Up to £2,512 million of energy cost savings could be made in the UK within five years, if industry fully implemented variable speed drives (VSDs) on electric motors, according to a new report from...
Electric Motors AC
Smaller companies are running the risk of unlimited fines, or even prison, by failing to comply with the REACH (Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals) Directive on hazardous...
Chemical Protection
Carbolite ovens are making a significant difference to the accuracy and consistency of product testing conducted at the James Walker Technology Centre in Cockermouth, UK.
Heating Systems
2012 Best Factory Award winner Vernacare, which manufactures products to manage human waste disposal, says that the installation of two new compressors is cutting plant energy consumption by 6%.
Compressors
The world's first IE4 synchronous reluctance motor and drive package (SynRM) from ABB has replaced an induction motor-based variable-speed drive (VSD) package at South Staffs Water in the UK – and...
Electric Motors AC
Coalville-based fabrication firm Kenray Forming has been fined £10,000 and ordered to pay costs of £1,932 after a worker had part of his finger severed in a packaging machine back in September 2011.
Machine Safety/Protection
Siemens Industry has extended the range of its Totally Integrated Automation (TIA) Portal engineering framework for control and automation systems development.
Control Panels
Sellafield has completed an important step towards retrieving waste from a 60 year-old nuclear fuel storage pond, now that a bespoke skip handler has been brought back to full operation for the first...
Nuclear Plant
Oil and gas industry centrifugal pumps specialist Amarinth has won its first order in Iraq – to supply 12 API 610 OH2 A-Series pumps for the Zubair Initial Production Facility.
Pumps
GlaxoSmithKline and combined heat and power (CHP) specialist Ener-G have been highly commended by the Combined Heat and Power Association (CHPA) for their installation of more than 20MW of CHP across...
Combined Heat & Power
Warwick Castle's Great Hall is warming to the presence of three new Potterton cast iron boilers, from Baxi Commercial Division, which have now replaced 30-year old boilers from the same firm.
Boilers
Plant and electrical engineers are being warned to take more care in sizing electrical motors in line with regulations and guidelines aimed at driving down emissions, fuel consumption and costs.
Electric Motors AC