Nearly 750 million litres of drinks produced and around 40,000 bottles every hour: for the past five years, innocent drinks’ “Blender” has been the operational heart of the brand. The state-of-the-art production site in Rotterdam runs 24 hours a day, 364 days a year, supplying European markets with juices and smoothies. After 5 production years the company is looking back at some of its biggest milestones – and at how technology, efficiency and more responsible production processes come together under one roof.
PROFIBUS & PROFINET International strengthens the foundation for safe, flexible, and productive machines and systems in manufacturing and process automation with the updated PROFIsafe specification, a now-available comprehensive test infrastructure, and new and revised application profiles.
Renewal of certificates for secure product development processes and extension to new production sites demonstrates commitment to cybersecurity
Blanchard succeeds Chris Ringlstetter, who is retiring after serving as the company's first President in Europe since ELGi established its operations in the region. During his tenure, Ringlstetter played a pivotal role in building ELGi's European business
Omdia study confirms PROFINET as leading Industrial Ethernet Protocol
The combination will expand engineering resources and application expertise while maintaining continuity for AW-Lake customers
Endress+Hauser, in collaboration with Covestro, BASF and Yokogawa, has conducted a further large-scale Ethernet-APL scalability test, extending validation to more complex and heterogeneous process automation environments.
ennomotive launches a challenge to find intelligent monitoring solutions combining sensors, computer vision and AI for early failure detection in conveyor belts.
First-of-a-kind plant will be inaugurated in Berlin on July 2, 2026.
Despite a challenging market environment, the HIMA Group, a leading provider of safety-related automation solutions, continued its growth in 2025. Revenue rose by 2.4 percent to 190.5 million euros.
The Oil & Gas Automation and Digitalisation Congress (AUTOMA) will take place on 5-6 October 2026 to bring together executives and technical leaders of the industry
Mihails Kusnezoff, Stefan Megel and Sindy Mosch from the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS in Dresden have developed a high-temperature electrolysis stack that is setting new standards worldwide: It generates hydrogen with unprecedented efficiency, can also operate as a fuel cell and is designed for industrial-scale serial production. The technology has earned the three researchers the Joseph von Fraunhofer Prize for 2026.
The companies have signed an agreement to jointly develop the next generation of corrosion management solutions for Saudi Arabian Oil Company, with the aim of preventing unplanned downtime and boosting production efficiency.
Nijhuis Saur Industries (NSI), part of Saur Group, introduced PFAS Resolve at IFAT 2026 in Munich. It is a Saur Group solution: a modular concept combining advanced technologies to address the full spectrum of PFAS contamination directly on site.
UL certificates confirm the EtherCAT Technology Group’s assessment and demonstrate that EtherCAT meets IEC 62443 / CRA requirements for Security Level 2 without modifications
Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that its OpreX™ Open Automation SI Kit for Open Process Automation™ (OPA) systems has been certified for conformance with the OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) profile of the Open Process Automation Standard (O‑PAS™), a first in the process industry.
The ifm group has announced its financial results for the successful 2025 fiscal year.
Qlar is opening a new Test Center for reliable pneumatic conveying in Bangalore, India, supporting customers in the metals, cement and energy sectors. With the facility, Qlar is strengthening its position as a provider of practical test infrastructure.
AIMPLAS, the Plastics Technology Centre, is leading IRION, a European research and innovation project aimed at building a more sustainable and resilient green hydrogen value chain.
At the end of February, NETZSCH Pumps & Systems inaugurated a new, state-of-the-art production facility in Goa. This will more than double the company's previous production capacity in India.
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