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  • AMETEK Land updates industry team structure with key appointments to solve customer process challenges

    AMETEK Land, a world-leading manufacturer of highly accurate infrared pyrometers, scanners, and thermal imagers, has introduced a new industry team structure to transform its approach to its customers, products, and solutions. The changes will mean a continued focus on global industrial solutions, and a drive to help customers meet their industry challenges. James Cross has…


  • Simple Workflow system brings efficiency and productivity savings for igus

     Based in Northampton in the UK, and with global headquarters in Cologne, Germany, igus® is the largest producer of injection moulded polymer bearings and reinforced plastic cable carriers in the world.  The comprehensive range of maintenance-free, wear resistant products have been tested and proven to last through real life and simulated applications and environments, tested…


  • Portugal’s E-REDES invests in municipal distribution initiatives

    Image courtesy E-REDES Portuguese grid operator E-REDES has announced two investments of €350,000 and €150,000 to improve distribution power quality in the municipalities of Braga and Vila Verde respectively. The first investment of €350,000 (approximately $379,000) will go towards modifying the medium voltage overhead network to promote a more environmentally efficient network. To this end,…


  • California’s PG&E tapped 8,500 residential batteries for grid resilience

    Image courtesy 123rf Peaking at nearly 32MW from 8,500 solar-plus-storage residential systems, Sunrun and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) customer batteries provided consistent clean energy to California’s power grid through the summer and fall of 2023. The virtual grid supply came courtesy of the partnership’s Energy Efficiency Summer Reliability Program, also known as Peak…


  • Researchers at Drexel University develop AI-enhanced system for automated infrastructure inspection

    Researchers at Drexel University have developed an system that harnesses the power of AI and computer vision to address the task of ascertaining infrastructure integrity. This new approach, aimed at detecting fissures in concrete, paves the way for robots to undertake the scanning, modelling, and monitoring of ageing infrastructure, marking a significant leap forward in…


  • Bühler unifies the protein value chain with the launch of Protein Application Center

    Bühler and Endeco have unveiled a cutting-edge Protein Application Center in Uzwil, as part of the company’s expanded food innovation capabilities. The center completes the technology solutions necessary to go from pulses or grains to finished consumer products, such as dairy or meat replacements, or for intermediate ingredients, such as proteins, fibres, or starches. With…


  • Cargill achieves milestone: first global edible oils supplier to meet WHO’s best practice

    As of the start of this year, every Cargill food customer, no matter where they are in the world, can be confident that the company’s fats and oils comply with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommended maximum tolerance level for industrially produced trans-fatty acids (iTFA) in fats and oils. Cargill said it achieved this milestone…


  • Innovate UK backs Campden BRI and Cellular Agriculture with funding for cultivated meat project

    Campden BRI and innovative tissue engineering and bioreactor specialist, Cellular Agriculture have won funding for a project that aims to optimise, test and validate the scalability of hollow-fibre bioreactors to produce cultivated meat products. The grant from Innovate UK and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) is part of a £15.6 million investment…


  • North Star to provide new-build hybrid SOV for EnBW’s He Dreiht wind farm

    UK SOV operator North Star has secured a contract with energy company EnBW to deliver a new hybrid-electric service operations vessel on a decade-long minimum charter to service the He Dreiht wind farm off the coast of Germany. The agreement marks North Star’s first offshore wind project outside the UK market – and a key…


  • Vetropack’s 0.33L returnable bottle poised to transform Austrian brewing industry

    Not only lighter, but also robust: thanks to their stability and improved resistance to scuffing, the new standard bottles can be refilled up to 20 per cent more often. © Vetropack Holding Ltd / Schafranek Foto & Film Posted: 2 February 2024 Share this page Vetropack Group together with Brau Union Österreich is presenting a…