ReFood UK is recovering more than 10MWh a day of energy and saving over £80,000 a year at its new anaerobic digester (AD) facility near Doncaster, thanks to heat recovery systems from Spirax Sarco.
Steam Generation/Equipment
Statoil has awarded Emerson Process Management a $33 million contract to upgrade safety and automation systems on the Visund oil platform, in the Norwegian North Sea.
Emergency Shutdown Systems
Specialist centrifugal pumps manufacturer Amarinth has delivered four API 610 OH2 pumps with Plan 53B seal support systems to ProSep, in Malaysia, on a tight 26 week deadline.
Petrochemical
Jaguar Land Rover is reporting downtime reduced by 66% on one of its factory robots, thanks to equipment from energy chain specialist igus UK.
Robots
Global plant manufacturer Atlas Copco, known primarily for its industrial air compressors, celebrated its 140th anniversary last Friday (22 February 2013).
Compressors
The HSE (Health and Safety Executive) has published draft guidance to help employers get to grips with proposed changes to workplace first aid, due to take effect on 1 October 2013.
Health & Safety at Work Act
A carbon infra-red oven from Heraeus Noblelight has helped Stoelzle Flaconnage to achieve faster curing of organic paint sprayed onto to decorative perfume bottles.
Heating Systems
Elland Steel Structures has been fined £8,000 plus £20,000 costs for serious safety failings, after a worker was left with life-threatening injuries when a 6.5 tonne steel beam fell onto his back.
Manual Handling
Maintenance engineers at the Odense waste water treatment plant in Southern Denmark have selectged eight Mono EZstrip cake pumps and 16 Nov Mono Compact C Range progressing cavity pumps for a new...
Pumps
In a blaze of publicity this week (12 February 2013), Siemens Industry launched its latest PLC, the Simatic S7-1500, as a next generation controller family for medium to high-end machine and plant...
PLCs
Northern Ireland based Tobermore, which manufactures concrete paving blocks and slabs, has installed 204 Suntech monocrystalline solar panels and now expects to generate electricity equivalent to its...
Carbon Footprint
New owners of the Flir T640 and T620 thermal cameras can now transmit images and radiometric data to their mobile devices wirelessly, using a freely downloadable app from the iPad app store.
Thermography (infrared cameras)