Fagor Automation, a company specializing in developing and manufacturing machine automation and control products, presents its new website.In addition to description videos for each of Fagor Automation’s businesses and the company’s corporate video, this new website has a closer service section where the user can display the company’s entire worldwide sales and service network, and the download section offers all kinds of material.The website also offers the possibility to subscribe to Fagor Automation’s blog www.automationintheworld.com that continuously provide information about the latest novelties of Fagor Automation in five languages.The main goal of Fagor Automation to launch the new website is to go on creating a more accessible and friendly environment for their customers by using the new 2.0 communication tools like Twitter, Flickr and Vimeo.

Binder-USA has expanded its M12 Series 763 product line with a cable specifically designed for CAN-bus applications. The over-molded connectors are designed for industrial network applications including factory automation. The single-ended cordsets are offered in both male and female versions with 5 gold-plated contacts.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has recently inaugurated the Mitsubishi Electric Automation Solution Center in Shanghai.The Mitsubishi Electric Automation Solution Center is a one-stop center for sales and service established to strengthen the company’s factory automation (FA) solutions business in China.

MULTIVAC, a Germany-based global leader in the manufacture of thermoform packaging machinery has won the DuPont Award of the packaging industry for its innovative Heinz Dip & Squeeze ketchup pack in the category of ‘ Innovations which change the way we eat ‘. Judged independently, the prestigious award is the oldest global award within the packaging industry, with this years competition garnering over 200 entries from North and South America, Europe and the Asian Pacific region. “We are very appreciative of the recognition which the distinguished jury panel has expressed for the Dip & Squeeze pack”, states Jan Erik Kuhlmann,  president and chief executive officer of the North American subsidiary of MULTIVAC, during the awarding of the prize, which took place this past June.

Handtmann A-Punkt Automation GmbH has recently appointed Wolfgang Nielsch as its new manager in charge of the continuation of quality management at the German machine tool manufacturer by the DIN EN ISO 9001:2008 certification.”Regarding the topic of quality management, a lot of things had been written and said. But we should take our time to think about it.

MONTREAL: Boralex Inc. has powered up its first solar park, with an installed capacity of 4.5 megawatts in the Midi-Pyrenees region in France. The Montreal power company installed the park at the same site as its wind farm, which has a 12.5-megawatt capacity

Harting adds management functions to Fast Track Switching technology download Harting Fri, 24 Jun 2011 Harting has improved its Ethernet-based Fast Track Switching technology with the introduction of a range of management functions, covering determinism, availability, redundancy, reliability and diagnosis.

BURLINGTON, Ont.: Siemens Canada picked a suitably sunny day to announce that its plant in Burlington, Ont. is now producing SINVERT solar inverters for Ontario’s clean energy market, which the company says should lead to 50 new skilled jobs.

One innovation often deserves another—especially when it comes to healthy new products such as drinkable yogurt beverages produced by Danone Inc.

There’s no business like show business for the technologically-savvy Canadian label manufacturer and converter ASL Print FX of Vaughan, Ont., whose latest work for the Dan Aykroyd Sauvignon Blanc wine label—owned by highly-acclaimed Canadian-born Hollywood living legend Dan Aykroyd—earned the company a World Label Award for technical achievement last month, along with priceless publicity of basking in  the spotlight of World Label Award Association ’s awards gala in Palm Beach, Fla. Selected as winning entry in the international competition’s Flexo Multi-Process Color Process category, the Dan Aykroyd label (see picture) was printed stochastically to enhance print quality using UV (ultraviolet) flexo inks, according to ASL president Charlie MacLean, incorporating advanced finishing techniques and processes such as holographic cold foil, matte/gloss varnish, gold hot-stamping, and raised-varnish silkscreening