Carlo Gavazzi continues to broaden its external sales team to support its vast product range by naming Simon Fairbanks as its newest recruit. Simon joins the company as regional sales manager and is responsible for the West Country and the Midlands.

ABB’s Robotics and Discrete Automation business is expanding its presence in Ireland with the opening of a new office in Dundalk, Co Louth. It will provide customers with access to sales, service, and support for a full range of automated technologies including ABB’s industrial and mobile robots and machine automation solutions from B&R.

The UK’s largest event for processing equipment, packaging machinery, industrial robots and machine vision systems, the PPMA Show, returns to the NEC, Birmingham from 26-28 September 2023.

To ensure the same level of theft protection as a delivery van on its environmentally friendly cargo bike, Urban Mobility sought support from an expert in locking systems – and it found in Emka.

Honouring William G Search with the Distributor of the Year Award, Ariel Rubinstein, general manager at Atlas Copco Compressors, said: “At Atlas Copco, we want to recognise and celebrate partners who contribute towards our overall growth.

See Scorpion Vision at MachineBuilding.Live, 4 October 2023, on stand 35

When the world’s largest beverage can manufacturer was experiencing regular, unexpected production stoppages due to the premature failure of spray-head bearings in its coating machines, the company turned to the expertise of NSK.

See LG Motion at MachineBuilding.Live, 4 October 2023, on stand 13

See Festo at MachineBuilding.Live, 4 October 2023, on stand 27

A packaging solution with robotics integrated control from Omron and B Electrical Engineering ensures scalable processes and high-quality contract manufacturing of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG).