International Metalworking News- Middle East & Africa January Issue

International Metalworking News- Middle East & Africa presents its first edition for this 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 section.

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 in people’s minds 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. Material is consolidated exactly where it is required to accept and conduct stresses.