Manufacturing Technologies

Sales of vinyl records have been on the rise over the last few years, but how they're made hasn't changed much in more than 50 years. The UK's elasticStage is looking to shake up vinyl record production with a new manufacturing and distribution model.

The world produces more than 1.8 billion tons of steel a year, releasing nearly twice that weight in carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. It's a huge decarbonization challenge, but steel giant ArcelorMittal is starting on a new green plant in Spain.

Metal fatigue is a huge problem when it comes to building and maintaining everything from aircraft to wind turbines. An Australian system is redefining how to pinpoint structural stress using a compact alternative to traditional mechanical strain gauges.

The steel industry is responsible for around 8 percent of all global carbon emissions annually, and decarbonizing it will require an enormous effort. H2GS plans to lead the way with the world's largest fossil-free steel plant, using green hydrogen.

Wombats are the only animal in the world known to produce cubic poo. It's, quite literally, akin to squeezing a square peg through a round hole, and now researchers have for the first time replicated the intestinal process that achieves this feat.

The Meltio Engine giveth, and it taketh away. It's a production-grade manufacturing system that attaches to any CNC machine or robot arm, and it allows you to add metal through laser deposition, and then shape and refine it through CNC in one step.