Manufacturing Innovation (Page 7)

Currently, recycling industrial scrap metal is expensive, messy, and inefficient. Nevertheless, the goal of reducing the 25 million tons of metal waste produced each year remains top priority in the manufacturing industry. EWI has developed a new scrap metal recycling method that consolidates and extrudes a metal byproduct suitable for industrial re-use faster and in...

EWI is pleased to welcome Incipio Devices to membership. The manufacturer of orthopedic implants and instrumentation provides solution-driven approaches to commercial products, contract manufacturing, and development out of offices in Huntington, Indiana, and St-Blaise, Switzerland.

Welding of dissimilar polymers is becoming more commonplace in manufacturing. There are several key reasons for this trend.  First, many new plastics are being used in environments where adhesives cannot be easily applied. Typical examples include medical products for which finding adhesives that pass FDA regulations and join materials with low surface energy (like polyolefins)...