Tag: innovations

November 7, 2022

Eight of the most innovative manufacturing start-ups from across the globe have been announced by Hexagon as the second cohort of the Sixth Sense open innovation platform. The selected start-ups were invited to pitch by Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division from […]

February 4, 2019

Elon Musk on Sunday tweeted videos and pictures revealing the first firing of the new Raptor rocket engine that will power SpaceX’s prototype Starship, the vehicle designed to carry humans on quick hops across the world and eventually to Mars. […]

August 24, 2018

The manufacturing industry is facing tremendous growth over the next decade with close to 3.5 million new jobs opening up. It sounds like great news, but a skills gap—the inability for companies to find talented, skilled workers—will result in an […]

August 6, 2018

TEWKSBURY, Mass., Aug. 6, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) announced the opening of a $72 million, 30,000 square foot facility on its Andover, Mass.-based campus, which is now home to some of the industry’s leading innovations in manufacturing. […]

March 20, 2018

The American clothing retailer, Gap Inc., has set a sustainable manufacturing target to save 10bn litres of water by the end of 2020. The firm aims to improve its fabric mills and laundries to be more innovative and efficient as […]

January 26, 2018

The Advanced Manufacturing Building, located on the campus of the University of Nottingham, is complete. The £30mn (US$42.7mn) facility will focus high-tech and innovative 3D printing and robotics research, as it targets manufacturing of the future. The site will become […]

January 29, 2016

A new type of ‘de-icing’ concrete has been created, uning a small electric current which generates enough heat to melt ice and snow from its surface. Chris Tuan, Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Nebraska, designed this product […]