Aquisition expands Forterra’s portfolio of site infrastructure and water management products and solutions.

A transcript of the WaterWorld weekly newscast for April 18, 2016.

Neptune Benson’s 110 employees are now an important part of Evoqua.

Center for Sustainable Shale Development certifies EQT Corporation’s Appalachian Operations for completion of air & water evaluation and verification process.

The speculation du jour is, of course, over Intel’s rumoured job cuts. Why? And where will they fall? The speculation is all over the map. The most likely reason why is that the Q1 results being announced tomorrow are shitty and the job cuts are a way of diminishing the consequent fall in the share …

Intel Speculation

Plessey has been awarded the Manufacturing Business Award 2016 for large businesses by the Plymouth Herald. The awards, now in their sixth year, were presented at a gala dinner at the Plymouth Pavilions. Paul Burton, Editor of the Herald, said; “If the success of the businesses shortlisted is anything to go by, the Plymouth’s future …

Plessey wins Manufacturer of the Year award

Thanks to our technology editor, and keen cyclist, Steve Buish for flagging this one – a project to build a bike power meter. Basically the idea is to prototype a low-cost affordable fitness power meter for cyclists (using “an ESP8266 WiFi module, 4 strain gauges in Wheatsone arrangement measured by HX711 24-bit instrumentation amplifier”). It …

How to build your own bike power meter

The number of 300mm wafer fabrication facilities in operation continues to grow and is expected to reach 100 this year, reports IC Insights. At the end of 2015, there were 95 production-class IC fabs utilizing 300mm wafers (there are numerous R&D IC fabs and a few high-volume fabs that make “non-IC” products such as CMOS …

Number of 300mm fabs to top 100

VersaSense, the industrial wireless sensor module supplier from Belgium, has developed a networking system based on Linear Technology’s SmartMesh IP embedded networking platform. Called MicroPnP, the low power wireless network will identify sensors and actuators using the SmartMesh protocol. The low power wireless technology is designed for very long “decade battery lifetime”, with real time …

MicroPnP IoT sensor network runs for decades on single battery

Find out how NI FlexPod retrieved and reconstructed real-time images from space

Read full article: NI enables Live HD streaming from space