Kaneka Belgium, a subsidiary of the Japanese leading technology-driven chemical company Kaneka Corporation, has selected Siemens’ state-of-the-art MOM platform, SIMATIC IT Unified Architecture for Process Industries (SIMATIC IT UA PI), as its new manufacturing execution system (MES)

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TouchPath is launching a new version of ‘TouchMES’, its performancedriven manufacturing execution system (MES) which records and displays machine control and other shop floor data accurately and in real time

TechSee, the category leader in Intelligent Visual Support, has successfully completed a partnership programme with Orange Spain, the leading telecom network operator in Spain

Scientists have engineered an enzyme which can digest some of our most commonly polluting plastics, providing a potential solution to one of the world’s biggest environmental problems

Award-winning healthcare company JRI Orthopaedics has been acquired by China’s leading orthopaedic implant company AK Medical in a £16.7m deal

One year after announcing its acquisition of B&R (Bernecker + Rainer Industrie-Elektronik GmbH), ABB is to invest €100 million in Austria to build a state-of-the-art innovation and training campus at the home of B&R in Eggelsberg, Upper Austria

Edinburgh-based manufacturer, Vert Rotors, has introduced a new, portable microcompressor that will allow manufacturers to deliver incredibly high levels of compressed air wherever and whenever they need it

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David Nieper in Derbyshire has become the first ever British fashion manufacturer to break into Britain’s prestigious ‘Best 100 Companies to Work For’ list published for 2018 by The Sunday Times