The National Trust has completed commissioning of Britain's largest ever marine source heat pump – at Plas Newydd, the Trust's 300-year-old mansion on the North Wales coast.
Heat Pumps
Tata Steel's Port Talbot steelworks is reporting energy savings of more than 7,400 MWh a year, following installation of 62 ABB VSDs (variable speed drives).
Variable Speed Drives
BP ha revealed that it is using 'smart' wireless technology at its Geel, Belgium, chemical plant as part of a continuous leak detection system to improve safety surveillance on storage tanks, valves...
Instrumentation
Power transmissions specialist Brevini says users can expect to see improvements in aftermarket services following recent significant investments.
Gearboxes
GAMBICA – the trade association for instrumentation, control, automation and laboratory technology industry – is warning of a "major industrial wireless failure" unless the new EN62657-2 industrial...
Wireless
Cherry Valley Farms, one of the UK's largest producers of duck products, now expects to save £30,000 a year from its freezing costs, following the installation of ABB variable-speed drives on its...
Variable Speed Drives
Spirax Sarco and Dallol Energy have delivered the boiler controls and steam system for a wet biomass system designed to deliver steam to a distillery and to heat 200 neighbouring Scottish homes via...
Steam Generation/Equipment
Rubber playground surfaces manufacturer Createscape has been fined £3,500 with £761 costs, after a worker's arm was pulled into an unguarded conveyor belt and crushed at its factory near Goole.
Machine Safety/Protection
Drayson Wireless, headed by Lord Drayson, says it is now working with Imperial Innovations and Imperial College to bring "groundbreaking wireless energy transfer technology" to market.
Green Technology
Blane Judd, the former group chief executive of the Building & Engineering Services Association, has been appointed CEO for EngTechNow, launched by prime minister David Cameron in June 2013.
Apprenticeships
Adhesives manufacturer Beardow Adams has expanded its Babcock Wanson thermal fluid heaters plant with a seventh unit at its site in Milton Keynes – now Europe's largest single hot melt adhesive site.
Heating Systems
UKCSF (UK Chemicals Stakeholder Forum) has published new advice on the EU's REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals) regulations.
COSHH