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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 collaboration with the University of Coimbra, and a textile innovation centre built...
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, General Manager of WINGAIN Europe, discusses the company’s latest high-density containerized BESS...
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 shifting from equipment optimization to system architecture design, and why interoperability, not...
In 1993, Meilleur Co., Ltd. began its journey with the import and sales of a single pair of earplugs. Since its founding, the company has stayed true to its core belief: “To offer medical devices that we would proudly use for our own family and friends.” Today, Meilleur employs 34 team members and generated an annual revenue of approximately JPY 1 billion (€5.55 million)...
The Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology and Automation (IPA) has tested three Montech AG belt conveyors for cleanroom use and certified them. These cleanroom belt conveyors meet the high requirements of ISO cleanroom classes 4 to 6 and offer companies in the pharmaceutical, chemical, and semiconductor industries custom-tailored solutions for their sensitive production processes. The Fraunhofer IPA is recognized worldwide for its...
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 quality systems. How does your company define efficiency in today’s industrial landscape,...
Electronics manufacturing has changed significantly in recent years. Product life cycles are becoming short and shorter, and product variants are on the rise. At the same time, the demands on quality and traceability are constantly increasing. Additional pressure is exerted by external factors such as fragile supply chains and the persistent shortage of skilled labor. At the same time, the technological complexity...
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 the solutions used in intralogistics automation projects contribute to increased efficiency of...
KVS Ltd, the developer of QUICKSURFACE, helps engineers transform 3D scan data into accurate, editable CAD models more efficiently. By combining practical automation with direct engineering control, QUICKSURFACE reduces repetitive modelling work while preserving accuracy, flexibility, and the original design intent of the component. Efficiency begins after the scan Industrial efficiency is no longer simply about completing the same task faster. It...
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 once ran at steady load, demand for continuous, multi-parameter monitoring is accelerating...
SAFERTOS® by Wittenstein High Integrity Systems (WHIS) is a certified, safety-critical real-time operating system built on the FreeRTOS functional model, letting developers prototype on FreeRTOS and migrate seamlessly to a certified environment. Certified to IEC 61508 SIL 3, ISO 26262 ASIL D, and DO-178C, SAFERTOS® has recorded zero in-field incidents since WHIS began developing safety-critical RTOS solutions in 2005. We spoke with...
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, and is now seeking industry partners to scale production for international markets....
MALTEX, a Polish manufacturer based in Bydgoszcz with over 35 years of plastics-processing experience, produces children’s care products, bathroom accessories, and children’s furniture exported to more than 40 countries. Alongside its own brands, the company offers full OEM and Private Label manufacturing, from product design through production, quality control, and logistics, for international retailers and distributors. A brief description of the company...
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 up to 50% of the country’s sewage sludge ash market, the company...
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 equipment roughly 50% cheaper than European alternatives without compromising quality. We spoke...
