• • • CONTENTS • • • February 2023


News 6 Electrical apprenticeships offer best career opportunities


8 Hudson Group strikes new partnership withWibe


Events 13 Manufacturing & Engineering Week 2023 – the Glastonbury of the industry sector


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Comment 14 Global robot report highlight’s UK’s urgent need to increase automation


Editor’s Interview 16 Simon King speaks to Oliver Hinley, operations director of Niglon


Data Centre


World Preview 24 Attention to detail


25 Atkore Unistrut’s Aisle Containment System


28 Schneider Electrics brings the data centres of the future to life


30 The liquid future of data centre cooling


31 Sustainable, scalable solutions from Subzero Engineering


Batteries & Chargers 32 The Future is Swappable


Electric Vehicles 36 Charge up your EV business


38 What’s still holding back EV sales?


40 Meeting the challenges of installing and testing electric vehicle charging stations


42 EVSE 3.0: A network of networks


43 Protect cabling for the EV charging network


44 LEM helps North American e- mobilitymarket expand with UL-certified DC meter for rapid chargers


Energy Efficiency 45 Making the energy system smart


Electrical Equipment 46 Technology innovation in electromagnetic interference is being shaped by three global mega-trends


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