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Manufacturers can design new products faster than ever, but scaling production reliably remains the real challenge. Finish Thompson executives Matt Walker and Dennis Barnard outline what separates companies that scale well: smart workforce planning, data-driven capacity decisions, disciplined shop-floor execution, and vertical integration — all built on cross-functional alignment and early preparation.

New Brunswick Power signed a contract with ANDRITZ, moving to the next phase of planning for the modernization of the six turbine-generator units with a total capacity of 666 MW at the Mactaquac hydropower plant in New Brunswick, Canada.

Measuring wet, CO₂-rich biogas reliably in a DN300 pipe: for Fangel Bioenergy in Denmark, KROHNE’s OPTISONIC 7300 Biogas delivers pressure-loss-free ultrasonic flow measurement, with adapted titanium transducers, integrated pressure/temperature compensation, and methane content calculation, even under heavy condensate formation.

To meet Ireland’s growing gas utilisation levels, Armstrong Industrial: Gas (a division of Armstrong Fluid Technology) has supplied another two of its 3 MW boiler houses at a main gas interconnector site.

As the world faces an escalating water crisis, the industry can no longer afford fragmented infrastructure, Duncan Leathley, area sales director for water utility at Grundfos UK&I, explores why an integrated approach that marries high-efficiency hardware with AI-driven intelligence, is the blueprint for building a resilient global water future.

The UK water sector’s AMP8 programme will invest more than £100 billion in infrastructure over five years. In this guest comment, BPMA Technical Officer Gary Wilde argues that success will depend on more than capital alone — whole-life procurement, resilient supply chains and investment in skills and technology.

Emerson recently launched the TESCOMTM RC-X motorized injection rate control valve, which supports accurate, repeatable dosing of offshore chemicals to maintain flow assurance for refineries and reduce overall chemical injection costs.

Valmet has appointed Max Luedtke as Executive Vice President, Pulp, Energy and Circularity business area and a member of Valmet’s Executive Leadership Team. He will start in his position on September 1, 2026, and will be based in Tikkurila, Vantaa, Finland.

In vacuum technology, precision and reliability are critical. Whatever the application, vacuum equipment must always provide the same level of performance in order to produce consistent results. Non-genuine components may look the same as genuine parts, but their inconsistent quality can reduce efficiency, compromise reliability, and increase total cost-of-ownership. This article explains how genuine spare parts and oil preserve vacuum pump efficiency, reliability and performance, and outlines the risks of substandard substitutes.

NETZSCH Pumps USA, a provider of complex fluid handling solutions, announces that James Brown has joined NETZSCH as LACT Pipeline Territory Sales Manager.