It is 30 years to the day since the Bhopal tragedy, when a major leak of methyl isocyanate gas from Union Carbide India's facility in Madhya Pradesh, India, killed 3,000 and injured hundreds of...
Ageing Plant
Fifty seven years after the UK's worst nuclear incident, the skyline in West Cumbria is set to change forever as Sellafield tackles the task of bringing down the second and final ventilation chimney...
Nuclear Plant
Shanks Waste Management anaerobic digestion (AD) plant, located on the Westcott Venture Park in Buckinghamshire, has been completed.
Biomass Plant
Swedish contractor V Städ is reporting success using a Genie SX-180 self-propelled telescopic super boom lift, instead of a truck-mounted platform to clean windows on the Lindholmen building in...
Cranes
On 1 January 2015, EU MEPS (the European minimum efficiency performance standard) comes into force, and all 7.5—375kW motors bought in Europe must meet IE3 efficiency levels, or IE2, but only if...
Electric Motors AC
Bituchem Building Products is reporting success with pumping latex – well known for its difficult pumping characteristics – on a production line producing bituminous road materials.
Pumps
Siemens has extended its partnership with the British Glass Manufacturers' Confederation, pledging a five-year, £4 million investment in a new technology partnership.
PLCs
As we go to press, with the 2014 party political conference season almost over and the closing speeches still ringing (perhaps somewhat hollow?) in our ears, it's interesting to ponder the dilemma for...
Control Panels
Food packaging manufacturer Smurfit Kappa reckons it will cut £60,000 from its energy bill following the installation of ABB variable speed drives (VSDs) on its shredder fans.
Variable Speed Drives
Emerson is launching a process reliability management consulting service, which, it says, could save global companies more than $50 billion a year in costs while also increasing capacity by more than...
Predictive Maintenance
Fairfield General Hospital, in Bury, Greater Manchester, is to cut carbon emissions by some 700 tonnes per year, following the installation of a new CHP (combined heat and power) plant, supplied and...
Combined Heat & Power
Vector Aerospace International has been fined £50,000 plus £2,514 costs after 13 employees were diagnosed with varying degrees of diagnosed with HAVS (hand arm vibration syndrome).
HAV