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With a new team Fried Kunststofftechnik is expanding competencies in product development and product design. As Fried Design Solutions the product designers accompany Fried customers from the first sketch to series production.

Universal Robots is growing and expanding its distribution network in Germany with two new integration partners. The added Certified System Integrators are OH-au2mate GmbH from Ponitz and Müller & Pfeiffer GmbH from Chemnitz.

To simplify the search for raw materials based on legal requirements and technical specifications, manufacturers collect their additives, binders and pigments in the Coatino database.

The transformation of woodworking, accelerated by the pandemic, is the focus topic of the upcoming LIGNA. Prefabrication processes in wood construction and process technologies of the bioeconomy will also be highlighted.

An autonomous ride-on scrubber-dryer and the first battery-powered industrial vacuum cleaner for warehouses and logistics are highlights from Nilfisk. The innovations can be seen at LogiMAT 2022 in Stuttgart.

Pascal Friederich receives a Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize from the German Research Foundation (DFG). The award is considered the most important award for young scientists in Germany.

Solvay's Addibond polymer is used as a thin adhesion promoter film between aluminum and adhesives in automotive applications. It is Solvay's 13th product with this label.

BASF has opened a new laboratory building in Münster for the development of automotive refinish coatings. The laboratory is one part of a series of global technical innovations of the Coatings division.

"Solutions for high-precision surface machining" is the motto of Supfina Grieshaber's trade show appearance at GrindingHub in Stuttgart.

Despite the challenges, Audi successfully completed the 2021 fiscal year: The Group reports record operating profit and net cash flow in its annual report.

Buzil, manufacturer of advanced cleaning solutions, appoints Dr. Manfred Oberreiter as managing director. Together with the owner, he heads the company with immediate effect.

Chemistry manufacturer launches sustainability initiative across the entire value chain. The initiative focuses on the end product and formulation in addition to the production of the additive.

With LiquiSonic, process fluids can be easily monitored in real time, for example during chlor-alkali electrolysis, a widely used and important process step in chemical production.

The new joint venture for precious metals recycling will be located in Pinghu, China. Chinese customers of BASF and Heraeus are to benefit from the modern technologies for the recovery of precious metals.

The new star for photovoltaics could be perovskite solar cells. Spatial Atomic Layer Deposition, or SALD technology for short, offers the potential to improve their properties in such a way that perovskite cells become suitable for applications. But promising applications are also emerging for…

Following the launch of direct sales in Spain, Krüss GmbH now also offers its customers in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg direct access to its entire portfolio of services by selling directly instead of via a reseller model.

Effective May 1, the Wacker Group will increase prices worldwide for dispersions, polymer resins and dispersible polymer powders by up to twelve percent, insofar as existing customer contracts allow.

Materials specialist Schunk, which among other things offers series production in the field of metal powder pressing and injection molding, has now expanded its expertise at the Thale site as a service provider in 3D metal printing.

The jewelry house Tournaire and Meljac, electrical appliance manufacturer, jointly develop design bronze light switches signed Meljac X Tournaire Décor. The switches are available in various iconic motifs, in a wide range of finishes.

With Abramotion, the first sensitive sanding robot for the window industry, Adler Lacke has caused a sensation among experts. Now the spectacular new development has been awarded the Tyrolean Innovation Prize.