The Rubix Motion, Control and Automation (MCA) division will be coming together for the first time to exhibit at MachineBuilding.Live on 4 October 2023 at the National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham.

Parker Hannifin’s Filtration business has reached a major milestone on the journey towards mass production of hollow fibre membrane technology for fuel cell humidification applications, a vital step towards reducing carbon emissions.

RS is celebrating the award-winning success of three of the teams it supported at the recent UK Formula Student 25-year milestone event. Sixty-one teams subjected their single-seat race car prototypes to rigorous testing at Silverstone race track in Northamptonshire, in the annual challenge organised by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE).

ABB has delivered ABB Ability Expert Optimizer process control system to control, stabilise and optimise industrial processes at the Tokuyama Nanyo cement plant in Japan.

To provide customers with the latest technology, WEG has expanded its operations to the Eastern Europe and southwestern Asia market with the opening of a new facility in Dilovasi, Kocaeli, Turkey.

With its ECO service, Nord helps companies to find the most efficient drive solution for their application. Not only energy consumption and CO₂ emissions but also the costs for administration, maintenance and wear can be reduced by using suitable drive systems.

When a meat processing plant operator needed a solution to check that transportation bins had been emptied prior to being sent to an automated wash station, it turned to Contrinex. An ultrasonic sensor mounted above a conveyor looks down into the bins and diverts contaminated bins from proceeding to the wash station.

See Copa-Data at MachineBuilding.Live, 4 October 2023, on stand 64

Rolec’s aluDOOR industrial electronic enclosures have gained a Special Mention in the German Innovation Awards. Judges praised the “high added value for users”.

A team of UK process engineers has developed a technique for manufacturing collagen sausage casings which protects product quality and trebles output. The process relies on precise monitoring of temperature and humidity with Vaisala sensors, combined with multi-stage feedback control.