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Prototype ‘Smart Bin’ Designed to Help Cut Food Waste

A precision-engineered replica model of a ‘smart bin’ aimed at cutting food waste has helped an aspiring designer and entrepreneur showcase his product to potential customers.

From Ogle Models and Prototypes 5 Jul 2019

Kent Electrical Engineering Company Designs Rear Light Cable Harness for New German Sports Car

Edenbridge based, Convert Ltd, the UK’s leading manufacturer of cable looms and harnesses, has designed a rear light cable harness for a German automotive manufacturer’s new all-electric sports car.

From Convert Ltd. 5 Jul 2019

MANN+HUMMEL Launches Updated Life Sciences & Environment Air Filtration Website

The updated air filtration website from MANN+HUMMEL went live today. The website is the central information platform for all filtration solutions from MANN+HUMMEL for clean air in commercially used buildings, in industry, outdoors or indoors, traditional or digital.

From MANN+HUMMEL International GmbH & Co. KG 5 Jul 2019

REDEX Tension Multi Roll Leveler is used on Tinning Line for the First Time in China

Electrolytic tinplate (ETP) is one of high-end products by cold rolling and deep processing, a new type of high-value-added corrosion resistant material.

From REDEX 5 Jul 2019

SEMI Americas and Semiconductor Digest Announce 2019 “Best of West” Award Finalists: CyberOptics, Advantest and Edwards

SEMI and Semiconductor Digest today announced finalists for the Best of West award to be presented at SEMICON West 2019, July 9-11 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

5 Jul 2019

EU Project Aimed at Converting Waste into Sustainable Chemical Compounds

The techniques for manufacturing sustainable chemicals from lignin are further expanded by the Electrosynthesis group at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU). The research lab, headed by Professor Siegfried Waldvogel at the JGU Institute of Organic Chemistry, is managing a partnership consortium of institutes of higher education and businesses.

4 Jul 2019

New Study Shows Potential of Metabolite Information Storage System

A group of scientists from Brown University, headed by Jacob Rosenstein, encoded and decoded images of an Egyptian cat, an ibex, and an anchor from mixtures of small molecules known as metabolites.

4 Jul 2019

New Method for Increasing the Efficiency of Solar Cells

Generally, the overall efficiency of any traditional silicon-based solar cell has an absolute limit. This is partly based on the fact that a single electron can be displaced or knocked loose by each photon of light, even if that photon carried double the energy required to do so.

4 Jul 2019

Researchers Succeed in Doubling the Activity of Fuel Cell Catalysts

An interdisciplinary research group from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has developed platinum nanoparticles for fuel cell catalysis. The innovative catalysts are size-optimized and are twice as good as the existing commercially available best process.

4 Jul 2019

Azelis and Tagra Receive Ringier Technology Innovation Award for CelluCap Resveratrol

Azelis, a leading speciality chemicals and food ingredients distributor, is very proud to announce it has won the 2019 Ringier Technology Innovation Award for Personal Care.

From Azelis 4 Jul 2019

SEMI Smart Manufacturing Initiative Releases Groundbreaking Industry Benchmark Survey

The SEMI Smart Manufacturing Initiative today released the semiconductor industry’s first Benchmark Survey to assess the current implementation level of automation and control measures aimed at increasing productivity and efficiency in front-end semiconductor fabs.

4 Jul 2019

Cost and Time Efficient Linear Motion: Thomson MLA Series Hybrid Stepper Motor Actuators Available from Heason Technology

Recently introduced by Thomson Industries and available with full support from its UK distribution partner Heason Technology, the new MLA series stepper motor driven lead screw actuator features integral anti-rotation guidance and has been designed as a compelling solution for shorter stroke linear positioning tasks.

From Heason Technology Ltd 4 Jul 2019

Solvent Based Cleaning at High Pressure

Increasing demands on cleanliness, in terms of freedom from both particulate and film-type contaminants, call for the use of adapted cleaning solutions. These now include a new spray cleaning system for solvent-based cleaning machines by Ecoclean.

From Ecoclean GmbH 4 Jul 2019

Industry Leaders Come on Board as NMiTE Adds Engineering Expertise

NMiTE (New Model in Technology and Engineering) the project to create the engineering university of the future, has announced three new appointments to its Board of Trustees; Martin Hitchin, Rowena Innocent and Richard Lindsay-Davies which will come into effect on 1 July 2019.

From Malvern Panalytical 4 Jul 2019

Measurement Knowledge Reduces Downtime from Quarry to Cement Delivery

AMETEK STC has been a proven supplier for over 50 years to the cement industry, from mining to loading trucks with cement. AMETEK STC has released a brochure providing an overview of the process and the solutions available for end-users focused on the continuous process of cement manufacturing.

From AMETEK Drexelbrook 4 Jul 2019