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  • Customized torque sensors for robotics applications

    Inelta Sensorsysteme offers a wide range of services, including the development and production of torque sensors with different calibrated nominal torques. With its development expertise and vertical range of manufacture, the sensor expert has specialized in the economical, quality-tested implementation of customer-specific solutions, even for small and medium batch sizes. On behalf of various well-known…


  • New at Mouser: NXP Semiconductors MCX Microcontrollers for Intelligent Motor Control and Machine Learning Applications

     Mouser Electronics, Inc., the industry’s leading New Product Introduction (NPI) distributor with the widest selection of semiconductors and electronic components™, is now shipping the MCX industrial and IoT microcontrollers (MCUs) from NXP Semiconductors. These new MCUs are high-performance, low-power microcontrollers with intelligent peripherals and accelerators for secure, intelligent motor control and machine-learning applications. NXP’s new…


  • Planning key focus for Britain’s future National Energy System Operator

    Image: National Grid ESO Britain’s forthcoming National Energy System Operator (NESO) will be charged with producing two key energy plans. The new organisation, which will replace the current National Grid ESO, is intended to continue the delivery of the existing electricity market roles, including control centre operations, market development and transactions and system insight, planning…


  • Smart meters in manufacturing sector can bring savings – study

    Photo by Simone Hutsch via Unsplash A new study from North Carolina State University researchers suggests that smart meters can improve energy efficiency in manufacturing. The key driver is the willingness of managers to actually make use of the technology, according to the researchers, who also present the study as a proof-of-concept for using ‘event…


  • EDF unveils ‘eco-responsible’ decentralised quantum data centre in Canada

    Image: Exaion EDF Group subsidiary Exaion has inaugurated the Bellevue data centre for quantum hybridisation in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. The new data centre, claimed the world’s first eco-responsible and decentralised infrastructure specifically designed for quantum hybridisation, will provide heating and domestic hot water to the Humano District project in which it is located. The Bellevue…


  • Walkers introduces paper multibag packaging for Snack A Jacks

    Walkers has announced the rollout of new, paper outer bags for all Snack A Jacks multipacks. The new, paper outer bag is set to reduce the use of virgin plastic by 65 tonnes per year. It can be recycled with other paper packaging in home recycling bins and reduces greenhouse gas emissions of the individual…


  • PCIM Europe 2024: Shaping the future of power electronics

    As an expert in power electronics, you are play a decisive role in areas relevant to the future, such as sustainability. And, as you know, these solutions for tomorrow, have to be developed today. At the same time, power electronics must be designed to be ever more efficient and powerful and integrated into existing systems. …


  • TotalEnergies announces flexible battery project in Belgium

    Image courtesy 123rf French energy and petroleum company TotalEnergies has announced the development of a battery project in Belgium, which will help manage grid congestion problems. The project, announced on the occasion of Belgian Energy Minister Tinne Van der Straeten’s visit to TotalEnergies’ Antwerp refinery battery storage project, will be developed on the site of…


  • Sleaford Quality Foods reveals new £750,000 innovation centre

    SQF MD James Arnold & MP Dr Caroline Johnson. Posted: 3 April 2024 Share this page Sleaford Quality Foods, the Lincolnshire-based high-quality ingredients and blends supplier to the food industry, has taken a significant step towards realising its growth plans with the official opening of its new, state of the art Innovation Centre by local…


  • Beneo recovers energy from waste water to drive sustainable production

    Beneo, a leading manufacturer of functional ingredients for food, feed and pharma, is continuing its commitment towards more sustainable production processes by installing new equipment at its rice ingredients plant in Wijgmaal, Belgium. Thanks to a large-scale industrial heat pump supplied by Heaten, a specialist in industrial heat pump solutions, the company will be able…