Industrial News
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Published: 21 August, 2024 The National Composites Centre (NCC) has announced that Scottish Renewables will be joining the SusWIND Steering Board. SusWIND is a collaborative innovation programme focused on creating a viable circular economy for wind turbine blades. Launched in 2021 by the NCC, in partnership with the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult, the programme…
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In semiconductor production, high precision is essential. A critical stage is the lapping of the blanks, which ensures a uniform thickness. In order to continuously monitor the wafer thickness, white light interferometers are ideally suitable, says Glenn Wedgbrow Many process steps are required before semiconductor chips can be made from silicon. First, slices around one…
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Listen to this article In 2018, the opportunity to electrify East West Rail (EWR) at low cost as it was built was lost when then Transport Minister declared that neither electrification nor diesel trains were needed as EWR will have “a completely new generation of low-emissions trains.” Despite commitments in the Integrated Rail and Decarbonising…
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Listen to this article A recent report by the National Audit Office (NAO), titled ‘HS2: update following the cancellation of phase 2’, has concluded that the Department for Transport (DfT) does not know how to maximise the benefits of HS2 now that phase 2 to Manchester has been cancelled. It notes that most of HS2’s…
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Listen to this article Whatever your political views, it is undeniable that the new Labour government has a different approach to its predecessor. Here, we consider what this might mean for the nation’s railways, which were not a key factor in the election campaign. The transport promises A cash-strapped new government has far greater priorities…
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Listen to this article Under current plans, in about seven years’ time HS2 trains from Old Oak Common (OOC) will join the West Coast Main Line (WCML) at Handsacre Junction just north of Lichfield. These trains will replace most of the WCML long distance trains that currently start at London Euston as this line is…
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Listen to this article West Midlands Trains (WMT) is the operator of suburban services radiating from Euston as well as operating inter-urban services from Euston to Crewe and Birmingham New Street to Liverpool Lime Street under the London Northwestern Railway brand (LNR). In addition to suburban services radiating from Birmingham New Street under the West…
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Listen to this article At last year’s Railway Challenge, the chief judge, Bill Reeve announced that without doubt it had been the best challenge yet. This year he said the same thing, and the scores showed that this was no mere repetition. Indeed, this year’s challenge was the first in which all the locomotives present…
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Tektronix, Inc. announces the launch of the TAP1500L, an active, single-ended probe equipped with a seven-metre probe cable. A modification to the existing TAP1500 active single-ended probe, this new version features a cable that is 5.7 metres longer than the original. The TAP1500L addresses a critical need for engineers: the ability to perform automated tests…
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IDS Imaging Development Systems introduces a new 3D camera in the Ensenso product line. With its compact, industrial-grade design and the combination of a very short working distance and a large field of view, the Ensenso B is particularly suitable for bin picking applications. Thanks to its high depth of field, it is able to…
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