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New President for Sandvik Materials Technology
Peter Gossas, president of
Sandvik Materials Technology
for nine years, will
retire and leave the Sandvik
Group on May 31, 2011.
Jonas Gustavsson (pictured),
currently president of the
Wire and Heating Technology
product area within
Sandvik Materials Technology,
has been appointed as
the business division’s new
president. He also becomes
a member of Sandvik’s group executive management.
Sandvik Materials Technology is the Sandvik business
area that supplies metalworking materials. It occupies a
position within the group equivalent to that of Sandvik
Coromant, the cutting-tools division.
Gustavsson, who earned a degree in mechanical engineering
from Luleå Technical University, has acquired solid
industry experience by holding senior positions within and
outside Sandvik. Says Olof Faxander, president and CEO of
Sandvik AB: “With his broad background and proven ability
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Faxander also acknowledges the achievements of Gossas,
noting that the outgoing president could take credit
for moving the product programme increasingly toward
high-value-added products, improving manufacturing processes
and stepping up product development.
» Sandvik Coromant Europe
Zaventem, Belgium
www.sandvik.coromant.com
Mastercam for
SolidWorks Wins
Gold Partner Status
The Mastercam for SolidWorks ® software package
developed by CNC Software Inc. to support Solid-
Works ® 3D CAD software has been awarded Certified
Gold Partner status by Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks
Corp. Designers, engineers and machinists use Mastercam
for SolidWorks software to programme tool
paths after designs have been finished in SolidWorks.
The tool paths are applied directly to the SolidWorks
model in their native environment. Thus, users of
Mastercam for SolidWorks and SolidWorks 2011 in
combination can employ Mastercam ® CAM technology
to create a machining programme without leaving
the SolidWorks interface.
“With our tool paths running directly in the Solid-
Works environment, our users will feel comfortable
programming their parts, just as if they were in standard
Mastercam,” explains CNC Software marketing
manager Ben Mund. “The beauty is that now they
can run those tool paths inside of SolidWorks, without
the hassle of exporting files and handling the
translation.”
The point of the cooperation, as Nick Iwaskow,
SolidWorks’ manager of alliances, points out, is that
“integration between key product design applications
can shave precious time off of the development
process and increase productivity.” Ultimately,
designers and engineers can improve their designs.
» CNC Software Inc.
Tolland, CT, USA
www.mastercam.com
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