The digital integration of industry, energy and logistics is gathering pace, with traditional boundaries between industries breaking down, productivity rising and new business models popping up like mushrooms. In April 2018, HANNOVER MESSE and CeMAT will lend their combined weight to this trend and take Industry 4.0 to the next...
SPS – Industrial Automation Fair Guangzhou (SIAF), hailed as the leading industrial automation industry event, will once again be held at the China Import and Export Fair Complex in Guangzhou from 4 – 6 March 2018. Since the show opened to exhibitors for booking in April, it has confirmed over...
The German plant manufacturer WELTEC BIOPOWER recently signed the contract for a biogas plant extension of the milk powder producer Estancias del Lago (EDL) in Uruguay. From late 2018, the plant with its eight digesters will generate a rated thermal input of more than 6 Megawatt from cattle manure and...
Forty years ago, Caterpillar rolled off of its production lines 10 pilot models of the world’s largest, most powerful dozer, destined to leave a lasting legacy on the industry. The Cat® D10 dozer’s radically different design, high weight and horsepower, and resilient undercarriage answered the growing calls from large mining...
From 19 to 21 October Biesse opened the doors of its Pesaro campus to demonstrate the advantages that its technologies provide to those who work with wood and plastic. Within the Tech Centre visitors had the opportunity to get to know SOPHIA, the Biesse platform that originated as an IoT...
In the course of 2017, Ireland intends to initiate the energy reform with a new feed-in tariff for renewable energies. The government plans to increase the amount of green electricity from the current figure of about 23 percent to 40 percent by 2020. The tariff system is to establish a...
Buoyed by a strong global economy, the next Magna ExpoMueblera trade fair and its two flagship shows, Magna Expo Mueblera Industrial and Magna Expo Mobiliario e Interiores, will be in an excellent position when it opens it gates from 17 to 20 January 2018 at the Centro Banamex exhibition center...
Did you know that concrete is the most used material in the world in terms of volume, where about 6 billion cubic meters of concrete is made each year, which equals one cubic meter for every person on Earth? Having said that, it is noticeable that concrete is exclusive among...
Kramer-Werke GmbH, a Wacker Neuson SE company, and John Deere GmbH & Co. KG, a member of the Deere & Company group, USA, announced that they were entering into a strategic alliance focusing on the sale of Kramer-branded telescopic handlers and wheel loaders for the agricultural sector. The European anti-trust...
A job site in South Africa has demonstrated that the VÖGELE MT 3000-2 Offset PowerFeeder improves pavement quality. Proof comes from the University of Twente, Netherlands, which monitored the project from a scientific perspective – and their equipment included RoadScan, the innovative temperature-measurement system from VÖGELE. Organizing paving work so...
The biogas plant in Vettin, located in the municipality of Groß Pankow, went into regular operation in April 2017. The planning office Green line from Flensburg is the general planner of the plant using input materials such as slurry, solid manure, and maize silage. The 8.5 megawatt biogas plant is...
Raimondi’s exclusive agent in France, GP Mat International (GP MAT), has completed the installation of six of the Italian manufacturer’s cranes in Saclay, a southwestern suburb of Paris. Under the direction of GP MAT President Frank Torchard, 10 of the company’s employees worked on the crane erections, including those with...
