AstraZeneca, BAE Systems, Shell and Siemens are leading sponsorship of this year's Big Bang young scientists' and engineers' fair, to be held in Manchester from 11 to 13 March.
Continuing Professional Development
JCB has donated diggers worth $150,000 to help the disaster relief effort in Haiti, following the devastating earthquake, believed to have killed hundreds of thousands of people.
Cranes
Jaguar in the West Midlands reckons it has reduced air power consumption across its sites by 26% and achieved a two-year payback, following energy audits by CompAir.
Compressors
Northern Foods, one of the UK's largest food producers, was kept running during the worst of the recent snow, thanks to a rapid repair on an obsolete sealed motor gearbox at its Gunstones bakery in...
Motors
Mechanical booster pumps, which are to replace steam ejectors on the chemical vapour infiltration process for a European high temperature materials manufacturer, will lead to cost savings.
Vacuum Pumps/Pipes
McCain's potato specialities production site at Wombourne has been successfully updated, with new washing and de-stoning equipment, and remaining plant moved and reinstalled.
PLCs
Engineers at the Thorp nuclear reprocessing plant say they chose Worcester F911 top-entry cartridge valves for a medium active salt-free
evaporator (MASFE) installation, because of their compact...
Crown Oil UK says its new red diesel for the construction, utility, plant and rail industries is now 100% carbon offset.
Biofuel
Scottish Water says it has improved reliability on three large sludge pumps at its Laighpark waste water treatment plant since replacing ageing dc pump drive motors with high efficiency ac motors and...
Water Treatment
Manchester Airport's plant engineers say that accuracy is now flying on their critical API hydrocarbon separation unit, since installing Pulsar Duet ultrasonic open channel flow sensor-based...
Flow MeasurementSevern Trent Water reports savings of up to œ2,400 a week on pump maintenance, since upgrading its control software - and for zero cost.
Condition Monitoring
An energy saving drive that not only controls up to four pumps, but is also said to extend operating life, while providing diagnostics, constant line pressure and equalised pump operation time, is new...
Pumps