The Volkswagen Group wants to cut energy consumption. The target is 25 per cent less by 2018. To help achieve this, a pump control system from Grundfos has been installed at the production plant in Braunschweig. The sun reflects in the ...
Tags: Grundfos, Volkswagen, Energy Savings
Kirloskar Ebara Pumps Ltd, a sister concern of Kirloskar Brothers Ltd and a manufacturer of critical process pumps and API steam turbines, has completed the testing of indigenously-developed API steam turbine K-TUR, at the KEPL ...
Tags: LED, KEPL, electronic products
Konica Minolta, Inc. will launch a new textile digital printing model at the end of 2015, which it will also showcase to a global audience at ITMA 2015. According to a Konica press release, the Nassenger SP-1 is a high-productivity, ...
Tags: textile digital printing, printing
Laminating and coating machines producer Lacom will introduce at ITMA 2015, a new generation machines for the treatment of flexible substrates. According to a Lacom press release, the key feature of the system is that hotmelt's are not ...
Film and sheet extrusion machinery firm Macro Engineering & Technology (Canada) has established a 1.8m wide line having nine extruders and a nine-layer die design for a European customer. The line produces various barrier structures to ...
Tags: Nine-Layer Line, bags
Sonoco Alloyd, an arm of global packaging leader Sonoco, will integrate robots manufactured by Rethink Robotics into its sealing machines system to offer complete automation to its customers. US-based medical and retail package design ...
Tags: sealing machines, medical package
The Taiwan Cabinet or its executive ministry plans to spend roughly NT$36 billion (US$1.16 billion) over the next nine years on its “Productivity 4.0” project beginning this year, with the aim of boosting the island's total ...
Tags: Productivity 4.0, 4.0 standards
With 8 months still to go for the Japan International Apparel Machinery and Textile Industry Trade Fair “JIAM 2016 Osaka”, 80 per cent of the exhibition space of has already been booked, the Japan Sewing Machinery Manufactures ...
The emissions from compressed natural gas (CNG)-run buses have the potential for causing cancers in human beings due to the presence of ‘nanocarbon’ particles. This has been revealed by a study conducted by Council of ...
Tags: CNG Vehicles, natural gas
Gerhard Schubert will showcase a prototype of its TLM packaging machine sans an electrical cabinet, at the FachPack 2015 trade show in Nuremberg, Germany, to be held between September 29 and October 1. The absence of an electrical cabinet ...
Earlier this month packaging expert Des King discussed why looks count and first impressions matter when it comes to building market share. Here, he continues his exploration of digital packaging, mobile technology, and the industry's ...
Tags: Digital Packaging, packaging
Italian packaging machinery company SIPA has launched two single-stage PET injection stretch blow moulders for small production runs. Sales manager Pietro Marcati said the ECS SP80 and ECS SP50 “fill the last gap” in the ...
Tags: PET injection, packaging machinery
Considering a higher demand in the field of decorative and furniture fabrics, Heimtextil which takes place from January 12-15, 2016 is expanding the size of the Window and Upholstery segments. According to a Messe Frankfurt press release, ...
Tags: furniture fabrics, Digital Textile
Germany-based Bosch Packaging Technology will showcase its latest technologies for packaging bars and baked items in its maiden appearance at IBA 2015, in Munich, in September. The company's Pack 301 LS (Length Slug) mid-range automation ...
In the first six months of this year, Taiwan exported US$10.12 billion of machinery, including US$1.64 billion of machine tools, both of which representing year-to-year decreases, with the total export inching down 0.4 percent and the ...
Tags: machinery exports, machine tools