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Bureau Veritas and Schutter Group have introduced a rapid aflatoxin pre-shipment inspection and quality control process designed to protect producers, shippers, global buyers and feed processors by mitigating the risk of toxin exposure through on-site quick detection tests.

A comprehensive range of accumulation chains, especially for logistics and material handling applications are on offer from chain specialist iwis drive systems that have proven exceptionally efficient and durable – and therefore economical – in numerous comparisons. Accumulation chains are used for conveying, accumulating and separating a wide range of different goods.

Rostecwill present the latest Russian developments in the space industry as well as in aircraft and helicopter engineering and weapons. The following enterprises, included in the contour of Rostec, will take part in airspace salon: Russian Helicopters, United Engine Corporation, Rosoboronexport, Technodinmika, VSMPO-AVISMA, Ruselectronics, Shvabe, Splav, RT-Chemcomposite, Security Technologies, Techmash. Altogether, the exposition of Rostec's ent...

Global provider of wireless and positioning modules and chips, u-blox, has announced that it is partnering with key players of the IoT ecosystem, Huawei, Vivo, CAS Tecnologia and PinMyPet running lab and field tests inside new Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT or Cat NB1) networks in Brazil. The first tests are ongoing since Q1 2017 and initially focused on metering and tracking applications.

The advent of smart plastics could play a crucial role in helping UK manufacturers move towards the connectivity of Industry 4.0, according to igus, the motion plastics specialist. igus has embedded intelligence and networking capabilities into its cable, energy chain and linear bearing products for the first time, ushering in a new era of smart plastics whereby data on the performance and condition of these essential components can be gathered, ...

Agricultural practises will need to continue to develop and become more efficient, if the findings of recent research pieces are anything to go by. For instance, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has reported that agricultural consumption will need to increase by close to 70% by 2050 to account for the world’s growing population - projected to hit nine billion people in the same year.

At the UK AD & Biogas and World Biogas Expo 2017 in Birminghamon 5th July 2017, WELTEC BIOPOWER received the renowned AD & Biogas Industry Award in two categories from the British anaerobic digestion association ADBA. An independent expert jury nominated the German biogas plant manufacturer in the category 'Best international agricultural project' in recognition of its 800kW plant in Colombia.

An Internet of Things (IoT) research study fromInmarsat,has found that agritech businesses are helping many food producers to meet increasingly stringent import requirements by monitoring production, food hygiene, and sustainability through the use of IoT. This will accelerate the globalisation of food production by enabling developing country food producers to export to developed economies, where these regulations originate from.

Columbia University researchers have developed a tool that is likely to revolutionise the way we detect and treat pathogens in everything from human health to agriculture to water. Using only common household baker’s yeast, they’ve created an extremely low-cost, low-maintenance, on-site dipstick test they hope will aid in the surveillance and early detection of fungal pathogens responsible for major human disease, agricultural damage ...

Worked hard by their operators trucks have the tough assignments of hauling agricultural grain, which can involve loads heavy enough that they that could affect steering and which also create potentially damaging dust.Additionally the trucks will have to cope with the whole spectrum of driving conditions from rough farm tracks to high speed highways. Here Danny Broomfield, UK Sales Director for JOST UK looks at the special considerations for desi...