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Ellis Patents has held its highly anticipated Distributors’ Conference for 2023. This was the first time the company was able to host this long-awaited, usually triennial, landmark event since 2017. Distributors from across the world, including New Zealand, Spain, Peru, Turkey, Poland, France, Norway, Austria, Saudi Arabia, Denmark, Dubai, USA, Netherlands, Singapore, Belgium, the UK,…
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As Autumn takes its colourful hold, gear up with Carhartt‘s latest collection of work pants, water-repellent sweatshirts and insulated vests, designed to tackle the demands of any job site. Whether you’re scaling scaffolding or manoeuvring through tight spaces, the Rugged Flex Relaxed Fit Canvas Work Pants (103109) are engineered to handle it all. Made from…
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ARMD has warned the industry that as darker winter evenings draw in, tool theft increases dramatically. In fact, looking at the insurance claims made by the trade, the winter months are the busiest months for insurance claims by tradespeople who have fallen victim to tool theft. “Winter provides the veil of darkness thieves use to break…
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This heating season, Drayton has announced that it is giving installers even more reasons to choose its new Digistat range. With the new Digistat designed to cut call backs, thanks to the simple app control via Bluetooth that makes it easy for customers to manage their schedules, Drayton has partnered with Fix Radio to find…
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The magic of music has been a secret weapon in the workplace, helping boost tradespeople’s brain activity and turn up the volume on productivity. But when it comes down to it, what do tradespeople listen to at work? Well, according to the Toolbox’s research, green thumbed gardeners love working along to tunes about balmy weather, which…
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Image courtesy 123rf Norway’s Rystad Energy finds that the power market in Australia is now the most volatile in the world, partly due to transmission line issues stemming from natural disasters. According to the energy research company, these issues – the result of natural disasters such as cyclonic winds or bushfires, which have become more…
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Resideo Technologies has announced the introduction of its connected ProSeries Security and Life Safety platform to Europe. The platform has been developed for residential and small business applications and is modular by design, incorporating seamless hardware, software, an app and associated services. By connecting life safety products, including smoke and CO detectors, ProSeries provides peace…
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There is no way around automation if companies want to stand their ground in the face of a shortage of skilled workers, tight margins and ever-shorter time-to-market. In this context, cameras are indispensable. IDS is one of the market leaders in the field of industrial image processing. The company is hosting the online event “InsightImaging”…
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The automotive supply chain consistently faces pressure to increase productivity and reduce costs. A risk to productivity on press lines is the potential for a press to be accidentally fed two or more sheets rather than one, there is also a danger of this causing expensive damage to the press tools. Double-sheet detection systems which…
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Image courtesy Hitachi Energy Swiss tech major Hitachi Energy has acquired eks Energy in a strategic move to add power and electronics and energy management software to their ever-growing portfolio. The move is hoped to enable them to tap into the global energy storage market, coming in as Dutch company Skoon announces a successful Series…
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