For a wide range of handling tasks, collaborative robots (cobots) are now the first choice. To fully leverage their advantages in terms of precision, reliability, and flexibility, the right tool is also required. With the RMH series, SMC now offers a pneumatic gripper in three variants that is compa…

At the constituent meeting of the Advisory Board of interpack, the world's leading trade fair for processing & packaging, the Chairman and his two deputies were confirmed in their positions. The Advisory Board thus sends a clear signal of continuity and emphasises the importance of interpack's c…

An excessively high concentration of suspended particles and dust in the environment can impair both the health of employees and the process quality in production or laboratories. An highly effective countermeasure is the use of a high-quality cleanroom mat from Kager. This allows for a significant…

Family-run, customer-oriented, and committed: What has been true since the founding year 1913 remains highly valued at Piepenbrock even after more than a century. This year, the Osnabrück-based company group is celebrating its 111th anniversary – with clear focus areas for the future.

"We are excepti…

The carousel of the machine rotates step by step at a one-second interval. A robotic arm picks up finished glass tubes, approximately two meters long, from an automatic glass storage and hands them over to vertical holders in the machine. The raw glass bodies are moved past horizontally arranged fla…

Hygienic Design, Cleaning Agent Compatibility, and FDA Compliance – The pharmaceutical and chemical industries have clear requirements for their equipment and systems. Schmalz presents at ACHEMA 2024 (June 10-14, Frankfurt am Main), in Hall 3.1 at Stand D1, ergonomic vacuum lifters specifically desi…

– 1,066 exhibitors from 42 countries, around 34,000 visitors from 117 countries
– New record number of participants at the analytica conference
– Focus on digitalization and sustainability in the lab of the future

Great atmosphere in the exhibition halls, lively discussions, and crowded aisles characte…

A very high visitor turnout, a great, work-intensive atmosphere in the three exhibition halls, as well as a multitude of qualified technical discussions and new customer contacts – the ninth edition of PaintExpo from April 9 to 12, 2024, was a complete success. As part of the world’s leading trade f…

With a unique experiment that can only be carried out in zero gravity, BTU researchers want to investigate the effects of global warming on the Earth's polar ice caps and the associated changes in air and ocean currents.

The second phase of the DLR project "AtmoFlow" started in February 2024. AtmoFlo…

The launch is expected to take place at the end of 2026. A system developed by TU Berlin and the Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH) for laser melting of moon dust, known as regolith, will then be flown to the Moon for initial tests. The LZH, as the consortium leader of the project, has now signed a c…