With the launch of its new website, KISSsoft focuses its strategy on digitizing the customer section and presenting a clearly structured and easy-to-use information and download platform. KISSsoft.com offers revised content, additional services, and functions, a clear structure as well as a slick new appearance. With eight language versi
Velodyne Lidar, Inc. has announced a multi-year sales agreement with NAVYA, a leading company in autonomous driving systems. Since 2015, NAVYA has been using Velodyne lidar sensors in production for its autonomous shuttle fleet that provides mobility services to cities and private sites. NAVYA plans to pursue the worldw
Continental introduces new beverage hose, Vintner Reserve 250 EPDM, to the North American market. It is designed with improved chemical and temperature resistance capabilities for wine, beer and beverage production. “Cleaning conditions in the production end of the wine and brewery businesses are changing constantly,” s
As part of the 23rd Environmental Communication Awards, NSK Ltd. (NSK; Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan; President & CEO: Toshihiro Uchiyama) received an excellence award for environmental communication in NSK Report 2019 from the Ministry of the Environment and the Global Environmental Forum. This past November, NSK Report 2019 also recei
Amorphology recently joined the American Gear Manufacturers Association (AGMA). Amorphology applies advanced materials and manufacturing technologies specifically towards improving gears for robotics. The company's powders and coatings technology allows for enhanced performance on inferior substrates. Amorphology changes the paradigm
The Hydraulic Institute (HI) installed new leadership during the 2020 Annual Conference at the J.W. Marriott Starr Pass Resort & Spa in Tucson, AZ. Three new board members joined the HI board of directors for three-year terms: •Don Kenney, president, North America Water Systems, Franklin Electric •Sta
NKE Austria recently introduced electrically insulated rolling bearings. The special bearings SQ77 feature a built-in electrical insulation, which provides reliable protection against current discharge and the resulting electrical corrosion. Typical applications of electrically insulated rolling bearings are electric motors, generators a
Supremex Inc. says it has acquired Royal Envelope, an envelope manufacturer and printer in Ontario and Quebec, for $27.4 million. Royal Envelope was founded in 1989 by Peter Bowles and Lou Tucci. The company had approximately $30 million of revenue during its most recent financial year mainly from the sale of envelopes and printing serv…
Air Canada has signed two agreements for airframe maintenance in Quebec, subject to its takeover of Transat AT. The airline and AAR have signed a letter of intent for a 10-year renewable agreement for airframe maintenance of both Air Canada’s and Air Transat’s fleet of Airbus A330 and A320 family of aircraft in Trois-Rivieres, Que. …
A U.S. judge ripped into Pacific Gas & Electric on Wednesday, saying its executives have put greed before safety and telling officials from the utility blamed for catastrophic California wildfires to plan to add at least 1,100 more tree trimmers to cut the risk of even more blazes. “I am going to do everything I can to protect this state …
Over 300 industry professionals took part in the CanWEA Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Summit in Mississauga recently. Attendees listened to over 40 speakers, who discussed a variety of topics, which focused on advancements in the wind energy space. “There are tremendous opportunities for future wind energy develo
A human-rights lawsuit against a Canadian mining company can be heard in British Columbia, even though it involves events in Africa, the Supreme Court of Canada says. The high court ruled Friday against B.C.-based Nevsun Resources, which had argued the claim should not proceed because a Canadian court could not decide the legality of acts b…
ASI Drives, the trusted provider of transaxles and wheel drives for electric machines, is pleased to announce that it has been acquired by the ACCEDIA Group, a privately owned holding company comprising medium-sized businesses. ASI is joining forces with Tornado Drives, based in Berlin, Germany, an ACCEDIA Group company.
Krohne new Optiwave 6500C a radar level transmitter for powders and dusty atmospheres. It offers continuous measurements in silos, hoppers, and containers. The radar offers an 80 GHz (FMCW) band width radar and a 70 millimetre lens antenna. Has a measuring range over 100 metres. Other features include
Nova Scotia’s Labour Department says a stop work order has been partially lifted at the Donkin coal mine in Cape Breton. Production was shut down Feb. 13 after a rockfall in an area of the mine that saw another roof collapse two weeks earlier. There were no injuries reported in either incident, which occurred at an intersection betwee…
Teck Resources says it’s baffled over the virtual disappearance of a rare fish from a lengthy stretch of a long-contaminated river downstream from the company’s coal-mining operations in southeastern British Columbia. A recent survey of cutthroat trout, a species of special concern, in the Fording River immediately downstream from the mine…
Federal regulators want to fine Boeing $19.68 million for installing sensors that the agency says might not have been compatible with a system pilots use to see instrument readings. The sensors make it possible for pilots to use “heads-up” systems that display altitude, airspeed and other information on a glass screen in front of them s…
