Electric motors and drives specialist WEG says its new CFW11W water-cooled drive offers up to 40% higher power in a more compact footprint than conventional air-cooled inverters.
Variable Speed Drives
Pura Foods is reporting success with the installation of six variable speed pumps from high-spec centrifugal pumps specialist Amarinth for a challenging project.
Pumps
Swiss food processing equipment manufacturer Bühler is reporting that Renold Gears designed a bespoke gearbox for it in record time – and with just three online meetings with its engineers.
Gearboxes
A 100kA LV (low voltage) switchboard, developed by system integrator Boulting for building services and industrial facilities requiring high fault protection, was developed with the help of ABB...
Electrical Distribution
The 2015 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering has been awarded to the chemical engineer Dr Robert Langer for his revolutionary works spanning chemistry and medicine.
Engineering Competence/Skills
A free new guide has been published by EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation, aimed at helping to ease Britain’s manufacturers into compliance with the government’s mandatory Energy Savings Opportunity...
Carbon Emissions
Findlay Media – which publishes Plant Engineer, Works Management, Eureka, FAST, Machinery and New Electronics – is launching Manufacturing & Engineering North East (MENE).
Maintenance Management Systems
Mentor Training has launched the first- IOSH-accredited (Institution of Occupational Safety and Health) safety management course aimed at those responsible for overseeing forklift operations.
Manual Handling
Process transmitters specialist Endress and Hauser has launched more than 100 free, instructional videos for engineers and technicians to its YouTube channel.
Process Transmitters
All of IMI’s fluid power businesses – including Norgren – have been brought under a single new division: IMI Precision Engineering.
Pneumatic Components/Equipment
As part of a £3 million investment, Northern Ireland Water is upgrading equipment at Luke’s Point pumping station, installing two Archimedes screw pumps to improve the water and sewerage...
Pumps
Redundant batteries from electric vehicles are at the heart of a project launched by the Second Life Batteries alliance that aims to form a large-scale energy storage system in Hamburg.
Power Plant