RS Components has enhanced their website to improve their customers’ online purchasing experience. With an aim to make it more user-friendly, the changes made include a predictive search, improved filtering, increased technical content and better basket management. These changes were based on customer insight and feedback.

Tianjin, China, has caught the world’s attention with its recent happenings and not in a good way. In the past few days, the coastal city that has long served as an important port for the country and shipping and logistics hub has had two terrifying explosions that destroyed buildings, vehicles and infrastructure within a two mile radius, and robbed the lives of at least 50 people with another 500 injured.

ON Semiconductor Corporation has announced a new addition to their Board of Directors, Alan Campbell. He brings with him more than 30 years of global industry experience under his belt to the Board.

Hexagon Metrology has announced the opening of their two new US solution centres, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Wilmington, Delaware. These include a training centre and a technology showroom for customer demonstrations, industry seminars and more for related professionals.

German machine tool orders for the second quarter of 2015 were up 10 percent from the same period in 2014, with domestic orders up three percent and foreign orders up 14 percent. This increase effectively balanced out the half-year balance sheet for 2015 as orders for the first quarter had been stagnated and were down from the same period of the previous year.

ABB has a newly appointed head of business media relations, Michael Scheindorfer, effective 1 August 2015. With his team, they will focus on financial and business topics, and report to Christoph Sieder, the head of the company’s corporate communications.

With the increasing economic cooperation between the two countries, Indonesian President Joko Widodo expressed his hopes of China building Indonesia into an Asian production base at a recent meeting with visiting Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Yu Zhengsheng.

The representative body for the Philippines electronics industry, the Semiconductor and Electronic Industries of the Philippines (SEIPI) has announced that it has lowered its forecast export revenues for the year from the original five to seven percent, to three to five percent. This was due to the dampening global demand.

Stratasys Limited has announced that China partner Kangshuo Group Company Limited is opening a 3D printing service bureau network dedicated to serving China’s domestic market with up to 1,000 high precision 3D printers from the company’s Solidscape Incorporate subsidiary. The 80,000 sq ft multi-storey facility in Foshan City, Guangdong, China, represents the first phase of a multi-year agreement to build and equip four service bureaus.

Wenzel Metromec AG has received the Gold Partner status from Microsoft in Application Development. This status documents professionalism, expertise, and the role of the company as a provider of software products for 3D measurement technology.