Demonstrating how automation can help manufacturers address the key challenges facing their business today – namely cost pressures, sustainability targets, and labour shortages – FANUC UK will bring together the country’s leading names from the world of robotics and automation for a three-day showcase event at its Coventry HQ this November.

Rockwell Automation has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ontario, Canada-based Clearpath Robotics, a leader in autonomous robotics for industrial applications.

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.

See COPA-DATA at MachineBuilding.Live, 4 October 2023, on stand 64

See Leuze at MachineBuilding.Live, 4 October 2023, on stand 52

See Igus at MachineBuilding.Live, 4 October 2023, on stand 20

See Schaeffler at MachineBuilding.Live, 4 October 2023, on stand 69

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.