Wire and strip manufacturer Webster & Horsfall is reporting one third energy cost savings since converting from existing inefficient steam boiler to thermal fluid heating.
Heating Systems
Heinz reckons it is saving 6% of its average steam load per year at its baked bean factory in Wigan by recovering energy from effluent.
Steam Generation/Equipment
Runcorn, Cheshire-based plastics manufacturer Alma Products reckons it is saving £80,000 worth of electricity per annum since installing ABB ac motors and low voltage ac drives.
Electric Motors AC
Severn Trent Water's sewage treatment works in Newthorpe, Nottinghamshire reports improved pumping efficiency since installing a Chroma progressing cavity pump.
Pumps
Shower tray firm Just Trays says that lease purchasing its upgraded compressed air plant from Boge has made new essential equipment affordable.
Compressors
There's more to cutting lighting energy costs and carbon emissions than the luminary technologies themselves. Brian Tinham reports
Lighting
Plant rental firm Speedy has launched a sustainability strategy under which its suppliers are being warned to prove their environmental credentials or risk losing out.
Social Responsibility
Workplace regulations may not be facing radical change, but their implementation and policing certainly are. Brian Tinham reports on the price of the cuts
Occupational Health
A hand held intrinsically safe ultrasonic tester, from CorDEX, has been designed to measure metal thicknesses on pipelines and fixed equipment in hazardous locations.
Proximity Sensing
A worker who sustained horrific injuries, but lived, having been dragged through a gap no wider than a CD case on a poorly guarded machine, has become a symbol for getting guarding right.
Machine Safety/Protection
An incident in which an ex-serviceman had his right forearm severed by a baling machine, while working at the Transwaste Recycling plant in 2009, has refocused attention on the Importance of machine...
Machine Safety/Protection
The Spanish consortium building the Tlemcem-Honaine desalination plant near Oran, in Algeria, is expecting significant efficiencies as a result of using inverter drives and soft starters.
Variable Speed Drives