Essentra PLC has become one of the first companies of its kind in the FTSE250 to publish a Climate Transition Plan since new rules were published on how listed companies had to report in accordance with the Transition Plan Taskforce.

Precision performance servo gearbox specialist Apex Dynamics is on hand at Automation UK 2024 to demonstrate the wide range of applications for its products and promote its industry-leading service.

This year has seen NORD again assessed by the rating agency EcoVadis. The drive specialist achieved 68 out of 100 points and was awarded the silver sustainability certificate. The company improved compared to previous years and is well above the industry average.

Recently launched by motion control specialist Applied Motion Products (AMP) and available from Mclennan, the new MDX+ series servo drives combine a high torque-density and low rotor-inertia brushless motor, absolute encoder, drive stage and motion controller in a single integrated, 24-60V DC-powered package.

Organised by Kent-based The Engineering Network (TEN), MachineBuilding.Live has been expanded to accommodate almost 160 exhibitors this year when the event opens on 2nd October. There has been a near 50% jump in the number of exhibitors compared to the inaugural event last year.

Mouser Electronics is now shipping the R130C discrete IO-Link hub from Banner Engineering. The R130C IO-Link hub is a compact, top-exit IO-Link hub that allows connections for up to 16 non-IO-Link devices into an IO-Link system for industrial automation, sensor networks, supervisory control, data acquisition and IoT applications.

Euchner will attend Drives and Controls 2024 at the NEC, Birmingham, from June 5-6, demonstrating how the company's products can improve safety in various industrial machinery applications and showing visitors the benefits of bringing safety devices into their fieldbus network.

The gear and drive solutions engineered by Nabtesco, the world's largest manufacturer of precision cycloidal gears, deliver exceedingly high power density paired with maximum reliability in an exceptionally compact design, making them ideal for use in demanding automation tasks.

Brusatori Electric Motors (part of the KEB Group) has introduced a new mechanical mounting system for safe encoders for its DL4 series of servomotors that meets the requirements with safety functionalities and can assume Functional Safety functions together with the approved drive system. The functionalities then depend on the encoder type used.