Brüel & Kjær is launching updated versions of both its accelerometer and microphone catalogues, the latter of which also includes details relating to their range of specialised hydrophone transducers.

Total Processing & Packaging 2010 - dates and venue

Total Processing & Packaging 2010 showcases production line products and acts as a launch pad for companies from all over the world that are seeking to promote their machinery, equipment, materials and services to the UK processing and packaging industries.

Casting rigidity aside to think outside of the box...

On a bleak, cold February day, there's nothing sets you up for busy afternoon quite like a wholesome, nine-vegetable winter soup. I like mine good and chunky with gargantuan lumps of carrot, celery, parsnip and potato, with flavours of tomato and onion, and with a splash of white wine for added fortification. The recipe describes it as the king of all soups, and I'm certainly not going to argue. But, chowing down this afternoon, I did wonder when my soup would stop being a soup at all, and instead be better defined as a small casserole. Or, if I chose to run the whole thing through a blender, when would it cease to be a soup and instead become a purée? Or, if I took out all the big chunks of vegetable, when would it instead be better described as a stock?

HES LubeMec to distribute SKF's VOGEL lubrication products

SKF Lubrication Systems is appointing HES LubeMec, a new division of GroupHES Ltd, as an authorised distributor. HES LubeMec will specialise in the design and supply of SKF's VOGEL lubrication components as well as stocking a limited range of products from SKF VOGEL's extensive catalogue. These products are currently being supported from the Group's Gloucester head office and will be rolled out through its branch network in Leeds, Birmingham and Durham over the course of the next few months.

Waste is a huge problem in the UK. We produce over 300million tonnes of waste per year, enough to fill the Albert Hall every two hours, but our love affair with landfills could soon be coming to an end as we run out of space - and time. So what next? A report launched on 4 December 2008 outlines a five-pronged action plan devised by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) urging the government to listen and stop "covering up" a problem no one wants to be "dumped" with.

Free Brewery Process Control brochure from Burkert

Burkert Fluid Control Systems is launching a new publication highlighting the company's expertise in Brewery Process Control. Burkert offers process automation, valve elements, sensors, flowmeters, water treatment systems and networked communications, all of which are integrated to deliver single-source customised systems that provide breweries with higher process efficiency and higher yields.

Food Technology Seminar to focus on robotics

ABB's UK robotics business is inviting food and beverage manufacturers to attend its Food Technology Seminar in Milton Keynes on 21 January 2009. The seminar will present new robotic products, systems and services for food and beverage processing and packaging applications.

Find out how to improve assembly methods

Design engineers, production professionals and senior manufacturing managers who want to put things together better should go to the National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham, on 20 October 2011.

Free DVD contains videos of SCARA robots in action

TM Robotics is offering a free interactive DVD that features video case studies of SCARA robots in action. The collection features the machines performing a number of pick-and-place, packaging and unpacking operations in industries including food manufacturing, retail, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods and logistics.