Thermal imaging systems specialist HGH Infrared Systems has launched Spynel-X, the world's highest definition IRST (nfrared search and track) device, capable of capturing full panoramic images in real...
Thermography (infrared cameras)
A new laser-based research and development cell, installed at the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) in Ansty, West Midlands, has been equipped with Europe's most powerful non-military laser.
Data Acquisition
Researchers at MIT and Stanford University in the US have discovered a new way to transform low-temperature waste-heat into electricity, where temperature differences are less than 100C.
Energy Recovery
Greiner Packaging's plant in Northern Ireland is helping a local college to cut its £40,000 annual heating bill by donating waste heat from compressors and its process cooling installation.
Compressors
When the pumps at Knowlston Place pumping station, in Matlock, Derbyshire, reached end of life, ECS Engineering Services carried out the replacement project, along with electrical work and building...
Pumps
ABB has published an updated version of it 128 pages Motor Guide – its most requested electric motor publication.
Electric Motors AC
Seldom does a single study on a solitary branch of science elicit global comment, transcending culture, politics, language, industry – indeed, society in general.
Apprenticeships
Many UK manufacturers have yet to be convinced about the suitability of robotic automation for low-volume or bespoke production processes.
Robots
Gardner Denver has announced thw winners of its oldest working compressors competition – a 1963 Hydrovane, entered for the user by distributor Airvane Compressors, and a 1936 CompAir unit, entered for...
Compressors
Dräger's Voice hazardous substances database is now available as an app for Apple iOS and Android mobile phones for online and offline use.
Occupational Health
Thames Water is undertaking a £675m upgrade programme that includes a £200m expansion of the Crossness STW (sewage treatment works) and £190m expansion at its Beckton STW, the largest in the UK.
Wastewater Plant
Lafarge Tarmac's Tunstead cement plant has recently been modernised to provide safe access for maintenance around two automatic cranes used to handle raw materials, such as aggregates.
Cranes