KQ Automation, founded in China in 2008 and expanded into Europe through KQ Automation GmbH in Mönchengladbach, Germany, develops adhesive dispensing, plasma surface treatment, inline quality assurance, and tape application systems for packaging converters, folding carton producers, and commercial printers. With local spare parts stocking and field technicians in Europe,...
MONOCAB is a German R&D initiative developing gyroscopically stabilized, battery-electric, self-driving monorail cabins for four to six passengers, designed to reactivate disused rural rail lines with on-demand, individualized public transport. The second-generation test vehicle will be presented at InnoTrans Berlin in September 2026, as the project prepares to spin off...
Founded in 1997, Kimya is an international specialty chemicals company serving the steel and water treatment industries through two dedicated divisions — Steel Industry Chemicals, focused on flat products processing, and Water Treatment, covering cooling towers, boilers, and industrial wastewater systems. The company combines chemical supply with field monitoring, IoT-enabled...
ATB – Acabamentos Têxteis de Barcelos, founded in 1985 and based in Portugal’s leading textile cluster, is one of Europe’s largest textile dyeing and finishing companies, serving apparel, automotive, sports, and technical textiles markets. Alongside conventional finishing processes, ATB is developing low-impact dyeing through bacteriological fermentation, a water-reduction process in...
WINGAIN Europe Ltd., the European subsidiary of Beijing WINGAIN, manufactures and assembles Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) at its facility in Csongrád, Hungary, serving commercial, industrial, and utility-scale customers across Europe. With electricity prices rising and renewable generation expanding rapidly, demand for grid-stabilization storage solutions continues to accelerate. Csaba Wolf,...
As infrastructure projects grow in complexity, the ability to design systems where every component communicates reliably has become more valuable than the performance of any individual technology. Andrei Iacobiță, Managing Director of IESYS, a systems integration company with experience in airports, road infrastructure, and industrial automation, discusses how the industry is...
Fathom is a US-based manufacturing partner combining CNC machining, additive manufacturing, precision sheet metal, injection molding, and digital production workflows under a single program-management structure. Serving aerospace, defense, medical, semiconductor, and energy markets, the company focuses on reducing manufacturing risk before production begins, through design-for-manufacturability input, process selection, and integrated...
Efficiency is a fundamental measure of automated systems. The starting point of every well-designed project is to deliver higher efficiency for the customer’s business. In this article, Stevia Automation, a Polish control systems integrator with many years of experience in implementing automated internal transport, sorting, and palletizing systems, explains how...
MC-monitoring, a Swiss manufacturer based in Fribourg, designs and produces protection, condition monitoring, and diagnostic systems for critical rotating machines – hydrogenerators, turbogenerators, and gas and steam turbines – used in over 1,000 power plants worldwide. As grid flexibility from wind and solar puts more mechanical stress on turbines that...
RiR & Co is a Spanish textile design studio that fuses traditional craft techniques with innovative materials, best known for its award-winning D-Leite collection of milk protein fibre blankets – hypoallergenic, biodegradable, and EUIPO-registered. Beyond its own designs, the studio offers creative consultancy across fashion, gastronomy, interior design, and architecture,...
EasyMining, part of Sweden’s Ragn-Sells Group, has developed patented technologies to recover phosphorus, potassium, and other critical raw materials from waste ash and process waters, turning municipal and sewage sludge incineration byproducts into commercial-grade fertilizers and salts. With a full-scale Ash2Phos plant under construction in Germany and plans to cover...
Chinese Furnaces is the sole UK distribution agent for Saftherm Furnaces, supplying everything from 1-litre benchtop units to fully automated production furnaces, alongside purchasing, warranty, and heat-treatment advisory support. The company works with universities and research labs developing new materials, as well as manufacturers scaling those processes into production, offering...













