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Pasta Nostra is aiming to stir up the instant snack pots category with the launch of six healthy pasta pots, made in Italy. Pasta Nostra’s authentic Italian fusilli pasta is made from natural ingredients, using a high-quality preparation process to create a premium product with a distinctive flavour profile to stimulate interest in a category, which…
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Listen to this article With the European summer hopefully just around the corner, engineers must consider how best to manage the risk of heat-related track buckle. Established measures include targeted (and disruptive) speed reductions and (expensive) human observation of the track to detect and report lateral movement. They also include localised temperature monitoring, but this…
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Image: Hitachi Hitachi has entered into a three-year partnership with Microsoft to embed its generative AI solutions into the Lumada framework and expand its use to the energy sector. Hitachi intends to embed the Microsoft cloud, Azure Open AI Service, Dynamics 365, Copilot for Microsoft 365 and GitHub Copilot into the Lumada solutions. In addition,…
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Listen to this article Software has become a major feature of rolling stock design maintenance and operation. Even in the 1990s, your writer counted over 200 microprocessors fitted to systems and sub-systems on each new eight-car Central line train. That was a comparatively simple train by today’s standards which might see as many as 200…
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Justin Worden speaks to Dalton Dodge from Brooks Automation at IPC Apex EXPO 2024 in Anaheim, USA. [embedded content] WNIE TV is kindly sponsored by Hanwha, Koh Young Technology, Essemtec, Kyzen, Nordson Test and Inspection, PVA, ROCKA Solutions, Adaptsys, Viscom, BTU and Scienscope.
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Felicitas Riedl during the EUSEW panel, Net-zero manufacturing to boost EU’s competitiveness and climate transition. It is no secret that the European Union risks losing its front-runner position in the journey to net zero. Arguably, it already has. To regain its place, it is critical to find out what the EU can do better. This…
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Listen to this article The direction that the UK rail industry takes in the next few months is taxing the minds of many and generating much speculation. To try to understand the issues and to perceive the likely way forward, an online conference was recently organised by the Westminster Energy, Environment and Transport Forum. The…
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Image: DNV An ecosystem of connected digital twins can enable the UK’s energy transition but requires industry collaboration and trust, DNV reports in a new study. The study, based on interviews with organisations across the energy sector, highlights that it is only possible for the UK to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 through digitalising…
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Olam food ingredients has earned America’s first Rainforest Alliance certification for its California orchards. As one of the world’s largest almond growers with orchards in California and Australia, Olam food ingredients’ (ofi’s) says its certification is good news for makers and consumers of almond-based food and drink products, from cereal bars and trail mixes to…
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The Kennet Crayfish Company has created the largest processing facility for crayfish in Britain. The site is eco-friendly, humane and uses pure, chalk-stream water to handle wild crayfish from the River Kennet. Crayfish are smaller, freshwater cousins of lobsters and thought by many to have a superior flavour, much prized by top chefs and foodies…
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