CEVA Logistics has been fined £10,000 with £1,491 costs after two Margate employees were left badly injured when they were knocked nearly five metres to the ground.
Health & Safety at Work Act
Atlantic Plastics is reporting 20% savings on energy costs on one of its large injection moulding machines, following installation of an ABB variable-speed drive.
Electric Motors AC
LEEA (Lifting Equipment Engineers Association) has issued its 2,000th internationally recognised TEAM card for overhead lifting equipment engineers.
Manual Handling
British environmental technologies specialist Advetec says it has achieved an industrial scale bio-thermic digester capable of eliminating the practice of organic waste (solid and liquid) going to...
Pollution Control
Retread tyre specialist Vacu-Lug has installed a second coil type Babcock Wanson steam generator, complete with flue gas economiser, for its curing process.
Steam Generation/Equipment
Combined losses from the 100 largest accidents in the hydrocarbon industry are now estimated at more than $34 billion, according to insurer Marsh.
Fire Protection
Lifting equipment giant Konecranes is reporting an ongoing rise in the numbers of crane modernisation programmes across a growing number of industry sectors.
Lifting Equipment
Although computerised maintenance management systems can deliver a significant boost to maintenance efficiency and beyond, that's not always the case. Brian Tinham looks at what goes wrong and how to...
Maintenance Management Systems
Instrumentation continues to evolve, offering better ways to monitor and control plant operations – and hence improve product quality and yield.
Instrumentation
Plant managers are being warned to watch for counterfeit cranes following Terex's discovery of its cranes being built and sold by counterfeiters.
CranesEDF Energy, one of the UK's largest energy companies and its largest producer of low-carbon electricity, ha joined EEMUA (the Engineering Equipment and Materials users Assocation).
Power Plant
The Society of Operations Engineers (SOE) has launched a scheme, which, it says, can help engineering companies demonstrate competence and deliver professional development.
Continuing Professional Development