Materials
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Amcor is backing a UK accelerator for high-growth beauty brands. The programme links packaging expertise with founders seeking retail listings, community growth, and investor attention.
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Xaar will demonstrate digital battery coating at The Battery Show. The company says inkjet deposition can improve precision, flexibility, and reliability for next-generation EV and energy storage cell manufacturing.
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Stonhard has introduced Stonchem 691 for conductive chemical protection applications. The epoxy coating uses carbon nanotube technology to combine electrostatic discharge performance with resistance to aggressive chemicals in process and chemical engineering environments.
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Amcor says feed producers are rethinking packaging under regulatory pressure. The company points to FFS and SWS films, recyclability, and recycled content as producers balance filling speeds, durability, and evolving compliance demands.
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Tadweld says rising business costs are restricting manufacturing reinvestment plans. The steelwork manufacturer calculates that one 50-person SME contributes more than £1.2 million annually to HMRC before profit taxation.
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SICK’s Flexi Soft has unified safety control across steel processing. Safety Systems Technology used the modular controller to link machines and conveyors across one of the UK’s largest span configurable safety projects.
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Construction now sits closer to industrial capacity and infrastructure delivery. The latest IN Site issue connects data centres, battery manufacturing, nuclear support works, supplier cyber resilience, and material choices.
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Essentra has passed its 2030 emissions target five years early. The components manufacturer has cut scope one and two emissions by 62% against its 2019 baseline, supported by renewable electricity, zero-waste progress, and recycled-material product development.
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Sandvik Coromant has launched GC1240 for stainless steel milling applications. The nano-multilayer PVD-coated indexable grade is built to improve edge stability, resist thermal cracking, and support predictable tool life in wet and dry machining conditions.
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Parker Prädifa has developed adaptive seals for tolerance compensation applications. Its Warp Seal product family is built to seal ports, feedthroughs, and plug connections where large tolerance chains make conventional static sealing harder to apply reliably.
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