"Unique relationship" will speed up the certification process for NFFS members The Non-Ferrous Founders' Society and TUV Rheinland have agreed to provide accredited management systems certification to NFFS member companies for ISO9001:2008 and other management system, safety, environmental, automotive, aerospace, and medical product standards. This partnership will expedite the ISO9001 certification…

Gusswerk Waltenhofen Allgäu, South-Germany: the works council and the labour union IG Metall, symbolically handed over a demand for payment of "at least 1 Mio. € " to former chief executives Dr. Ruja Ignatova and Plamen Ignatov. They are accused of having exploited the company for their private benefit. also available in German

The foundation, which is managed by the TU Bergakademie Freiberg, supports the practice-oriented training and research of future engineers with, among other things, a "tailor-made scholarship" for the promotion of young scientists and a "Prof. Eckart Flemming Prize "for outstanding doctoral theses, diploma theses, master theses or student papers. Prof. Dr. Wolf-Dieter Schneider has long been associated with…

Tool sales surge 10% in the first half, but ongoing concerns squelch optimism. Wolfgang Sengebusch, head of the precision tools division at the German engineering federation VDMA, said sector production will grow the expected 7% to a record of around €11 billion this year from €10.2 billion in 2011 despite a growth estimate of only 2% for the entire German mechanical engineering industry. At a press…

Germany’s Industry Federation of Mechanical Engineers (VDMA) will participate in a lecture programme from the am4u stage at formnext powered by tct 2017, Frankfurt, Germany, November 14-17. The am4u platform at formnext is designed to combine opportunities for careers and networking for the Additive Manufacturing industry, and the am4u stage will feature a lecture programme from a range of Additive…

According to the current autumn survey of member companies, the VDMA Air Handling Technology Association expects a 7 percent drop in sales for the industry for the whole of 2020. For the machinery and plant engineering sector, the VDMA anticipates a 14 percent drop in production in 2020. According to the Federal Statistical Office of Germany, production in the air handling technology sector fell by 4…

Data for sector performance expected on 15 January. Lothar Horn has been reelected to a second three-year term as chairman of the German Precision Tools Association, according to its parent organisation, the German engineering federation VDMA. Horn, the managing director of German tool house Paul Horn GmbH, Tübingen, thanked association members for their support after his reelection at a meeting in Hamburg,…

Germany’s machinery and plant producers are bracing themselves for a sharp downturn in production and job cuts.The reason they were hit by the heftiest drop in demand in 50 years in the fourth quarter of 2008. Production in the sector was set to fall by 7 per cent and up to 25,000 jobs could be shed this year as more companies were facing insolvency, VDMA, the German engineering organisation, said on…

Robotics and automation grow like never before “We are very pleased with the extraordinary financial year 2011 and we are also extremely satisfied with the current order income,” says Dr Michael Wenzel, Managing Director of Reis Group Holding GmbH & Co. KG and Chairman of the Board of VDMA Robotics + Automation, at the press conference held on Tuesday on the occasion of AUTOMATICA in Munich. The industry…

A Frankfurt hotel with a faulty heating system seemed like a fitting site for the VDW (German Machine Tool Builders’ Association) to predict a cooling of this year’s growth rate for machine tool production following a record rise in 2011. Speaking at the association’s annual press conference, VDW Chairman Martin Kapp said German machine tool manufacturing jumped 33% last year, but growth will slow to 5% in…