Industrial

With £1m of capital funding provided through the UK Rail Research and Innovation Network (UKRRIN), the soon-to-be-launched HAROLD 2.0 full-scale bogie test rig builds upon the existing HAROLD facility opened at the University of Huddersfield’s Institute of Railway Research in 2016.

Northvolt and Volvo Cars will place their first joint battery factory in Gothenburg, Sweden, next to Volvo Cars’ assembly plant in Torslanda. The facility will be operational in 2025 and create up to 3,000 direct jobs in Gothenburg. Indirectly, it will also create thousands of additional jobs in the region. 

Mouser will be co-hosting a 3-day online event to help UK-based startups test, validate and communicate their technical requirements to manufacturers.

Valmet have signed a contract to deliver a waste-to-energy (WtE) boiler fired with refuse-derived fuel (RDF) to Thang Long Energy Environment’s greenfield waste-to-energy plant in Bac Ninh province, Vietnam.

Exel Composites has appointed Neil Dykes to the role of UK R&D manager at the organisation’s factory in Runcorn, England. With a wealth of experience in polymer science and advanced composites manufacturing, he will help to grow company visibility across the UK by expanding Exel’s product offerings. Furthermore, Dykes will help to grow local production expertise in the UK, integrating customer challenges into composite solutions.

Voice control is booming: Alexa, Siri and others are showing what is possible. Industrial applications can also benefit from this technology, for the intuitive and hands-free control of devices and systems used to automate complex processes, for example, or in medical apparatus.

Z-AXIS utilises the HydroJet in-line cleaning system from Austin American Technology to clean under tightly spaced components at its ISO 9001:2015 certified design and manufacturing facility.

SEMI and the American Semiconductor Academy (ASA) Initiative have announced a partnership to build a comprehensive workforce development program designed to close the microelectronics industry’s widening talent gap.

YANMAR’s YDP series (Portable Diesel Water Pumps) has now been re-launched to facilitate water solutions to customers worldwide.

Eco Wave Power Global is pleased to announce that it has officially completed the grid connection route works in the Port of Jaffa, Israel, pursuant to the engineering coordination permit from the Municipality of Tel-Aviv Jaffa (permit number 2020-4345) for the deployment of the grid connection works of the EWP-EDF One wave energy project in Israel.