Image caption: New investment for Ford Cologne Electrification Centre for the manufacture of electric vehicles, Ford’s first such facility in Europe.

“One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, the accumulating human toll continues to raise concerns, even as growing vaccine coverage lifts sentiment. High uncertainty surrounds the global economic outlook, primarily related to the path of the pandemic.

Caption for above image: Martin Lundstedt, President and CEO, Volvo Group.

Image caption above: Deep drawn metal parts (source: New England Metalform, Inc.)

“The EuroBLECH Digital Innovation Series 2021 will provide an essential marketplace and business platform for the international sheet metal working industry. It will deliver a set of targeted curated digital events and offer exhibitors the opportunity to introduce new products and machines as well as feature their latest developments and innovations,” EuroBLECH organiser, Mack Brooks Exhibitions, told ISMR.

The addition of a new hydroform deep draw press from Quintus Technologies brings increased capacity, flexibility and production efficiencies to aerospace parts manufacturer, Aeroforma Technologies.