The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is urging plant owners and managers to focus on their legal responsibility to ensure lives are not put at risk, and to make the safety of workers their top...
Machine Safety/Protection
Nuclear decommissioning work at Magnox's Trawsfynydd nuclear power station in North Wales has started, under the direction of the Doosan Keltbray consortium.
Nuclear Plant
Emerson has acquired solids volume and level measurement instrumentation developer APM Automation Solutions for an undisclosed sum – expanding its portfolio into solids-based process and inventory...
Level Measurement
Wessex Water is reporting that a GFS (glass fused to steel) sludge buffer tank at one of its sewage treatment sites has been swiftly and easily repaired using Belzona polymeric repair composites and...
Water Treatment
Polypropylene fibres and yarns manufacturer Drake Extrusion has upgraded process heating at its Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, plant, with two new Babcock Wanson thermal fluid heaters.
Heating Systems
The £450m Able Marine Energy Park, in North Lincolnshire – the largest offshore wind energy manufacturing facility in Europe, expected to create around 4,000 jobs – has been given the go-ahead.
Renewable Energy
Glass recycling firm Reuse Collections, of South Kirkby, Pontefract, has been fined £5,000 with £3,638 costs after Sheffield teenager had his arm crushed when it was drawn into the unguarded danger...
Machine Safety/Protection
Thermal protection for nine compressor stations along a gas transmission line from the huge Bovanenkovo natural gas field, in the far north of Siberia, has been successfully installed by Pentair...
Heating Systems
Facilities managers and consultants should find it easier to select the best building management system for their needs, following publication of a white paper by Honeywell.
Process Management Systems
Envases (UK), which manufacturers aluminium containers, was fined £13,000 and ordered to pay costs of £6,590 in court yesterday (11 December 2013) for safety failings after an employee suffered...
Machine Safety/Protection
Total Petrochemicals UK is using specialist decommissioning, and demolition consultancy RVA Group to oversee and co-ordinate the dismantling of its polystyrene manufacturing site close to the centre...
Plant Refurbishing/Remanufacture
A unnamed Scandinavian biogas producer has selected Michell Instruments' analysers to monitor oxygen levels for safety and quality at two sites.
Gas Analyses