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Franz Binder, the founder of specialist connector manufacturer binder, has died at the age of 90. He was born the youngest of four children on 22 April 1929 in Neckarsulm and completed his apprenticeship as a lathe operator at Kolbenschmidt in Neckarsulm in 1947. After more than ten years at Kolbenschmidt and his successful master’s certificate examination, he became self-employed on 1 January 1960.

HIROSE Electric and the HARTING Technology Group have entered into an agreement to jointly develop, standardise products and market a connection technology system for Single Pair Ethernet (SPE).

Expect seven times the air traffic in 2050 increasing greenhouse gas X4 unless something radical happens. Elon Musk has made interesting statements about electric aircraft over the years. His Tesla will survive and prosper: if Tesla investors stop investing the Chinese will snap it up. By Dr Peter Harroop, industry expert and chairman at IDTechEx.

Global provider of solutions for enclosures, power distribution, climate control and IT infrastructure, Rittal, is creating a smart factory which will become an advanced production plant for compact and small enclosures. The new factory halls cover 24,000 square metres of floor space and will soon house more than 100 high-tech machines.

In the food industry, production plants must be designed with hygienic aspects in mind. Depending on the hygiene zone, the requirements of the splash, packaging and non-food zones vary widely. At the IFFA, Rittal presented system solutions for enclosure, power distribution and climate control technology that are universally suitable, through to solutions for efficient engineering.

Pasternack has announced that it has received the Supplier Excellence Award from Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems for superior supplier performance.Raytheon’s Integrated Defense Systems business instituted the annual Supplier Excellence Awards programme to recognise suppliers who have provided outstanding service and partnership in exceeding customer requirements.

Standards are great and there are so many to choose from. While this statement appears to ring true, closer inspection reveals very few standards reach ubiquity. Some are successful in one or two markets, for example, the Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) standard has remained dedicated to serving a narrow sector since it was first introduced in 1983. By Karl Helmer Torvmark

From sports car manufacturers to mainstream family brands, sustainability is obviously becoming more and more important for the automotive industry. According to Porsche, economic, social and ecological aspects are now equally important. The sports car manufacturer claims it has reduced the CO2 emissions per vehicle by more than 75% since 2014.

Industry groups representing companies across Europe are pressing the EU 27 leaders to work with the UK Government to avoid a catastrophic no deal Brexit and the economic damage it would bring to British companies as well as businesses and workers throughout the EU.

Regulation of the digital world has not kept pace with its role in our lives. The House of Lords Communications Committee has today called for a new, overarching regulatory framework so that the services in the digital world are held accountable to an enforceable set of shared principles. In its report Regulating in a Digital World the committee notes that over a dozen UK regulators have a remit covering the digital world but there is no body whi...