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  • Nestlé’s water and premium beverages to become standalone business as firm plots growth

    Laurent Freixe, Nestlé CEO. Posted: 19 November 2024 Share this page Nestlé’s waters and premium beverages operations will become a standalone global business as part of the food and drink manufacturer’s action plan to fuel and accelerate growth. Laurent Freixe, Nestlé CEO, said the move provides the opportunity to unlock the full potential of its…


  • Microchip to Accelerate Real-time Edge AI with NVIDIA Holoscan

    To enable developers building artificial intelligence (AI)-driven sensor processing systems, Microchip Technology has released its PolarFire® FPGA Ethernet Sensor Bridge that works with the NVIDIA Holoscan sensor processing platform. PolarFire FPGAs enable multi-protocol support, and this first solution to be released as part of Microchip’s platform is compatible with MIPI® CSI-2®-based sensors and the MIPI…


  • Mark Shanley from Astute at electronica 2024

    Andy Pratt on behalf of What’s New in Electronics TV talks to Mark Shanley from Astute at electronica 2024. [embedded content] WNIE TV is kindly sponsored by Astute, Koh Young Technology, Adaptsys, International, CCL, Softei, ART, and Scienscope..


  • Poland’s Tauron taps flexibility services for DER management

    Map and flag of Poland. Image courtesy 123rf Polish DSO Tauron Dystrybucja has signed the first agreement for the provision of flexibility services. The flexibility services, says Tauron in a release, are mainly aimed at commercial customers who, without losses, can reduce energy consumption at specific times, eliminating excessive load on the network, or increase…


  • Smurfit Westrock supports Lismore’s sustainability goals

    Smurfit Westrock is helping Lismore with sustainability goals through the use of luxurious cardboard tube packaging. The Lismore range of Speyside malts is one of WM Lundie & Co.’s most cherished offerings. Created with recipes passed on by the Lundie family, the traditions and craftsmanship that were originally created by them continue today. With a…


  • Wall’s Pastry heats up the competition in the hot pie market

    Wall’s Deep Dish Pizza Pie range. Posted: 19 November 2024 Share this page Wall’s Pastry has unveiled a new Deep Dish Pizza Pie, heating up the competition in the hot pie market. The sausage roll brand has introduced a brand-new format to the hot pie fixture with the launch of its Deep Dish Pizza Pies,…


  • Tummers Food Processing Solutions establishes presence in USA

    Tummers Food Processing Solutions has announced the opening of its new branch in the United States, operating (since may 2024) under the statutory name Tummers USA Inc. The trade name will remain Tummers Food Processing Solutions. This expansion fulfils a long-held dream and will enable Tummers to better serve the US market with “greater speed…


  • Oman’s OAPIL ventures into advanced conductor manufacturing

    Image courtesy 123rf Oman Aluminum Processing Industries SPC (OAPIL) and France’s Epsilon Composite have partnered together to produce High Voltage Composite Reinforced Conductors (HVCRC), a category of advanced High Temperature Low Sag (HTLS) conductors. For the partnership, OAPIL, a subsidiary of Oman Cables Industry SAOG, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with French carbon fibre…


  • Declining competitiveness of Europe’s industries threatens the transition to a circular plastics economy

    Recent data indicates a continued decline in European plastics manufacturing, while recycled plastics production has now dropped for the first time. Plastics Europe’s latest data on the health of the European plastics system highlights a steeper-than-expected downturn in the production of plastics and, for the first time, in mechanically recycled plastics production in 2023 in…


  • Declining competitiveness of Europe’s industries threatens the transition to a circular economy

    Recent data indicates a continued decline in European plastics manufacturing, while recycled plastics production has now dropped for the first time. Plastics Europe’s latest data on the health of the European plastics system highlights a steeper-than-expected downturn in the production of plastics and, for the first time, in mechanically recycled plastics production in 2023 in…