TÜV Product Service has acquired the Cleveland and Yorkshire-based machinery safety compliance firm, Laidler group.
Machine Safety/Protection
A tyre shredder used at one of the UK's largest tyre recycling centres, capable of recycling five million tyres per year into soft surfaces, has been remanufactured with help from Eriks' UK engineers....
Drives
Five companies were together fined a total of nearly £10 million last month (16 July) for their part in the Buncefield oil depot disaster on 11 December 2005 – a figure that was immediately described...
Disaster
Draeger Safety UK has won an award for process innovation as part of the 2010 Manufacturing Excellence Awards.
Personal Protective Equipment
Air blowers using internal compression, instead of conventional external compression, set a new standard for energy efficiency in low-pressure industry.
Blowers
CON-E-CO (Concrete Equipment Company) in the US is the first OEM to standardise on the new Baldor-Dodge Motorised Torque-Arm II shaft-mounted speed reducer – receiving the first units straight off the...
Gearboxes
Technip Samsung Consortium has appointed Emerson Process Management as main automation contractor for the Shell Prelude project, which will be the world's first floating LNG (liquefied natural gas)...
Oil & Gas
Thermoplastic manufacturer Victrex says it is now more energy efficient and achieving optimum combustion, thanks to the installation of energy conversion and management plant from Dalkia.
Steam Generation/Equipment
Vacuum equipment manufacturer Edwards has received six major orders for industrial coating systems in Taiwan and China in the last six months, worth a total of more than £3.5 million.
Vacuum Pumps/Pipes
Two of NOV Mono's recently introduced EZstrip progressing cavity pumps have been installed at United Utilities Fairbourne wastewater treatment works in Wales to improve process efficiency.
Pumps
Two leading figures from the HSE (Health and Safety Executive) have been awarded engineering fellowship for their work in industry.
ATEX
Clearer rules and cleaner air are among the aims of the Industrial Emissions Directive, approved by the European Parliament last week.
Pollution Control