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Back Manufacturing, But That Is Only Half The Story
Manufacturing is re-emerging as a leading economic growth engine after a rather quiet summer. However this sector alone is not big enough to pull the whole of the UK back into good times. So says Mark Ingham, sales manager at Sensor Technology Ltd in Banbury, one of the innovating yet commercially aware companies identified by politicians as vital for ‘rebalancing the economy’.
Altium showcases at embedded world
Altium will be joined by customers from a range of industries to provide demonstrations and insights into the winter 09 release of Altium Designer at this year’s embedded world show. Altium’s live demonstrations will focus on how Altium Designer can help designers exploit today’s low-cost, high-performance FPGA devices. Altium’s latest release has a number of new design technologies and concepts to help electronics designers innovate, cap...
New London area venue for Fastening & Assembly Solutions Exhibition
NewbyCom – organisers of Fastening & Assembly Solutions Exhibitions are delighted to announce a new venue for their March 11th event – now for the first time in the London area at RAF Museum Hendon – just a few miles off the M25 and easily accessible by rail. This new venue offers easy access from the Home Counties and south east, enabling engineers from across the south to meet and talk with the UK’s top fastening, adhesives and assembl...
Powerstax Power-Up Concorde Simulator
Powerstax plc, the Farnborough based power solutions specialists, has supplied an AC power source to the famous Brooklands museum as part of an ongoing project to restore the original flight simulator used to train pilots for Concorde.
Colortrac Production Plant Awarded ISO14001 Certificate
Colortrac UK, the leading wide format colour scanner innovator, reports that its Colortrac Imaging Systems (SuZhou) subsidiary, the manufacturer of Colortrac SmartLF large format scanner main assemblies, has been awarded an ISO14001 Certificate. This is a voluntary Environmental Management System which requires constant commitment to environment planning and improvement.
A new framework for evaluating sustainable technologies
Standard components from the Rexroth mechanical elements and linear motion ranges have provided a convenient, versatile and cost effective solution to the challenge of mounting and controlling a half-tonne lamp array at the heart of a new state-of-the-art solar simulator facility. This simulator developed by the Centre of Sustainable Technologies (CST) at the University of Ulster will be used to evaluate the performance of photovoltaic (PV) panel...
IGE+XAO’s SEE Electrical contributes to sustainable development in China
Vestas is a leader in wind energy equipment and holds a 23% market share at a global level. Every year each Vestas V90-3.0MW wind turbine can avoid 5000 tons of CO2. The power it generates matches 13,000 barrels of crude oil. Vestas wind turbines generate more than 50 million MWh every year which is enough electricity to supply every household in a country the size of Spain.
RTP COMPANY'S GLASS FIBER-REINFORCED PLA BIOPLASTIC COMPOUNDS IMPROVE STRENGTH AND THERMAL PERFORMANCE
-- Global custom engineered thermoplastics compounder RTP Company has commercialized the industry's first line of glass fiber-reinforced polylactic acid (PLA) compounds that overcome many limitations of unmodified PLA by delivering greater strength, stiffness, and thermal performance. These new materials, which target durable and semi-durable applications, are the latest extension of RTP Company's family of engineered bioplastic compounds that us...
Knovel's Sustainable Energy and Development subject area brings 120+ new reference texts to Engineers & Scientists worldwide
Adept Scientific (Letchworth, Herts) and Knovel (New York, USA) have announced the addition of a new subject area to www.knovel.com – the online technical resource for applied scientists and practicing engineers.
Robust Pressure Transmitter for Aeronautical Equipment
A new pressure transmitter especially for aeronautical applications has been developed by Baumer’s product segment Process Instrumentation. Completely made of stainless steel, the compact device meets the high requirements for the use in aviation operations and can be deployed for the pressure measurement of most gases and liquids.