May in Hannover, Germany, a close-up look at three new products that underscore the company’s leadership role in this important industrial niche.

Spraying Systems Deutschland GmbH, an expert in spray technology, is back from a successful appearance at Anuga Foodtec 2009, the international trade fair for food and drink technology held in Cologne, Germany, during March. Despite the general economic downturn, the Anuga balance sheet showed roughly 34,000 trade visitors from 114 countries, a result comparable to that of the previous installment of the fair. Always eager to rub shoulders with a savvy international crowd, Spraying Systems says Anuga fairgoers showed a high level of interest in the company’s AccuCoat® Heated Spray System, giving the innovative solution high marks.

Founded in 1903, Germany’s Maschinenfabrik Max Kroenert GmbH & Co KG is an international market leader whose name has become virtually synonymous with state-of-theart machines and production lines for the converting of web materials. Kroenert’s machines coat or laminate paper, aluminium and copper foils, and plastic films with nearly unlimited coating compounds ranging from lacquers, adhesives, waxes and resins to hotmelts, acrylates, primers and polymers.

Leifeld Metal Spinning is a world leader in research, development, and manufacturing of machine tools, mainly for chipless metal forming. For more than a century, the heritage brand 'Leifeld' stands for quality and innovation made in Germany. Almost 6,000 machines produced and installed worldwide are proof for the company’s employees’ passion and commitment, working on quality, performance, and energy efficiency of Leifeld machines.

LumaSense Technologies AS, the Denmark-based subsidiary of LumaSense Technologies (Santa Clara, California, USA) has underscored its role as a leading European provider of temperature and gas sensing solutions by announcing the first in a new family of gas analysis instruments for use in a wide variety of industrial applications. Called the INNOVA 1316 Multi Gas Monitor, the new instrument is capable of measuring a customer-specified set of up to five gases at a very affordable price.

Germany’s Sauer & Sohn KG continues to leverage its extensive expertise in LaserCUSING to benefit of customers requiring rapid prototyping of workpieces with complex geometries. Working directly from 3D-CAD data, LaserCUSING is a layer-by-layer process that uses a scanning laser to fuse single-component metallic powders to produce full density components that are free of both stress and deformation. The components typically have complex geometries that would otherwise be impractical or impossible to create with conventional machining methods and can be quickly produced in very small lots or even as one-off prototypes.

Germany’s Kugler GmbH, the internationally acclaimed expert in precision micromachining, has announced an innovative new tool measurement system that integrates with the company’s latest MICROGANTRY machining systems. The new optical measurement system, which uses a unique high-speed strobe to capture and measure tool contours during actual in-process machining, is especially relevant for micromilling, where machining quality and tool state cannot be observed visually by the operator and where all referencing processes must commonly be performed with micron precision.

Cosmic Sondermaschinenbau GmbH, the Austrian specialist in high-tech sewer rehabilitation, announces three equipment innovations for the sewer rehab sector. The new tools fit hand-in glove with Cosmic’s TOP-HAT concept, a complete system for the localized repair of house service connections and main pipes.

Austria’s High Q Laser, a world leader in all-diode-pumped solid-state ultra fast lasers, has announced two important new products specially engineered to meet the demands of industrial applications. Called femtoREGEN™ UC-INDUSTRIAL and picoREGEN™ UC-INDUSTRIAL, these new ultra compact pico- and femtosecond regenerative amplifiers are designed for long service lifetimes and reduced maintenance intervals. By combining robust performance with high power and high repetition rates, High Q Laser’s pico- and femtosecond allin-one regenerative amplifiers are perfect tools for a variety of nano and micro processing applications ranging from solar cell structuring and scribing to thin film ablation, hole drilling, precision cutting and tissue ablation.