News
Lone Star Funds to acquire BASF’s Construction Chemicals business
BASF and an affiliate of Lone Star, a global private equity firm, have signed a purchase agreement for the acquisition …Read More
Digital mining firm Hexagon acquires Blast Movement Technologies
Hexagon announced in January the acquisition of Blast Movement Technologies (BMT) from RCF Jolimont Mining Innovation (Jersey). BMT supplies a …Read More
Gordon McKenzie appointed president and CEO of Canpotex
The board of directors of Canpotex Ltd. has announced the appointment of J. Gordon (Gord) McKenzie as president and chief …Read More
Bosch Packaging Technology is now Syntegon
Syntegon Technology is the new name in the processing and packaging industry. Known as Bosch Packaging Technology until late 2019, …Read More
Kadant Johnson appoints Bill Covell R&D controls specialist
Three Rivers, MI-based Kadant Johnson has appointed of Bill Covell to the newly created position of R&D electrical, instrumentation, and …Read More
Products
Plant system platform adds software to validate mass balance and yield accounting data
To help manufacturers ensure the highest accuracy and confidence in plant measurement systems, Emerson has added the Sigmafine platform to …Read More
Ultrasonic proximity sensors provide 60 to 8000 mm sensing distance
SU, UK, UT and TU series round body and UQ series cubic plastic ultrasonic distance sensors from AutomationDirect are now …Read More
Long-term support for Pepperl+Fuchs thin clients
In 2020, Microsoft will stop providing support and security updates for the Windows 7 operating system. To avoid security gaps, …Read More
Insertion magnetic inductive flowmeter for conductive liquids
An electrically conductive media flowing through an oriented magnetic field, in accordance to Faraday’s law of induction, will induce a …Read More
Automation commissioning software gets systems up and running quickly, simply
With free, PC-based Festo Automation Suite commissioning software, getting a new drive package up and running can be done in …Read More
Features
Weighing in on concrete plant design
For more than 30 years, J. McCoy Equipment has built concrete batch plants and ready-mixed concrete facilities. Oshawa Bearing provides …Read More
A.I. equipment tackles health monitoring and predictive maintenance
New cloud-based, IoT-enabled equipment health monitoring and predictive maintenance systems are the first of many exciting AI-based (artificial intelligence) smart …Read More
Choosing the right communication platform for remote monitoring
For decades, municipalities, utilities, manufacturing organizations and others have used remote terminal unit (RTU) technology to facilitate the alarm notification, …Read More
