£21m investment slashes Eriks’ delivery times to a day or two
25 October 2022 The industrial products supplier Eriks has invested £21m in its UK business, principally on a fulfilment centre in Oldbury that expands its product range as… Read More
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25 October 2022 
‘Breakthrough’ motor will use low-loss magnetic material
18 October 2022 An Australian start-up company is developing a new generation of smaller, lighter and more efficient electric motors based on a new magnetic material called Aeroperm… Read More
Rockwell buys Danish modular switchboard specialist, Cubic
3 October 2022 Rockwell Automation is buying Cubic, a Danish company that produces modular systems for constructing electrical panels. Rockwell says that combining Cubic’s flexible systems with its… Read More
ABB takes stake in Dutch machine monitoring specialist
26 September 2022 ABB is taking a 10% stake in Samotics, a Dutch specialist in analysing the health of rotating machines, and has entered a long-term strategic partnership… Read More
UK manufacturers battle with the City to attract digital skills
26 September 2022 UK manufacturers are having to compete with the financial sector and other high-paying parts of the economy to recruit the data specialists that they need… Read More
ABB rebrands AMR line-up following its purchase of Asti
23 September 2022 Following its acquisition last year of the Spanish autonomous mobile robot (AMR) manufacturer Asti Mobile Robotics, ABB Robotics is rebranding its AMR portfolio under the… Read More
Royal Mint plant will be ‘first’ to turn waste PCBs into gold
9 September 2022 The Royal Mint is building the world’s first plant designed to recover precious metals, including gold, from discarded electronic devices such as mobile phones. When… Read More
Timken buys GGB Bearings from EnPro for $305m
7 September 2022 The Timken Company is buying the metal-polymer plain bearings producer GGB Bearing Technology from EnPro Industries for $305m in cash. Timken says that GGB’s expertise… Read More
UK manufacturers see energy prices as threat to existence
5 September 2022 Nearly six out of ten UK manufacturers (58%) now fear that soaring energy prices are threatening their businesses – up from 8% just four months… Read More
Vision sensor has a 1km range – ‘the world’s longest’
31 August 2022 A Californian company has announced a machine vision sensor that, it claims, can operate over a range of more than 1km – further than any… Read More
