20 April 2026 Automate UK, the organisation that represents more than 500 companies in the UK industrial automation sector, is combining its PPMA and UK Automation shows… Read More
11 August 2025 A pilot carton-capping machine installed at a plant in Italy can fit 25,000 caps every hour – almost three times as many as conventional capping… Read More
8 October 2024 Plymouth-based Applied Automation (UK) has acquired the brand, intellectual property and assets of Somerset-based CME Automation Systems, following its liquidation. Details of the transaction… Read More
15 February 2021 Fanuc has announced its most powerful Scara robot to date – a small, lightweight system that can carry loads of up to 20kg, which is… Read More
17 June 2020 ABB has announced a flexible, high-payload delta robot to target applications such as customised packaging, vertical packing, and high-speed, high-variation sorting and on-demand order-picking in… Read More
10 May 2019 A UK coding and print inspection specialist AutoCoding Systems has collaborated with the sensor-maker Sick to develop what they claim is the first fully-automatic smart… Read More
6 February 2019 Rockwell Automation has announced an industrial controller that combines its Logix control engine with the Microsoft Windows 10 IoT Enterprise operating system, allowing users to… Read More
31 May 2018 SIG, the Swiss packaging giant, has formed a strategic partnership with GE Digital to deliver digital innovation in food and beverage packaging. Starting in July,… Read More
6 May 2014 The PPMA Group, which represents the UK’s processing and packaging industry, has appointed Andrew Stark as its new chief operating officer. Stark has a sales… Read More
4 June 2013 The European packaging machinery market was worth more than $12.62bn in 2012 and will reach $14.63bn by 2016, according a new report from the market… Read More
