LEEA has launched the eighth edition of its Code of Practice for the Safe Use of Lifting Equipment (COPSULE) – along with a new version of the User's Pocket Guide to Lifting Equipment.
Lifting EquipmentEmerson Process Management has now commissioned state-of-the-art liquid density meter calibration facilities in Slough, UK and Boulder, USA, which, it claims, are a world first for multiple...
Density Measurement
Emerson Process Management's Rosemount 5300 guided wave radar (GWR) process level transmitters have now been certified to IEC 61508 for safety instrumented process plant functions to SIL 3.
Level Measurement
Following completion of two more CHP (combined heat and power) plant projects – replacing one engine with a 400kWe unit on the main campus and installing another 400kWe on its Gibbet Hill campus – the...
Combined Heat & PowerThe £1.5 million boiler house for United Utilities' innovative £4.3 million waste-to-energy plant, at Davyhulme in Manchester, has completed final testing and been handed over for operation by Spirax...
Steam Generation/Equipment
Drives, inverters, soft starters, servo drives and electric motors specialist WEG has opened a European automation centre at its site in Unna, Germany.
Electric Motors AC
Suncor Energy has selected Honeywell Process Solutions to provide automation systems for its new multi-billion dollar Fort Hills Oil Sands project, in Alberta, Canada.
Process Management Systems
ABB has now recycled 100 tonnes of old variable speed drives (VSDs), since starting its recycling scheme in 2003.
Recycling
A £1 million expansion at the Lincoln works of Turbine Efficiency has seen the installation of two stands for testing powergen gas turbines after they have been stripped down, repaired and rebuilt.
Turbines
The British Safety Council has formally launched its 2014 Sword of Honour and Globe of Honour awards, to celebrate exemplary management of health, safety and environmental risks.
Social Responsibility
A £30,000 robotic arm controlled by MP Julian Huppert has officially opened a £3 million engineering and manufacturing department in Cambridge.
Robots
Speciality chemicals firm Clariant has signed a deal with Siemens Fuel Gasification Technology to cooperate in the commercialisation of a new, jointly developed sour gas shift (SGS) technology for...
CCGT