Research shows that coal milling technology by Techinomics reduces toxic emissions while plant data documents a significant increase in available power. [ + ]

Rockwell Automation on Tour will visit multiple locations in both metropolitan and regional centres around Australia delivering its free educational workshop series. [ + ]

Robotic technology from Oxford University that enables a car to ‘drive itself’ for stretches of a route has been shown driving a Nissan Leaf electric car. [ + ]

ABB is poised to start the new year with a bang following the order of 2400 robots by BMW Group. Over the next three years, the robots will be installed at factories in Regensburg and Leipzig, Germany, as well as in Tiexi, China. [ + ]

Engineers Australia has called on government to take action on recommendations made regarding innovation by Professor Ian Chubb, Australia’s Chief Scientist. [ + ]

For the second year in a row, Turck has been named as one of the top five in the discrete sensing category in the 2012 Automation World First Team Leaders in Automation annual survey. [ + ]

Fluke Corporation is voluntarily recalling certain digital clamp meters that were manufactured between 1 September 2010 and 1 October 2012, due to a manufacturing fault that may present a hazard to personnel. [ + ]

A suite of Honeywell solutions to optimise operations efficiency for a petrochemical plant expansion. [ + ]

Rotork has announced the acquisition of Fairchild Industrial Products Company, a manufacturer of high-precision pneumatic controls and power transmission products based in North Carolina, USA. [ + ]

Honeywell won the Gold Medal in Automation Service Products, Excellence in Lifecycle Service Brands and Excellent Case Study in Automation Services at the 2012 China Automation Service Products Summit. [ + ]

Advantech has announced its full support for Microsoft Windows 8. The company has added several powerful functions into this release, including Natural User Interface, cloud connectivity, Windows-to-Go and Secure Boot. [ + ]

Safety experts from around the world will speak at the Hazards Asia Pacific 2013 conference in Kuala Lumpur on 16-18 April, presented by the Institution of Chemical Engineers and the Chemical Industries Council of Malaysia. [ + ]

Rotork has acquired Fairchild Industrial Products Company, a manufacturer of high-precision pneumatic controls and power transmission products based in North Carolina. [ + ]

One of the world’s leading engineering, architecture and environmental consulting companies, GHD, has merged with Hill Michael, an Australian firm specialising in the development and operation of electricity supply systems. [ + ]

Rockwell Automation has extended its support of the global FIRST program to Australia and New Zealand, opening up new opportunities for school students aspiring to become engineers. [ + ]