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Maintenance Matters
Rethinking corrosion protection in process plants
Wednesday, 29 July 2026
Corrosion protection plays a critical role in preserving industrial assets, particularly in process plants where equipment is routinely exposed to aggressive chemicals and demanding operati
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Manufacturing
CAD Visualisation as key to modern supplier communication
Wednesday, 29 July 2026
Communication between OEMs and suppliers—such as mould and die manufacturers—is now a critical factor in ensuring fast development and procurement processes.
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Motors & Drives
Bonfiglioli Powers The Future of Clean Energy
Wednesday, 29 July 2026
The New Zealand Government’s Wood Energy Strategy and Action Plan is driving a significant shift in energy production, with coal plants being converted to allow for the burning of torrefied wood pe
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Automation
Why Smart Factories Need Smarter Safety Systems
Wednesday, 22 July 2026
In the world of modern manufacturing, machine safety is no longer limited to physical barriers and emergency stops.
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Manufacturing
The stocktake is in - and NZ manufacturers enter FY2027 with the leanest warehouses in three years
Wednesday, 22 July 2026
With new data revealing stock levels are down 57% year-on-year, New Zealand manufacturers are entering the new financial year leaner, under more margin pressure, and with less buffer for error than
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Automation
Tackling leakage in an era of “weather whiplash”
Wednesday, 22 July 2026
With drought and flooding increasingly arriving in quick succession, water companies need leakage strategies that can adapt just as quickly.
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Electrical Technology
Protecting built heritage from within
Wednesday, 22 July 2026
Some of our most important connections to the past are not found in museums, but in the buildings that continue to stand at the heart of towns and cities.
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Industry 4.0 / IOT
The Last Mile of AI: Why Your Engineering and Manufacturing Supply Chain “Pilot” Never Makes It into Production
Wednesday, 22 July 2026
Across the engineering and manufacturing sector, AI has become the centerpiece of supply chain modernisation conversations.
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Energy Efficiency
Fricy food trend needs reliable processing equipment
Wednesday, 22 July 2026
For manufacturers, the fricy trend presents two key challenges in terms of processing. The first is that the importance of flavour and texture in these (sometimes novel) foodstuffs means that it is...
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Industry 4.0 / IOT
BMW Group advances the use of Physical AI in production with Figure 03 project in Spartanburg
Wednesday, 22 July 2026
BMW Group intensifies the usage of digitalisation and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in production.
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Manufacturing
Your manufacturing & engineering supply chain tech implementation went live but no one knows how to use it
Wednesday, 15 July 2026
When a manufacturing and engineering supply chain technology implementation reaches go live, the typical reaction inside the organisation is relief.
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Food & Beverage
Next-generation rotating retractors clean hard-to-reach areas in processing lines
Wednesday, 15 July 2026
The introduction of the high-performance CIP cleaning devices underscores Alfa Laval’s commitment to providing manufacturers across the dairy, food, beverage, pharmaceutical, and biotech industries
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Motors & Drives
Nordac Fusion: combines motor and inverter into a compact high-performance unit
Wednesday, 15 July 2026
With Nordac Fusion, Nord Drivesystems launches a powerful drive system that combines motor and inverter into a compact unit.
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Automation
Industrial Ethernet in eight of ten new nodes
Wednesday, 15 July 2026
HMS Networks has released its annual analysis of the industrial network market, marking twelve consecutive years of tracking how factories and machine builders connect their automation systems.
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Equipment
Lose your cool with the HRS I Series
Wednesday, 15 July 2026
Not-from-concentrate (NFC) juices – and orange juice in particular – continue to grow in popularity, with global transport dominated by frozen juice to maintain quality and freshness.
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