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Large but light A first for the automotive industry, Bugatti’s brake caliper is tipped to be “the world’s largest 3D printed titanium pressure functional component ever produced.” It is made on an SLM 500 3D printer and takes, on average, 45 hours to complete. This 45 hours equates to 2,213 layers, and 2.9 kg of titanium. According to Frank Götzke, Head of New Tec...

The material cut by the laser cutting machine is smooth and flat, and no other post-processing is needed after cutting, which saves further labor costs and processing costs, reduces various processing links, fast, and high cost performance, greatly improving production efficiency. Compared with the traditional cutting method, laser cutting is not only low in price, lo...

Austrian equipment manufacturer, EREMA Group, has acquired 60% of recycling equipment firm PLASMAC Srl to further expand its range of tailor-made plastic recycling solutions for in-house applications. The remaining 40% of the recycling machine manufacturer is owned by SYNCRO Group, an Italian manufacturer that makes equipment for the blown film industry. PLASMAC ha...

Northern Irish waste and recycling firm, Geminor, has made its first bulk shipment of RDF to the Landskrona Energi waste to energy facility in the south-western corner of Sweden. Geminor explained that the boiler at Landskrona Energi district heating facility is sensitive and needs a high quality 100 mm refined. The export comes as a result of Geminors partnership wit...

According to life-cycle engineer and team lead Dr Vi Kie Soo, using lightweight and eco-friendly vehicle material actually shifts the environmental burden to the recycling stage of the vehicle. “Previous work has looked at how the multi-material combination can reduce the vehicle’s carbon footprint during its use,” said Soo. “So I investigated how the changing vehi...

Perforated sleeves for PET Household and Personal Care (HPC) PET bottles which can be removed by the consumers have been touted as a potential solution to the problems in sorting via Near Infrared (NIR) and optical detectors in waste plastic packaging sorting and recovery plants by Petcore Europe's ODR Working Group. The trade association, which represents the comple...

Bottle Grade rPET producer, CarbonLITE, has selected Bulk Handling Systems (BHS) to supply the front-end recycling system for its newest post-consumer recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) plant in Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania. The Eugene, Oregon based recycling equipment manufacturer also provided the front-end recycling system for CarbonLITE’s Dallas, Texas facil...

Hong Kong’s Environmental Protection Department (EPD) has rolled out the Glass Container Recycling Charter and a series of promotional and publicity activities to further raise public awareness on glass bottle recycling. Officiating at a launch ceremony, the Secretary for the Environment, Mr Wong Kam-sing, said that the Government is implementing the Producer Responsi...

Austrian recycling equipment manufacturer, ANDRITZ, has secured a deal to supply a complete tyre recycling plant to Pyrum Innovations AG for its thermolysis facility in Dillingen, Germany. Pyrum Innovations AG is a recycling technology company with locations in Germany, France and Luxembourg. The company’s main activity is the engineering and construction of recycling...

Our Teams undertook the planning and delivery of 494 components including blades, towers, nacelles, drive trains and hubs required for the development of Kype Muir Wind Farm. The 80m hub height towers of the Senvion 3.4MW turbines feature 52m blades, and whilst these are not the largest we’ve been appointed to handle, they necessitated the use of our Super Wing Carriers...

Our modern cutting machines are faster, more precise and easier to handle. They enable us to process almost every kind of cable types. The common flexible types like H05VV-F, H07RN-F, H05SS-F, H07BQ-F etc. up to a cross- section of 120mm². Even special cable like ribbon-, coaxial- or shielded cable can be handled. This gives us the opportunity to be more flexible in our ...

We’ve seen a distinct pattern emerge in the last twelve months of firms focusing on increasing efficiency to better support long-term growth. Different sized firms as well as those that focus on a particular type of design have some specific HPC but even their technical choices are manifesting themselves in some fairly specific trends. Rethinking the cloud Project...

The intelligent technology beams a series of projections onto the road to show the future intentions of the vehicle - for example stopping and turning left or right - as part of research into how people can develop their trust in autonomous technology. In the future the projections could even be used to share obstacle detection and journey updates with pedestrians. Th...

This will allow developers to move closer to market by demonstrating their technologies at full commercial scale. Ocean Demo will release a first call for applications this year and devices will be installed from 2020 to 2022. The transition from single machine to pilot farm scale is critical for the future of the ocean energy sector. Scaling up to multi-device far...

WeeSafe Launches the first guidebook dedicated to chemical protective coveralls. The present guide lays out the professional activities where short usage protective coveralls are strongly recommended. It details the different areas of activity where chemical risk is omnipresent and the occupations involved, as well as the chemical substances encountered. This sales and t...

The automotive sector is constantly evolving and offering a number of actuator solutions with the purpose of providing vehicle drivers with a greater comfort and safety. Nowadays we can find two types of side-view mirrors on the market. On one hand we have manual mirrors, which lack an electric actuator to fold or unfold them; and on the other we have power mirrors, w...

One of the most straightforward ways to upgrade a corrugator to ensure consistent product quality is by installing a non-contact temperature measurement system. The paper web is easy to measure with a near-instant response time, and excellent accuracy and repeatability, by using infrared temperature sensors. Low-cost sensors are available with a choice of output t...

Providing customers using film set pavilions with convenient system of equipment suspension is one of the main tasks during film and television shooting. GLAVKINO complex chose solution from Sofit Light, purchasing 224 STAGEMAKER SR5 hoists. GLAVKINO film and television complex was founded in 2008. Today it has nine equipped film studios with a total area of 21,000 m...

In September 2017, TRIAX has obtained the « EPV » label – Label Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant (Living Heritage Company). This label is decerned by the State for excellence in craftsmanship and expertise. Its selection is based on an advanced “savoir-faire”, well-known or traditional, and highlights the added value of French excellence in the manufacturing proces...

An organization had been using a torch for this metal-to-plastic insertion application involving heating a brass shaft, however, it required multiple torches to meet their growing throughput requirements. Consequently, they wanted to see if induction heating could offer them a more efficient solution. They turned to THE LAB at Ambrell and took advantage of complimentary ...

ELAP absolute encoders MEM-Bus with EtherCAT® interface are designed for industrial applications where real-time speed, accuracy and repeatibility are required. The encoder interface supports CANopen over EtherCAT according to CiA 301 and the encoder profile CiA 406, which allows MEM-Bus to be integrated into virtually any system using the EhterCAT interface. The enco...

Oil-air-coolers offer more than just compact heat exchange design and high efficiency – the cooling units and fans fitted are also optimized to ensure that the coolers run with a minimum of noise. The current range consists of 11 sizes with cooling capacities between 4.4 kW and 140 kW at 40°C inlet temperature differential, with one-pass or two-pass versions of unit s...

also motive three phase motors of the DELPHI series, like motive gearboxes before (BOX worm, ENDURO helical bevel, STON mounted shaft helical, ROBUS in-line helical, STADIO pre-stage) have just been certified ATEX for category 2 and 3. DELPHI EX are then suitable now for 4 zones, 2 categories, Gas and Dust Cat Zone description motive gearboxes 2 1...

The many applications of graphene, an atomically-thin sheet of carbon atoms with extraordinary conductivity and mechanical properties, include the manufacture of sensors. These transform environmental parameters into electrical signals that can be processed and measured with a computer. Due to their two-dimensional structure, graphene-based sensors are extremely sensi...

Devices that convert AC electromagnetic waves into DC electricity are known as "rectennas." The researchers demonstrate a new kind of rectenna, described in a study appearing in Nature, that uses a flexible radio-frequency (RF) antenna that captures electromagnetic waves -- including those carrying Wi-Fi -- as AC waveforms. The antenna is then connected to a novel dev...

The research team led by Xiulei (David) Ji of OSU's College of Science, along with collaborators at the Argonne National Laboratory, the University of California Riverside, and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, are the first to demonstrate that diffusion may not be necessary to transport ionic charges inside a hydrated solid-state structure of a battery electrode. "T...

The global industrial robotics market share is booming, now accounting for more than 50 percent of the total robot market according to the International Federation of Robotics. It forecasts that in 2020 the global annual sales volume of industrial robots will increase to $23.18 billion, up from to $16.82 billion in 2017. 1. The Rise of Cobots Human-machine collabor...

Unveiled at the Brussels Motor Show in Belgium, the vehicle’s cargo area has been kitted out as a mobile workshop for a creative woodworking professional. It contains numerous practical and innovative features, and illustrates how Nissan’s extensive LCV range can be the perfect partner for professionals working in any sector or trade. The van’s content has been develope...

Debuting at CES 2019, “Elevate”, the Ultimate Mobility Vehicle (UMV), prepares communities in the event of a natural disaster Wheels with robotic legs allow users to drive, walk or even climb over the most treacherous terrain. The need for efficient, rapid, resilient transportation for disaster assistance is what led Hyundai to develop the first-ever vehicle with movea...

Here is more proof: the exceptional growth of data-driven sensors and the increase in the use of mobile devices in plant operations. Industry believes in the Internet of Things, it invested $183 billion last year. Countries are not to be outdone, France has listed connected objects as one of the 34 priorities of its industrial policy. By Frédéric Aguilar, Technical Di...

Road transport is estimated to account for around 17% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Figures from the European Commission suggest that passenger car and heavy-duty vehicle emissions are responsible for 21% of all GHG emissions in the continent. As a result, carmakers are continuously pushed by governments to make their vehicles more eco-friendly. But it’s...

Specialists in interior components, IAC operates in all automotive manufacturing markets around the globe. But it was its production lines at Halewood in Merseyside, delivering interior components to the adjacent JLR factory, which is piloting IAC’s newest industry 4.0 approaches. Assembling instrument panel modules for the Range Rover Evoque and Land Rover Discovery Spo...

The building located at 180 Technology Parkway in Peachtree Corners, is approximately 10 miles north of ASHRAE’s current location. The 1970s-era building was selected from existing building stock with a goal ofretrofitting it into a modern, high-performance building. “ASHRAE is excited to demonstrate innovative leadership in our industry by transforming an existing c...

The research team led by Xiulei (David) Ji of OSU's College of Science, along with collaborators at the Argonne National Laboratory, the University of California Riverside, and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, are the first to demonstrate that diffusion may not be necessary to transport ionic charges inside a hydrated solid-state structure of a battery electrode. "T...

Seats, dashboard, shafts and many other parts are assembled using a manipulator of Scaglia INDEVA with electronic controls for the end effector.

In a completely unexpected move, Rethink ceased business in early October due to insolvency. According to media reports, the company was short of cash because the robot sales did not meet the expectations. Some observers also blame Rethink's lack of application and industry proximity for the failure. Rethink was founded in 2008 by MIT Professor Rodney Brooks, who also co...