MTA VIETNAM 2012 Post Show Report

Vietnam’s leading trade show for the manufacturing solutions industry, MTA VIETNAM2012, closed on a high note on 6 July 2012. The show recorded a total of more than 10,000 attendees, including trade visitors, exhibiting staff, conference delegates and speakers, and members of the press. Featuring a wide range of quality products and technologies from renowned international brands, this year’s MTA VIETNAM is the most comprehensive yet.

Anthony Evan, International Metalworking News for Asia's correspondent in Ho Chi Mihn, Vietnam, spoke to a number of exhibitors about the products they have on offer, and their history and experiences operating in the Vietnamese market. You can find this in the next month's issue of the magazine, so be sure to watch out for it. In the meantime, I'm sharing with you the link of our Facebook account, www.facebook.com/RingierMetals, here you will find pictures from the recent event taken by Anthony, and a news article on our website.

We are now International Metalworking News – Middle East & Africa (IMNEA)

In this month's issue of our Middle East magazine, you will notice that we are now International Metalworking News – Middle East & Africa (IMNEA). Although we feature North Africa in some occasions in the past, our magazine now features balance of contents from Middle East and Africa.
To start, several interesting long reports on Africa can be seen in this month’s line-up.

In the Welding section you can read a new analysis from  Frost & Sullivan, titled "Strategic Analysis of the South African Welding Solutions Market" which finds that the market was worth US$333.9 million in 2010 and estimates this to reach US$410.9 million in 2017. The demand for welding solutions is expected to sustain by an anticipated rise in manufacturing sector output, continued power plant construction activities and a rise in demand for repair and maintenance jobs within the process industries.

Africa Special Industry Report section shows the key to unlocking Nigeria’s potential. The Nigerian Federal Government has set itself the target of growing the country’s economy to become the biggest in Africa, as well as one of the top 20 largest (by GDP) in the world by 2020. In order for Nigeria to achieve her growth goals, the country will need to undergo an unprecedented level of infrastructure overhaul and development.

On the news front: The past decade of stagnation and decline in South Africa’s mining sector is set to end as several projects across the region’s vast mineral wealth come online in the next five years. South Africa’s mining sector value is expected to reach US$30.9 billion by 2016, from US$27 billion in 2011.

Lastly, we want to know what you think about this month’s editorial line-up on Africa. If you have any suggestions on how to improve our editorial or topics you want to be featured, feel free to email us at: kathryn@ringiertrade.com. Your insights are important to us.

JK Lasers’ message using a 400W single mode fiber laser

As the U.S. celebrates the adoption of the declaration of independence, global industrial laser manufacturer JK Lasers has ablated a celebratory message using a 400W single mode, continuous wave fiber laser and scan head.

The red and blue anodised aluminium plates measuring 1mm thick were ablated at a scan speed of 3m per second (1 pass) to reveal the American flag and the message ‘Happy Independence Day from JK Lasers’.

The process was filmed and is available to view on JK Lasers’ YouTube channel.

Ablation trials carried out by JK Lasers have demonstrated that the JK400FL is particularly effective at removing thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) on jet engines and gas turbines.

By modulating the power, TBCs were removed cleanly and removal rates in stainless steel were increased eight times. For more information, download JK Lasers’ white paper ‘High Quality Ablation Using a 400W Fiber Laser’ for free from www.jklasers.com/news-events/whitepapers.