June 7, 2010 – Alliander is a Dutch energy company that serves more than 2.5 million private and business customers in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.

June 7, 2010 – Semaphore announces that the T-BOX WM Wireless Monitor has successfully passed all third party criteria and testing for Ingress Protection level 67 (IP67) and for operation in Class I, Division 1 hazardous areas. Approved products are now shipping.

June 7, 2010 – The Finnish production of Metso’s engineered valves and personnel in automation and power generation in the Helsinki region, all together 800 people, will move to new factory and to adjoined office building at the beginning of 2011. Last Autumn, Metso announced the decision to invest in new facility for engineered valves production in Finland. Metso’s engineered valves factory has operated in Helsinki nearly 50 years

June 7, 2010 – New orders for motion control products jumped 22% in the first quarter of 2010 compared to the same period in 2009, according to new figures from the Motion Control Association (MCA), the industry’s trade group. Compared to the fourth quarter of 2009, the first quarter numbers were up by 27%, an indication that recovery in the motion control market is accelerating, according to Jeff Burnstein, MCA’s President

June 7, 2010 – The electrical machines laboratory at the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) has greatly increased in its effectiveness as a teaching resource since TorqSense non-contact torque sensors from Sensor Technology have been fitted to five machine sets. The new sensors replace an existing system of machine monitoring that had proved inaccurate.

June 7, 2010 – Aftek releases the SoC-based PLC transparent modem that allows two-way data communication over existing AC power lines, without the need of adding / replacing data lines network.

June 7, 2010 – ABB won a contract worth $155 million from the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) for a turnkey project to design and build a new crude-oil transit line and associated ancillary systems.

June 7, 2010 – Advanced Micro Controls (AMCI)released the NR25 series of heavy-duty EtherNet/IP DuraCoder encoders. These networked rotary sensors provide an overall measuring range of 16 bits (single-turn resolution) plus 14 bits (number of revolutions), or 30 bits total

June 7, 2010 – Honeywell announced enhancements to its digital video technology used by industrial facilities to more effectively monitor their processes.

June 7, 2010 — Rockwell Automation expanded the application development capabilities of its FactoryTalk Batch software to help users more rapidly design and run batch applications. The software features new intelligent recipe capabilities, secure operator overrides, expanded data collection and reporting, and improved material management capabilities.