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24/12/2025 Intertek Moody achieves ISO/IEC 17020 accreditation recognising global inspection excellence
Intertek, a leading total quality assurance provider to industries worldwide, has announced that its Intertek Moody division has achieved global ISO/IEC 17020 accreditation across multiple international offices, highlighting the company’s commitment to global quality, consistency and technical expertise across its inspection operations.
23/12/2025 Festo’s AI cuts downtime by predicting pneumatic wear
Festo has launched its artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled monitoring and predictive maintenance technology, Festo AX Motion Insights Pneumatic.

22/12/2025 Appeal from BINDT’s Composites Group
Do you work in the composites industry and/or specialise in non-destructive testing (NDT) of composites?

19/12/2025 Oil & gas industry to account for a notable share in the oil condition monitoring market
The oil & gas sector is poised to account for a notable share of the oil condition monitoring market by 2030, driven by the need to maintain high equipment reliability and prevent costly operational disruptions.
18/12/2025 Blackmon Power fast-tracks asset monitoring with FLIR i65 and Condoit app
By combining FLIR’s new i65 thermal imaging camera with the Condoit electrical data platform, Blackmon Power, a testing company based in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, has overhauled its asset monitoring and reporting process, cutting turnaround times from 8-12 hours to less than five minutes.

17/12/2025 Atlas Copco launches vibration analysis service
Atlas Copco has introduced a vibration analysis service for industrial air compressors, enabling UK manufacturers who rely on compressed air to detect hidden mechanical issues before they lead to unplanned downtime, excessive energy consumption or expensive repairs.
16/12/2025 Argyll Ruane supports first UK-China Corrosion Summit
Argyll Ruane recently supported the first UK-China Corrosion Summit, held 3 to 4 September 2025 in Manchester, UK, as Exclusive Platinum Sponsor.

15/12/2025 Tronics’ vibration sensor solutions
TDK Corporation has announced that its subsidiary, Tronics Microsystems, a leading provider of high-performance microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) inertial sensor solutions, is expanding its product portfolio to include vibration sensor solutions aimed at process and asset monitoring applications.
12/12/2025 Non-contact charge carrier density mapping of SiC semiconductors
As semiconductor devices become smaller, faster and more powerful, accurate knowledge of material properties such as charge carrier concentration and mobility becomes critical.
11/12/2025 FLIR iXX-Series combines thermal camera with app-enabled functionality to transform asset condition monitoring tasks
FLIR, a Teledyne Technologies company, has introduced the iXX-Series of next-generation app-enabled thermal cameras with the aim of transforming inspection tasks across a multitude of asset condition monitoring (CM), building inspection and other applications.

10/12/2025 Altrad wins major place on Sellafield framework contract
Altrad will join forces with supply chain partners across three key areas of a new Sellafield Ltd framework, which in total is worth up to £4.6 billion.
09/12/2025 Joint project launched to optimise offshore wind turbine foundations
The German Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) has launched the OptiMP joint project together with renowned partners from industry and research.

08/12/2025 GEA launches InsightPartner EvoHDry
GEA has launched InsightPartner EvoHDry, which is engineered for complex industrial environments, where uninterrupted operation is essential for producing items such as infant formula, cream, evaporated milk, condensed milk and cheese.
05/12/2025 Oceaneering expands Vision platform with subsea module for engineering-grade integrity visualisation
Oceaneering International Inc has announced Vision Subsea, a new module within the cloud-based Vision 3D data visualisation software platform developed by GDi, an Oceaneering company.
04/12/2025 High-precision process monitoring and error detection in additive manufacturing
Powder bed-based laser melting of metals (PBF-LB/M) is a key technology in additive manufacturing that makes it possible to produce highly complex and high-performance metal components with customised material and functional properties.
03/12/2025 Indeximate demonstrates new cable health monitoring techniques
Indeximate, a leading provider of fibre sensing-based cable health monitoring to the offshore wind energy industry, has announced that it has demonstrated its cable health monitoring to RWE, the offshore wind farm operator.

02/12/2025 Applus+ and Fuvex test long-range drone technology for power infrastructure monitoring
Applus+ has successfully completed a pilot project together with Fuvex, a Spanish drone technology start-up, for a leading client in the Spanish electricity sector.

01/12/2025 Babcock and Plastometrex partner to strengthen MOD supply chain resilience
Babcock International Group (Babcock), a defence company, and Plastometrex are supporting Project TAMPA, the flagship initiative of the Ministry of Defence (MOD), to accelerate the adoption of additive manufacturing (AM) in the defence supply chain.