Electrical engineering group Quartzelec is relocating to new workshops in Grimsby, which it says will help meet the growing requirement for electric motor and generator rewinds, repairs and services.
Electric Motors AC
Paper producer Double A – which is championing sustainable feedstock, with trees farmed in a programme called Paper from KHAN-NA, harnessing unused agricultural land – is reporting success with using...
Electric Motors AC
The European renewable energy industry has written to the European Parliament president Martin Schulz, EU energy ministers and the EU Energy and Climate Commissioners to call for a legally binding...
Biomass Plant
The SCX Academy has launched a new course to help people in charge of companies' lifting equipment make sense of the laws surrounding their safe usage – ultimately keeping themselves legal and their...
Manual Handling
German high-volume injection-moulding specialist AGI Freden is reporting energy efficiency improvements of 4% since becoming the first to trial Shell Tellus S4 ME lubricant on three of its Engel and...
Lubricants/Greases
Too few engineering firms are ready for the Health and Safety Executive's (HSE) new focus on competency.
Occupational Health
Emerson Process Management's CHARMs electronic marshalling technology has now notched up over 1 billion operating hours at more than 300 oil and gas plant sites.
Process Management Systems
A temperature sensor developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge could improve the efficiency, control and safety of high temperature engines.
Temperature measurement
Lime specialist Lhoist UK has combined its Neutralac extra-strong 'smart liquid lime' with high-flow peristaltic pump technology to improve the treatment of acidic waste streams on site.
Pumps
Air Control Industries in Axminster is reporting success with a bespoke 50kW solar PV (photovoltaic) array on its factory roof, which is now generating significant energy and cutting its bills.
Solar Energy
By replacing a solid spherical roller bearing on an exhaust gas fan with a split spherical roller bearing, an unnamed chemical plant has saved €220,000, according to supplier Schaeffler.
Bearings
IOSH (the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health) is urging politicians to put greater emphasis on good occupational health and wellbeing.
Occupational Health