Machine Building

Watson-Marlow receives Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation

On 18 September His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, KG presented The Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation 2018 to Watson-Marlow Limited. The award to Watson-Marlow was originally announced on The Queen's 92nd birthday in April this year. It recognises the company's development of its Qdos pump technology the world's first self-contained, chemical metering pump. His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, KG in his capacity as Her Majesty the Queen's representative, visited Watson-Marlow to present the commemorative award. He was introduced to company representatives and given a short tour of the extensive manufacturing facilities in Falmouth.

19th September 2018

Rockwell collaborates on Schools Engineering Skills Initiative

On 18 September 2018 Rockwell Automation hosted the launch of a collaboration with Primary Engineer, a not-for-profit organisation which delivers engineering skills programmes into schools throughout the UK.

19th September 2018

E-book explores boom in demand for copper

Copper is becoming the new gold, with an ever-growing range of applications making the red metal increasingly valuable. It's for this reason that materials search engine Matmatch has released an e-book, entitled Industry in Focus: Copper, explaining how and why material suppliers can take advantage of the copper boom. The e-book is available as a free download from Matmatch's website.

18th September 2018

Rockwell's Manufacturing Safety Excellence Awards: nominations

For the sixth year, Rockwell Automation is accepting nominations for its Manufacturing Safety Excellence Awards. The awards celebrate best-in-class manufacturers that make safety an inherent value in their company culture, compliance procedures and use of machine-safety technology.

18th September 2018

DIN-rail PoE injectors and DIN-rail power supplies at EDS 2018

PULS Power says it is the only company world-wide, focused exclusively on the development and production of DIN-Rail power supplies and accessories. PULS concentrate all of its engineering knowledge, design resources and energy on one goal: To offer the best technology in this market. Significant new products will be on display for the first time at EDS 2018 (17-18 October) on stand A20. Responding to the growing market in Power over Ethernet systems in industrial, commercial and rail applications PULS has introduced two new products.

14th September 2018

Schunk Co-Act gripper shortlisted for PPMA Show Awards

The Schunk Co-act gripper JL1 has been shortlisted for the PPMA Show Awards that will take place on the 25th September 2018 at the Hilton, NEC, Birmingham during the PPMA exhibition. The next generation of grippers has been specially designed for collaboration between humans and robots and has won plaudits and awards worldwide since its introduction.

14th September 2018

Nicomatic-sponsored team wins SpaceX Hyperloop challenge

Nicomatic is delighted to announce that the WARR Hyperloop Team from the Technische Universität of Munich (TUM) has won the 2018 SpaceX Hyperloop Pod competition by going almost 50 per cent faster than in 2017, achieving a final speed of 467 km/h. Nicomatic is the team's only connector sponsor and Nicomatic's micro-connectors contributed to this success by delivering reliable performance under challenging race conditions, while minimising space and weight.

14th September 2018

Pickering to debut test and simulation products at electronica

Pickering Interfaces will exhibit at the world's the world's leading trade fair and conference for electronics, electronica, Munich, Germany (Nov 13-16) with a range of products designed to increase test efficiency and productivity. In Hall A - Booth 431, the company will show a range of test and simulation products.

14th September 2018

Universal Robots expands Gold Cobot opportunity

Universal Robots earlier this year announced that it is celebrating its 25,000th cobot sale by giving away a Gold Edition cobot, shipped free of cost, to one lucky customer. However, due to a huge response and interest from customers all around the world, Universal Robots has decided to offer a Gold Edition cobot to a customer in each of Universal Robots' geographical areas worldwide.

13th September 2018

New Lee Spring catalogue includes 2000+ new items

Lee Spring's new enhanced catalogue contains over 25,000 standard parts, including 2000+ new items of which 500+ are compression springs in metric DIN-Plus dimensions, extension springs in 316 grade stainless steel, torsion springs in 316 grade stainless steel and added High Pressure compression springs, including new 600psi designs.

13th September 2018