Das Fraunhofer-Institut für Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung IPA bekommt einen Neubau in Stuttgart-Vaihingen. Mit dem Spatenstich eröffnet am 27. September Baden-Württembergs Wirtschaftsministerin Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut zusammen mit Thomas Bauernhansl, Institutsleiter des Fraunhofer IPA…

Connect 2 Cleanrooms Ltd (C2C) has completed a new 340m2 cleanroom facility for Ilika PLC at its 1600m2 Stereax—millimetre-scale solid-state batteries—manufacturing facility. 

The cleanroom is a key element of Ilika’s new facility as it scales up Stereax, to become the first volume manufacturer of mic…

The Jenoptik Group intends to build a state-of-the-art production building with office complex in Dresden. In total, the photonics group is planning to invest around 70 million euros in a cleanroom facility for micro-optics and sensors for semiconductor equipment. Jenoptik acquired a 24,000-square-m…

Wie aus der Kantine ein Reinraum wurde. Die B. Braun-Tochter Aesculap nimmt nach Zusammenarbeit mit der Reinraumfirma Schilling Engineering neuen Reinraum in Betrieb. Die 1200 m² große Anlage für die Montage und Verpackung von sterilen chirurgischen Instrumenten und neurochirurgischen Implantaten…

SP Scientific Products (SP) announces that to stay ahead of the ever-increasing global demand for its state-of-the-art fill-finish and lyophilization (freeze dryer) equipment, it has more than doubled its worldwide manufacturing capacity. Central to this expansion is the opening of a new large-scale…

CSA Group, the global leader in Standards Development and in Testing, Inspection and Certification, will open its new European headquarters and state-of-the-art laboratory in Bayern, Germany, in 2021. The 12,300 square-metre facility will offer a number of expanded services to European manufacturers…

- New: additive manufacturing hub at Arburg Shanghai
- In demand: Freeformers for producing benchmark parts in China
- Targeted: Arburg Prototyping Center puts China’s local market needs in the spotlight

In March 2021, Arburg officially opened its new Arburg Prototyping Center (APC) in Shanghai as part…

- Harald Kroeger: “Chips for tomorrow’s mobility solutions will soon be produced in Dresden.”
- Pioneer in Industry 4.0: Bosch to use connected and highly automated processes in chip production from the outset.
- Highly sophisticated process: fabrication of a chip from a wafer involves several hundred st…

Data centres require a lot of energy and have a correspondingly large carbon footprint. This can change in the future. The data centre operator Windcloud, in cooperation with the company Eschenburg EKK and the Dierck Group, has developed a revolu-tionary data centre that works with electricity from…

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A manufacturer of medical tests is building a machine for producing rapid coronavirus antibody tests. The machine can produce 40 tests per minute. For this purpose, the customer requires a pallet circulation system on which the tests can be assembled by robots fully automatically.  The finished…