Toyota Gazoo Racing complete their 2025 FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) season this week with the eighth and final round, the 8 Hours of Bahrain on Saturday (8 November). Following seven rounds across four continents and 64 hours of racing, the stage is set for a day-night showdown in Bahrain, which is hosting the WEC […]
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Siemens and Capgemini expand their strategic partnership to co-develop AI-native digital solutions for product engineering, manufacturing and operations. Such solutions fundamentally embed artificial intelligence at their core from inception, rather than merely adding it as a feature. The partners are focused on 16 high-impact capability areas that can deliver measurable outcomes in production efficiency, time-to-market, […]
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Lesters Packaging is pressing the button on a significant recruitment drive as it looks to bridge the skills gap in the packaging sector. The specialist in corrugated boxes and bespoke packaging solutions is creating ten machine operator positions at its state-of-the-art facility in Burntwood in direct response to a lack of new people coming into […]
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In modern automation systems, the demand for compact, interference-resistant connection solutions continues to grow. binder is expanding its existing M8 portfolio with molded, 360° shielded signal connectors. The new M8 male and female cable connector are the ideal solution for transmitting signals reliably and interference-free from sensors to control units – even in EMC-critical environments. […]
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Glass in semiconductors is not a moon-shot concept; it already sits quietly inside modern fab. Ultra-flat borosilicate carriers hold silicon wafers during backside thinning, sodium-free sheets form hermetic MEMS caps, and low-coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) glass is the baseplate for many wafer-level fan-out processes. Dr Xiaoxi He, Research Analyst, IDTechEx, Based on research from […]
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This week marks a proud milestone at CERAFILTEC: the final shipment of our advanced ceramic membrane modules is leaving Saarbrücken, Germany, on its way to Memphis, Tennessee, where xAI is building the world’s largest ceramic membrane bioreactor (MBR). Once complete, this record-breaking installation will reuse 49.2 million liters (13.0 million gallons) of municipal wastewater every […]
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A growing emphasis on additive manufacturing, sustainable materials and cross-sector innovation are set to be the main discussion points when Goodfellow exhibits at the Advanced Engineering Show in Birmingham this week (October 29th-30th). That is the prediction of Dr Aphrodite Tomou, who heads up the technical department at the Huntingdon-based supplier of more than 170,000 […]
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The new PSD-SL LED signal light series by Phoenix Contact is a compact solution for application-oriented signaling directly on machine functions. The lights are versatile, robustly built and suitable for both indoor and outdoor use. The new PSD-SL LED signal lights from Phoenix Contact enable clear, functional signaling directly on the application. They are available in […]
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With 2026 looming, now’s the time for UK manufacturers to take stock of their internal operations and external trends to identify how and where they can gain a competitive advantage and drive growth in the new year. 2025 saw the growth of a number of emerging technologies, including the further growth of integrated technologies like […]
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The first COTS-based robotic installation in the UK nuclear industry has been successfully completed, proving FANUC’s technology in this challenging field. FANUC’s ARC Mate 120iC and M-900iB/360 robots have played a starring role in a pioneering waste size reduction project as part of Sellafield’s ongoing decommissioning process. In a first-of-its-kind autonomous application designed and delivered […]
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