Sustainable development of tool and mouldmaking industry requires new visions and a higher degree of cooperation among the suppliers and with the buyers

ISTMA (International Special Tooling & Machining Association) is an international organisation uniting 24 national tool and mouldmaking associations from all over the world. It includes more than 8.000 companies, selling 40 billion $ of products and services each year. ISTMA is divided to three branches: European, Asian and American.

Iztok Kramaršek, ISOKON d.o.o.
Company ISOKON d.o.o. from Slovenske Konjice processes thermoplastic materials by extrusion, pressing and mechanical treatment.

A state-of-the-art center point of toolmaking industry in Slovenia
Ravne Steel Center d.o.o. (RSC) is a selling and warehousing center that offers steels, mechanical and heat treatment to tool makers. RSC is accompanied by companies STEEL d.o.o. and TKS d.o.o., which cover technologically demanding heat treatment and welding programmes for the tool and mouldmaking industry.

The Jožef Stefan Institute recently published a scientific monograph in Slovenian language titled “Zaščita orodij s trdimi PVD-prevlekami” (Protecting tools with hard PVD-coatings).

Špela Stres
The mankind has been dreaming for decades about communication that wouldn’t be hindered by the numerous world languages.

Esad Jakupović
The CES event grew to become the largest business fair in the USA and the largest consumer electronics event in the world.

Marko Oreškovič, Jože Weingartner, Andrej Glojek, Matjaž Rot
At the end of 2005, the twelfth international trade EUROMOLD fair was held under the title From Design to Prototyping to Series Production.

The most wanted profiles in Slovenia are mechanical, electrical, IT and civil engineers.

In the time of discussions about reforms and the future, Igor Akrapovič, the owner of company Akrapovič, is the figure personifying everything that awaits us in the future, according to newspaper Delo.

MLM slowly coming out of red numbers  

The amount of realisation 15.8 billion SIT is stimulating, the planned realisation for 2006 is 19 billion SIT.

Helena Tušar, Hidria

Assessment and rewarding innovation in company Rotomatika attracts more and more employees each year to submit their innovative proposals.

Esad Jakupović, Denis Šenkinc
3D-printers enable computer designed three-dimensional products to quickly materialise Printers that print computer designed products have been in use for over a decade in automotive and defense industry, architecture, education and elsewhere.