Ford invests £380m in Halewood to make EV drivetrains
1 December 2022 Ford has announced that is investing a further £125m to produce drivetrains for electric vehicles at its Halewood plant on Merseyside. The new investment takes… Read More
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Cheshire plant builds conveyor drives for the global market
5 February 2021 Siemens’ UK drives factory in Congleton, Cheshire, has started to produce a new distributed drive system targeting the global conveyor market. The G115D inverter, announced late… Read More
Nidec is ‘planning a $1.9bn EV motor plant for Serbia’
5 November 2020 A report from the Nikkei news service suggests that the Japanese motor manufacturer Nidec is planning to build a $1.9bn factory in Serbia to produce… Read More
Dummy apples help to cut handling damage and costs
8 June 2020 A UK company, Martin Lishman, has developed a range of fruit- and vegetable-shaped sensing devices designed to monitor and log the conditions experienced by fresh… Read More
Production transport system carries five times more load
9 August 2019 Rockwell Automation has upgraded its MagneMover Lite production transport system, allowing it to move heavier products and support larger-scale applications. The system, which uses independent… Read More
Safety network controller is ‘first’ to support two protocols
28 August 2018 Omron has announced a safety network controller that, it claims, is the first to support two safety protocols: CIP Safety (which adds safety functions to… Read More
Minebea and Mitsumi plan to merge their businesses
23 December 2015 The Japanese bearings-maker Minebea is merging its business with that of the electronics parts manufacturer Mitsumi Electric, whose wide-ranging portfolio includes DC motors, stepper motors… Read More
Non-sparking coupling is Atex-certified
9 June 2015 The German manufacturer KTR has developed a coupling for use in potentially explosive atmospheres. Its Rotex Non-Sparking coupling uses a newly-developed conductive plastic which is… Read More
Electrostatic motor ‘out-performs standard designs’
15 September 2014 An American start-up company is developing a novel motor technology that harnesses electrostatic forces instead of electromagnetism. Wisconsin-based C-Motive Technologies predicts that its technology could… Read More
