The Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index (PMI) is produced by the Ai Group in association with PricewaterhouseCoopers and has shown that manufacturing output remains strong and steady.

Environmental Group Ltd (EGL) has been commissioned to remove and destroy the nitrous oxide (NOx) emissions from Orica Ltd Gladstone ammonium nitrate plant in a deal worth around $1 million.

Rockwell Automation has expanded its global manufacturing solutions business into Central Europe with the acquisition of the engineering services and system integration assets of Czech company, SPEL, spol. sro.

National Instruments customers visiting the company's 'Request Support' page can now can initiate a support request from an applications engineer in one of 12 languages.

BASF is to increase the capacity of its polymer dispersion plant located in Cengkareng, Indonesia, from the current annual 50,000 metric tons to 95,000 metric tons.

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research and their American collaborators have combined the advantageous properties of classical polymers with those of crystals by synthesising clusters of fluorine-containing dendritic polymers.

After a strong first quarter, the United States manufacturing sector has softened significantly, according to the US-based Institute for Supply Management (ISM).

Three of the leading global automation and machine safety companies, Rockwell Automation, Omron, and Sick AG, are collaborating on the development of an open protocol for safety communications.

The EMA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) market for automation products and services for discrete Industries is expected to grow at a Compounded Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 6.6 per cent over the next five years.

J.D. Edwards recently announced it will standardise its collaborative business applications, known as J.D. Edwards 5, on infrastructure technology or "middleware".

ERP vendor SSA is targeting the small to medium enterprise industrial markets, in a move it says is designed to allow SME's to "computerise and stay in business".

The EMA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) market for automation products and services for discrete Industries is expected to grow at a Compounded Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 6.6 per cent over the next five years.

Bowater has successfully started up ABB Industrial IT Quality Control solutions for off-machine coater No. 1 at its Covington, TN mill.

Leading Australian water industry company Optimatics is responding to US water authorities call for help to "terrorist proof" their facilities.

A simple box device containing a series of cotton filters could play a large role in improving global air quality as well as being a huge success for the small engineering business behind it.