Due to increasing government emphasis on energy conservation and environmental issues, China’s emulsion polymers markets are witnessing growth, as emulsion polymers are environment-friendly and result in lower emissions than many alternatives.

Mario Töpfer outlines the capabilities provided by one company working in the area of installing tubing and hose lines for construction machines.

Sensortechnics is launching a family of optical liquid level switches, adding to the company's existing range of liquid level products that consists of submersible level sensors and industrial pressure transmitters.

David Goin looks at how tubing is designed to reduce significantly unplanned outages, increase the time between shutdowns and equipment replacements, and accommodate more aggressive process conditions.

Michael Golek looks at a new development in automotive painting which eliminates the necessity for a separate primer layer in automotive OEM coatings.

Louis Johnson presents a process to increase the accuracy of pass/fail decisions made on visual defects and reduce these defects, advancing your quality objectives in an area that is commonly overlooked.

Centrifuge specialist Thomas Broadbent Ltd has sold large-scale decanter centrifuges to Chinese producers of Pure Terepthalic Acid (PTA), an oil-based chemical used in the production of polyester fibres.

High performance real-time, signal analysis system using RF Engines' Pipelined Frequency Transform implemented in an FPGA design

A new version of its Geolus Search 3D geometric shape search technology that is capable of searching across numerous CAD formats

3Dlabs has launched a chip for 3D graphics in satnav, along with playing high definition video, NXP and Tensilica are aiming at low cost systems

Water Tough WTF bearings from NSK are said to last three times longer than conventional bearings in applications contaminated with water

Safetyeye, a safety system from Pilz, uses three cameras to monitor a three-dimensional zone around a hazardous machine

EOS is introducing the Formiga P 100 laser sintering machine and two new plastics materials for use with it: Eosint P 730 and Eosint P 390

Red Cavaney, president and ceo of the American Petroleum Institute argues that a combination of technology and a free marketplace will determine how successful renewable energy becomes

The new CPU-1464 single-board computer from Eurotech is designed for real-time applications such as for telecommunications

Bird and bat friendly, the design does not have the mechanical noise often associated with commercial wind turbines

Employed for temperature maintenance on process lines and for frost protection to exposed pipes, vessels and other equipment

Regenerate energy back into mains supply under braking without need for intermediate storage, resistive dumping or additional power bridges

The gears are precision fabricated from engineering plastics, and feature a tooth profile that has been developed to minimise noise generation

Richard Lambert was editor of the Financial Times newspaper until 2001, and from June 2003 he was one of the nine members of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England