Kerry Ingredients & Flavours' Tenbury Wells plant is reporting success with a MasoSine SPS 2.5 sine pump handling viscosity and flow challenges with condensed milk in toffees sauce production.
Pumps
Reduced vibration and maintenance requirements are being claimed by ABB for its new IEC frame size 900 8MW, high-voltage flameproof motor, which is aimed at the chemical, oil and gas industries.
Electric Motors DC
Synchronous motors offer the potential for significant energy savings in high power, heavy load applications. Brian Tinham talks to Marek Lukaszczyk, of Weg, about the pros and cons
Electric Motors AC
Water and waste treatment plants are among the oldest around anywhere, but don't imagine they're bereft of developments. Brian Tinham reports
Flow Measurement
Following a flurry of news reporting the apparent achievement of practical fuel from air plant, Brian Tinham talks to the developers about the present and the future
Energy Recovery
It's both a strength and a weakness that boilers generally operate for years without problems. On the one hand, plant managers are happy, but on the other, no one knows how much better they could be...
Steam Generation/Equipment
Electric motors specialist Weg has launched a range of "breakthrough" motors that it claims provide ultra- high energy efficiency.
Electric Motors AC
Regal is supplying seven enormous motors for a new wastewater pumping station being built in Alexandria, Egypt's second largest city.
Electric Motors AC
Cranfield University's new £2 million energy laboratory was opened on Tuesday 27 November (2012) by Jonathan Holyoak, head of policy for the Office of Carbon Capture and Storage.
Recycling
The first Skills Show, held at the NEC in Birmingham from 15—17 November 2012, saw more than 70,000 visitors, according to figures released by the show's organiser, just released.
Apprenticeships
Kentish engineering firm BMM Weston has been fined £2,400 with £1985 costs, after one of its factory workers suffered severe injuries while operating an unguarded circular saw on a broken machine.
Machine Safety/Protection
Wallop Defence Systems (WDS) has been ordered to pay £376,000 in fines and costs for safety failings that caused a fatal explosion at its Hampshire factory.
Health and Safety