After 11 months travelling across the world, the igus:bike tour is less than a month away from its UK debut. On 15 September, a nationwide journey celebrating sustainable engineering, customer collaboration, and the power of motion plastics begins.

At this year's Tech and Innovation Summit, SKF will introduce a broad range of new products and technologies designed to help industrial customers reduce downtime, improve reliability and performance, and make better use of data.

For 2025, a key attraction at MachineBuilding.Live is the expanded number of Action Areas where leading experts from across the machine building and factory automation spectrum will be providing live demonstrations of their latest technologies and innovations. The LG Motion Action Area will showcase a live precision pick-and-place demonstration in an industrial automation setting.

Ensuring only the right people are carrying out the right tasks is a crucial part of safeguarding machinery. But how can organisations effectively enforce and manage permissions for machine control or access? Join experts from Fortress Safety for a free webinar focused on "Access Control" and how to configure a Safeguarding Supportive System that authenticates personnel before granting access to machinery.

The excitement is building now for MachineBuilding.Live 2025 at the NAEC Stoneleigh Park on 15 October. The UK's only event staged exclusively for machine builders, systems integrators and OEMs, it showcases all the latest innovations and advances in machine building and industrial automation are showcased, with almost 200 exhibitors highlighting the advantages brought by thousands of the latest new products.

Interroll has announced the acquisition of Sortteq, a Netherlands-based startup founded and operated by two highly skilled entrepreneurs. Sortteq has developed a highly modular and innovative Chain-Belt Sorter (CBS) that complements and expands Interroll's existing Sorter platform.

ABB and its machine and factory automation business, B&R Industrial Automation, will exhibit brewery and beverage technologies together at drinktec 2025, the world economic summit for the beverage and liquid food industry, giving visitors a chance to see how ABB technologies combine to optimise operations across the full production cycle.

Routeco is returning to the Action Arena at MachineBuilding.Live with a demonstration cell based around a high speed Comau SCARA robot.

Based in Dorset, Electro Mechanical Systems (EMS) is a supplier of small DC motors and linear actuators. Equipped with the latest CNC machine tools and a dedicated gear cutting suite, EMS manufactures bespoke actuation systems for a range of industries. In order to boost output and keep production running after working hours, EMS has deployed a Universal Robots collaborative robot (cobot) from UK-based automation distributor RARUK Automation.

Camozzi Automation is delighted to announce a new strategic partnership with RS Components, one of the world's leading distributors of industrial and electronic products.