Rockwell Automation has announced plans to collaborate with Fork Farms, a Green Bay-based agriculture technology startup company, to build a highly automated, indoor 7,300-square-foot hydroponic vertical farm within Rockwell’s Milwaukee headquarters by summer of 2024. Hydroponic farming is a technique used to grow plants without soil. Instead of planting crops in the ground, hydroponic farmers use containers filled with nutrient-rich water without the need for large plots of land. Once fully operational, Clock Tower Farms, named in recognition of the iconic Allen-Bradley four-sided clock atop the company’s headquarters, will be…
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Innovation Creates 100% Recyclable Packaging
Together, Rockwell Automation and Pagès Group are accelerating the shift from plastic packaging to more sustainable materials. The video above explains how it’s done. Pagès Group, a gold-level member of Rockwell’s PartnerNetwork™, provides automaton solutions for the packaging industry. The France-based company is an industry innovator known for pioneering In-Mold Labeling technology, an injection-mold process used for plastic packaging. With an increase in sustainability requirements and consumer demand, Pagès customers wanted more sustainable packaging. New packaging materials require new solutions to accommodate high-volume line speeds, varying package sizes, and label…
Read MoreNew Paper Mill Sets Standard for Sustainability and Net-Zero Water Use
Rockwell Automation helped Green Bay Packaging open the first new papermill in Wisconsin in more than 35 years, providing power and process solutions that increase production capacity, improve reliability, and meet sustainability goals. Rockwell’s digital technology connects islands of automation that generates real-time data for better decision-making at the mill and across the enterprise. When paired with larger paper-making machines and upskilling of current employees, the new drive and controller technologies help the new plant more than double the output of the previous plant. The data also enables predictive maintenance,…
Read MoreRockwell Automation to Support The Royal Mint’s Precious Metal Recovery Facility
Rockwell Automation is working with The Royal Mint to design, build, and commission a facility to safely recover valuable metals from electronic products. When fully operational in 2023, The Royal Mint’s facility in South Wales is expected to process up to 90 tons of UK-sourced circuit boards per week. Waste from electrical equipment and electronics, known as e-waste, is one of the fastest growing waste streams in the UK and the world, with less than 20% currently recycled worldwide. More than 95 tons of precious metals including gold, silver and…
Read MoreRockwell Automation and University of Melbourne Partner on Decarbonization Projects
The University of Melbourne and Rockwell Automation have begun a new partnership to collaborate on research activities, jointly develop training and work together to use digital innovation to help manufacturing and resources industries reach their decarbonisation goals. According to the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by both organizations on July 27, Rockwell will contribute engineering resources and product training and the University of Melbourne will bring its academic and research expertise, and world class innovation infrastructure. “Decarbonisation is now front of mind for Australian industrial companies,” said Anthony Wong, regional…
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