Essentra Components has completed the switch within its UK manufacturing and distribution centre in Kidlington to using paper-based packaging. The new packaging contains recycled content and is widely recyclable after use, supporting both its own and its customers’ ambitions for a more sustainable future.

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In a bid to help grow the adhesives, dispensing, and curing technology knowledge base of British manufacturing companies, Intertonics is offering seminars for customers under the adhere academy brand.

Ultra-reliable is the only standard acceptable when it comes to building, testing and maintaining water pumps for fire fighting. To ensure all of its pumps are fully able to provide maximum performance under all circumstances, Ruhrpumpen has built a dedicated fire pump centre and fitted its test-rig with torque sensors from Sensor Technology.

A manufacturer of optical components was faced with an assembly challenge, needing an adhesive not only that could be applied around the complete diameter of the part, but one which also contained a pigment such that the application of the adhesive could be checked by camera before the next stage of the process. For a solution, the company turned to Advanced Adhesives.

Omron’s Stuart Coulton will be discussing the benefits of automated feeding during his presentation at MachineBuilding.Live. The workshop, titled ‘Increasing Productivity by Minimising Changeover Times’, is set to cover a wide range of topics including automated feeding.

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