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Europe’s first 3D-printed office extension has opened in Hausleiten in Austria. The project is a result of a collaboration between the construction technology group STRABAG and the scaffolding and formwork manufacturer and 3D concrete printing pioneer PERI. The building is a 125-metres-squared office extension to an existing building in Hausleiten.

A consortium of Fraunhofer institutes and well-known German industrial companies is developing a split-manufacturing project for semiconductor production in the project: Distributed Manufacturing for Novel and Trustworthy Electronics T4T. This will enable the secure assembly of subsystems in Germany and safeguard supply chains.

With IML systems, the positioning of labels can change during operation. This can occur due to a magazine change, label change or within a label stack due to cutting tolerances.

For many years, metals have been used as TIMs in the industry. Due to their reliability and high thermal conductivity, the metal TIMs have been great solutions, especially for the most challenging applications.

Inovaxe, a global provider of innovative material handling and inventory control systems, is pleased to announce that Surf-Tech Manufacturing Corporation has utilised six Inovaxe SR Series Mobile Smart Racks at its facility in Ronkonkoma, New York.

SABIC, a global specialist in the chemical industry, is launching at the ECOC Exhibition 2022 its EXTEM RH1016UCL resin. A high-heat, near-infrared (IR)-transparent grade, well-suited for injection-moulded lenses used in co-packaged optical transceivers and other optical connectors.

In times of limited availability of components and materials, reworking takes on a very special significance. This also applies to LED manufacturing, where irregularities in processed LEDs are immediately visible at first sight. This piece from Tresky discusses how its automated debonding solution can enhance LED manufacturing.

Carlsberg Group has chosen ABBYY's intelligent document procession technologies to automate its order and delivery processes, thereby accelerating time to market and customer satisfaction.

Farnell has released the first episode in Series 2 of the global podcast: The Innovation Experts. The episode , called 'Series 2 – Industry 4.0 and the Future of Manufacturing', focuses on leading manufacturers work in the IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things).

Power management company Eaton has attained US and Canadian certification, along with ATEX and IECEx approvals for mounting in a hazardous area, for its MTL SUM5 Smart Universal Marshalling system for process applications.