A consortium led by the international plant engineering company M+W Group, headquartered in Stuttgart, has received a major contract from the operator of the British nuclear facility Sellafield, Sellafield Ltd., for the construction of a storage complex for nuclear waste. The facility will be built…

Rubber market weakness, falling oil prices, and tense political situations are currently affecting the Russian market for plastics and rubber technology as well as packaging and processing technology, but they have by no means brought it to a standstill. In Russia and neighboring countries, there re…

Whether it's a feather, an apple, or a brick: in a vacuum, when there is no more friction and only gravity acts, all bodies fall at the same speed. Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, specifically the equivalence principle, predicts this and it aligns with the current worldview of physics. Yet…

At the Elmia Polymer plastics trade fair in Jonköping / Sweden from April 21 – 24, 2015, BOY will demonstrate to the professional attendees a cleanroom application on the compact BOY 35 E (clamping force 350 kN). In the booth of the Swedish BOY distributor AWI Maskin AB in hall / booth A01:15, prote…

EUROMOLD – The World Fair for Moldmaking and Tooling, Design, Additive Manufacturing and Product Development will take place in Düsseldorf from the 22nd to the 25th of September 2015 – EUROMOLD invites exhibitors to Düsseldorf for info days on the 20th and 22nd of January 2015 – New trade fair conce…

Despite the miniaturization and safety of medical devices and implants, batteries or percutaneous cable connections remain the standard as primary energy sources. MedBase® enables contactless energy and data transfer via inductive, resonant coupling. Numerous implanted devices can be supplied with w…

A brand new range of chemical-resistant lab furniture has been unveiled by cleanroom specialist Connect 2 Cleanrooms.

The range is built from Trespa Toplab Base – a brand of high pressure laminate plate – giving an attractive appearance and a range of inherent benefits. As well as being chemical-resi…

For the third year running, RAMPF Production Systems, a leading manufacturer of low-pressure mixing and dispensing systems and renowned automation specialist, has been named official system partner of KUKA Roboter GmbH, one of the world’s leading suppliers of robots and automated production plants a…

These are attractive tax incentives, which have been established in the Benelux countries, but also in large EU countries such as the United Kingdom, and regionally in Switzerland. As of January 1, 2015, Italy also introduced a "Patent Box." In Germany — surprisingly to many experts — Federal Financ…

In Hanover, the state of Lower Saxony, represented by the State Building Management Hanover, is constructing a new research center that, for the first time in the European research landscape, combines basic research, applied research, and technology development in the fields of quantum physics and g…