Articles published in Manufacturing Today
The Indian market for material handling equipment (MHE) has witnessed significant growth, and has accounted for about 13% market share of the country’s construction equipment industry. Increased infrastructure investment, emphasis on the manufacturing sector’s growth, introduction of automation in MHE and adherence to safe practices in the country are fueling the sector’s growth. The performance… Read More Material Handling
A relatively new development in high-speed machining activities in India is the introduction of highly specialised technical centres that are set up by key manufacturers/ vendors to broadcast the capabilities of their products. They offer the service to their clients or prospective clients, who can use such facilities to test out their prototypes or get… Read More Manufacturing Tech Centers
The industrial lubricants and coolants is changing with the emergence of high performance, synthetic, water soluble and better lubricity options that are emerging. A key factor that is also guiding the coolants and lubricants space is the consideration of environmental protection. This assumes increased importance in the context of manufacturing of machine industrial products, which… Read More Coolants & Lubricants
As the world moves to an ‘Auto’ mode, it is but natural that the manufacturing sector is making a shift to adopt automation and robotics like never before. Bindu Gopal Rao While automation was once spurned due to the large amount of human resource in the country, today this is changing. Progressive ministers in the… Read More Automation & Robotics
Machining technologies have undergone a major change in the recent past, both globally as well as in India, with a clear shift towards more cutting age and superior options. While India continues to remain dependent on imports for more sophisticated technologies in machine tools, the availability of these advanced technologies only means that there is… Read More Machining Technologies
Roofing innovations are helping address the issues raised by traditional materials, be it installation time, labour, durability, sound and temperature insulation, design flexibility and other aspects. Branded products offer standard quality and dimensions. Likewise, waterproofing is an inherent part of roofing. Done carefully during the installation stage itself, there are several kinds of waterproofing available… Read More Roofing & Waterproofing
Oils that Matter Prompted by improved consumer spend, infrastructure development and increased investment by OEMs to support the manufacturing sector, the coolants and lubricants industry in India is witnessing rapid growth potential. With the regulator pushing to implement stringent controls on emissions in order to improve air quality, product development in the coolants and lubricants… Read More Coolants & Lubricants
Steel has always been a popular construction material owing to its many merits, right from its easy availability, speed of assembly, design flexibility, and so on. In fact, the material has recently caught the fancy of many users, who have turned to steel buildings as a safe, low-maintenance and high-quality alternative to traditional construction materials.… Read More All About Steel
Additive Manufacturing (AM) refers to a set of technologies that build 3D objects by adding materials layer-upon-layer of different kinds whether metal, concrete or plastic. Using 3D modeling software and machine equipment and layering material, the AM equipment reads in data from the CAD file and adds successive layers to fabricate a 3D object. AM… Read More Additive Manufacturing
India is inching closer to becoming the second largest steel producer in the world, according to a recent statement by the Honourable Steel Minister. The New Steel Policy 2017 calls for the domestic industry to double its steel-making capacity to 300 million tonnes by 2030-31. Ratings agency ICRA has said that in the first nine… Read More Steel Industry