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10.06.2022 • News

Hima appoints new Vice President

Peter Sieber has been appointed Vice President Strategic Marketing for the Hima Group. In this newly created position, he will drive forward the digitization of functional safety and further expand the company's position as an independent solution provider in safety-related automation.

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08.06.2022 • News

Siemens takes over Senseye

With the acquisition of Senseye, Siemens is expanding its portfolio with solutions for predictive maintenance and asset intelligence.

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07.06.2022 • News

“Milestone in quantum sensor technology”

In medical care, magnetic fields of heart and brain activity are measured to detect diseases at an early stage. To measure even the smallest magnetic fields, researchers at Fraunhofer IAF are working on a new approach: diamond-based laser threshold magnetometry.

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07.06.2022 • News

Hannover Messe: The organizer draws a positive conclusion

The first Hanover Fair after two years was a success for exhibitors and organizers. The trade fair has shown that industrial transformation is making great strides and that industry can already provide answers to the challenges of climate protection and security of supply.

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03.06.2022 • News

How to harvest solar power at night

Australian researchers have developed a device that can generate electricity from thermal radiation based on similar technology to night-vision goggles.

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03.06.2022 • News

75 years of SAB Bröckskes in Viersen

The company history of SAB begins in 1947 with Peter Bröckskes senior. and a workshop in a shed in Süchteln as well as a "capital" of 100 Reichsmarks.

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03.06.2022 • News

AMA Association Continues to Record Clearly Positive Results

"Our members' economic results continue to show an upward trend in the first quarter, " says Thomas Simmons, executive director of the AMA Association for Sensor and Measurement Technology. The biggest challenge facing our industry remains the procurement difficulties that determine our members' ability to deliver."

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03.06.2022 • News

Sieb & Meyer wins the Lower Saxony Foreign Trade Award

​​​​​​​Drive solutions and control technology from Lüneburg are in demand worldwide: In 2021, Sieb & Meyer was able to record an export quota of 92 percent. The company has now been awarded the Lower Saxony Foreign Trade Prize in the large company category. The award ceremony took place on June 1, 2022 as part of the Hanover Fair.

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03.06.2022 • News

Change in the Carl Zeiss Executive Board

Susan-Stefanie Breitkopf joins the Executive Board in the role of Chief Transformation Officer (CTO). With the move to BSH Hausgeräte, Matthias Metz will leave the Executive Board. Effective July 1, 2022, Sven Hermann, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer of Zeiss Vision Care, will succeed him.

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02.06.2022 • News

TQ Systems merges three plants

The TQ Systems plant in Peiting is being expanded and will also accommodate the capacities of the Peißenberg and Murnau plants from summer 2022.

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01.06.2022 • News

VDMA Significantly Reduces Production Forecast for 2022

The Ukraine war and the lockdowns in China are weakening production growth in the machinery and plant engineering sector. Business with Russia has come to a virtual standstill. The VDMA is therefore revising its production forecast for 2022 from plus 4 to plus 1 percent.

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01.06.2022 • News

Mixing laser- and X-ray-beams

German scientists investigate a new photonic process by overlapping ultrashort pulses of soft X-rays and infrared radiation in a single crystal of lithium fluoride.

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30.05.2022 • News

Igus presents Bike made from recycled plastic

igus presented a concept for an urban bike at the Hanover Fair. It is produced maintenance-free, without lubricants and from recycled plastic. The first model should be available by the end of the year.

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30.05.2022 • News

Entanglement in classical systems

Two scientists from UK and Mexico present new opportunities of diversified non-separable states of light for both fundamental science and applications in the near future.

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27.05.2022 • News

Yang wins German research award

Lan Yang, at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has been selected to receive the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award.

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27.05.2022 • News

AKL eV has a new management team

Dr Markus Kogel-Hollacher from Precitec and Dr Claus Schnitzler from Amphos were elected as the association’s new managing director and treasurer on May 5.

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24.05.2022 • News

Daimler acquires stake in Manz

The companies have signed a cooperation agreement on a strategic partnership to establish a pilot line for the production of lithium-ion battery cells and for the assembly of batteries at Daimler Truck’s Mannheim site.

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24.05.2022 • News

Philip Harting remains chairman of AUMA

At the suggestion of the BDI (Federal Association of Industry), the AUMA (Exhibition and Trade Fair Committee of German Industry) re-elected Philip Harting as Chairman of the Board.

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