With their recycling platforms, igus and cirplus want to jointly promote the regenerative plastics industry in the future. At the same time, Cirplus is launching the first global standard for high-quality plastics recycling.

On 4 October, ACS Motion Control and Physik Instrumente (PI) UK will be attending MachineBuilding.Live in Birmingham to showcase how precision positioning hardware and advanced motion control solutions can come together to create something truly greater than the sum of its parts.

When an automated assembly cell, where space is at a premium, required a solution for avoiding collisions between the robot gripper and its surroundings – populated with other assembly and material handling equipment – the designers of the robotic system turned to Contrinex.

At MachineBuilding.Live, Stuart Coulton, UK and Ireland marketing manager for OMRON, will discuss different approaches to minimising downtime when he leads a workshop titled: “Increasing productivity by minimising changeover times”.

Farnell will be hosting its first live Q&A webinar on Industry 4.0 on 6th September 2023 (2pm BST) with presenters from partner organisations Festo, Eaton and Auer Signal.

See Beckhoff at MachineBuilding.Live, 4 October 2023, on stand 43

Sewtec Automation, a market leader in bespoke automation for a wide range of industries, has developed an advanced inspection machine for PET bottles that relies on the high performance of Keyence camera sensors to deliver accurate and repeatable results in short cycle times.

Rockwell Automation has announced plans to collaborate with Fork Farms, a Green Bay-based agriculture technology startup company, to build a highly automated, indoor 7,300-square-foot hydroponic vertical farm within Rockwell’s Milwaukee headquarters by summer of 2024.

The Rubix Motion, Control and Automation (MCA) division will be coming together for the first time to exhibit at MachineBuilding.Live on 4 October 2023 at the National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham.

RS is celebrating the award-winning success of three of the teams it supported at the recent UK Formula Student 25-year milestone event. Sixty-one teams subjected their single-seat race car prototypes to rigorous testing at Silverstone race track in Northamptonshire, in the annual challenge organised by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE).