Contrinex has once again raised the bar with its M5 photoelectric sensors. These diffuse-sensing units, featuring a robust sapphire lens, underwent a significant performance upgrade in 2024 and have now been further upgraded to offer IO-Link connectivity, further cementing their position in high-performance automation.

The Geared Bearing from Nexen Group is designed and built to use Nexen's Roller Pinion technology, allowing integrators and machine builders to achieve zero backlash, repeatability, and industry-leading accuracy for the most demanding applications.

ABB has expanded its IE5 SynRM motor portfolio with three smaller frame sizes (90, 100, 112), now covering 0.75 kW to 450 kW. This gives customers the broadest range of magnet- and rare earth-free motors to boost efficiency, reliability, and sustainability across even more applications.

Delta announces the launch of new Motion Controllers CPUs, Input/Output modules, and Couplers for its AX-5 Series. Designed for machine builders, system integrators, and distributors across sectors such as packaging, assembly, woodworking, and metalworking, these enhancements deliver greater flexibility, performance, and scalability - empowering customers to stay competitive in the fast-evolving IIoT era.

MachineBuilding.Live, organised by The Engineering Network (TEN), has entered into a strategic partnership with the Calderdale and Kirklees Manufacturing Alliance (CKMA), strengthening ties between regional manufacturers and the UK's wider engineering community.

KSS metal bellows couplings from Jakob Antriebstechnik feature a twin-wave bellows with a straight intermediate piece offers high flexibility. Thanks to tapered bushings as the shaft-hub connection, assembly is quick and secure, even with small shaft diameters and without the need for an additional key.

Help celebrate Matara UK's 30th anniversary at this year's MachineBuilding.Live. For 30 years, Matara has been both a manufacturer and supplier of pneumatic and linear automation products to a wide range of industries, including automotive, aerospace, food production and pharmaceuticals. During that time, the company has developed a reputation for excellent service and delivery, backed up with technical expertise.

Trio Motion Technology is presenting its new Motion-PLC controller range at the PPMA Total Show, Hall 5, Stand F114, at Birmingham's NEC, 23-25 September. Motion-PLC provides advanced motion control performance with the functionality and simplicity of a PLC, reducing machine development time for stand-alone machines.

Tsubaki will return to the PPMA Show this year, exhibiting its latest chain innovations for the packaging industry. Taking place 23-25 September 2025 at the NEC, Birmingham, the show will see Tsubaki reveal its newly developed film gripper cam sprockets at stand C44.

IMI has partnered with Design and Automation Solutions (DAS), a leading OEM specialising in machinery design and factory automation, to deliver a cutting-edge metal cropping machine to Batten and Allen, a provider of precision metal stamping services for a wide range of industrial applications.