Bulten has entered into an agreement to divest its European automotive contract manufacturing business to Maelir, a Swedish investment firm, in a transaction that creates a more focused Bulten and gives the divested business a new long-term owner for its next phase of development.

What a year it has been for the UK automation community! Following hot on the heels of our sold-out Northern event, MachineBuilding.South wrapped up to yet more record crowds earlier this month. But we've been saving the absolute biggest for last.

Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier visited ARaymond's site in Lorrach on 1 July, 2026. The visit was part of his Ortszeit Deutschland ("Local Time Germany") initiative, during which he temporarily relocated his official seat from Berlin to the Three-Country Region (Dreilandereck) at the borders of Germany, France and Switzerland.

Wessex Resins & Adhesives is now a member of MAKE UK Defence. Building on three decades at the forefront of UK defence manufacturing, membership marks a new chapter in the company's growing commitment to the manufacturing industry in the UK.

An outstanding series of free-to-attend presentations is set to be one of the absolute highlights of MachineBuilding.Live this October. Highly anticipated by the engineering community, these sessions are designed to deliver practical, proven ideas you can implement immediately.

bigHead has taken another major step towards reducing its environmental impact by removing the gas heater from its factory. With an average footprint of around 7 tonnes of CO2 per year, it was the largest remaining source of fossil fuel emissions in the company's operations.

On July 8, 1851, Friedrich Karl Luscher founded a trading company for medical dressings in Frankfurt, laying the foundation for what Lohmann is today: a global technology partner for innovative adhesive solutions in intelligent applications.

Southco has partnered with a global leader in new energy technology to co-develop a customised multi-point latching system for energy storage applications. Rather than solving problems for a single company, the collaboration targets industry-wide safety, reliability, and operational challenges in the global energy storage sector.

For many manufacturers, production data exists - but getting it into the hands of the people who can act on it is often the real challenge. At William Hughes that has changed with the introduction of a new real-time production dashboard that gives shop floor teams instant visibility of manufacturing priorities, enabling them to make informed decisions without waiting for updates from the office.