ABB has been selected by GreenIron, an innovative Swedish company working in the mining and metals industries with its patented materials reduction technology, to provide automation and control system solutions for a first commercial facility in Sandviken, Sweden.

With its constant determination to make people's work easier and thus increase efficiency, Festo has shaped an entire era of industrial production, and is now celebrating its 100th anniversary.

Siemens has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Manufacturing Execution Systems 2024–2025 Vendor Assessment - a report which evaluates software providers in the MES market serving the manufacturing industry.

When Tronosjet Manufacturing wanted to boost its additive manufacturing (AM) capabilities and achieve regulatory compliance for its metallic aerospace parts, it turned to global engineering technologies company Renishaw for support.

Paragon Rapid Technologies manufactures a wide variety of precision-engineered parts using a variety of CNC and 3D printing techniques. When the company needed to replace its ageing on-site nitrogen generator with a new model that would be more efficient and achieve the high purity required in its selective laser sintering process, it turned to Atlas Copco.

Schneider Electric has been named the World's Most Sustainable Corporation 2025 by Corporate Knights and is the only company to rank first in the Global 100 twice.

To speed up an end-of-line packaging station, a manufacturer wanted a simple and affordable measurement system to establish the height of incoming boxes. It turned to Contrinex.

Farnell's new interview series, "Top Tech Voices" asks author, futurologist and techno-optimist Professor Dominik Boesl: What does a future of robotics and automation working alongside human beings actually look like?

Veolia Water Technologies Ireland, a long-established provider of water treatment solutions and services for municipal, industrial, scientific and healthcare markets, recently opened its Life Science Centre of Excellence near Dublin in Ireland. Designed to provide training for internal engineers as well as customers, the new facility is fully equipped with the latest cutting-edge technology for water purification and distillation, including a water analysis system from Burkert.

MachineBuilding.North takes place at the Concorde Centre, Runway Visitor Park, Manchester on Thursday 10 April, and you're invited to pre-register now for a VIP Visitor badge to attend with.