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  • VTC800 30HD
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    Heavy-duty vertical travelling column machining centres

    2014-06-20T09:22:30Z

    Yamazaki Mazak has developed a new heavy duty version of its UK-built VTC 800 series of vertical travelling column machining centres. The VTC 800/30HD is a 50 taper variant that the company says provides a suitable platform for cutting hard-to-machine materials, such as Inconel and titanium. Mazak claims this machining ...

  • The new three-cylinder Pure Tech engine
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    PSA: Fábrica de motores de Douvrin

    2014-05-27T15:10:51Z

    A Peugeot começa a produção de seu novo motor 1.2 litros de três cilindros com injeção diretaA fábrica de motores Française de Mécanique, no noroeste da França, já construiu mais de 48 milhões de unidades de energia para a PSA Peugeot Citroën, Renault e Volvo desde a sua criação em ...

  • The new three-cylinder Pure Tech engine
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    Peugeot: fábrica de motores de Douvrin

    2014-05-27T08:11:54Z

    Peugeot comienza la producción de su nuevo motor de inyección directa, tres cilindros y 1,2 litros La fábrica del motor Française de Mécanique en el noroeste de Francia ha fabricado más de 48 millones de motores para PSA Peugeot Citroën, Renault y Volvo desde su fundación en 1969, pero ...

  • The new three-cylinder Pure Tech engine
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    Turbo-powering PSA Douvrin

    2014-05-21T17:33:17Z

    Peugeot starts making its new 1.2-litre, three-cylinder direct-injection engine at Française de MécaniqueThe Française de Mécanique engine factory in Douvrin, north-west France, has built more than 48m power units for PSA Peugeot Citroën, Renault and Volvo since its inception in 1969, but arguably none has been more significant than the ...

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    Assessing Datacolor’s 45G portable spectrophotometer

    2012-03-01T15:22:41Z

    Datacolor has revealed its 45G portable spectrophotometer, which controls colour and appearance in complex manufacturing supply chains, producing measurement results that correlate better to visual assessment. For items with multiple visible components such as automobiles, achieving colour harmony is complicated by the need to visually match those components. For example, ...

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    Helmet of choice

    2010-03-01T16:29:48Z

    AMS speaks to producers and end users of Sperian Welding to find out which features and innovations have made these some of the most popular helmets available on the market. Advances in plant safety are often most apparent in automation control, robot, conveyor and transport systems. Yet one of the ...

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    Germany plans for success

    2009-09-01T14:43:41Z

    Numbers fall but strengths emergeExports and emissionsTruck and bus – how fast is the barometer falling?Suppliers under pressureBMW – quiet confidence behind cost cutsMercedes-Benz – sharing the painThe German car industry’s workforce has been dealt a bad hand by the global downturn; jobs that were almost guaranteed for life have ...