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Alton Towers sees reliability soar on CT drives

Alton Towers Resort is standardising on ac drives from Control Techniques for all drive replacements, having faced support issues on existing drives in the air handling plant for the Splash Landings...

Fans
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Manchester Airport saves 4,000MWh on ABB drives and motors

A project to upgrade the air handling units at Manchester Airport is saving 4,000 MWh, as well as cutting CO2 emissions by over 2,000 tonnes a year.

Electric Motors AC
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500-strong: LEEA reaches membership milestone

The Indonesian branch of All-Rig Lifting and Engineering Supplies has become the 500th member of the Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA).

Materials Handling
Product Launches

Fuel cell demonstration breakthrough comes from ACAL

ACAL Energy says it has achieved key milestones in the development of its FlowCath platinum-free liquid cathode fuel cell technology.

Energy Recovery
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Eaton stops nuisance trips and saves money For HG Timber

Nuisance tripping of a main incoming circuit breaker at HG Timber has been eliminated following a free on-site power factor correction survey by Eaton's Electrical Sector.

Electrical Distribution
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81% increase in energy bills forecast for 2021

Plant managers must make long term energy management a priority, if the findings of a new research report, entitled The Energy Price Challenge, are to be believed.

Energy Audits
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Wind energy generators to be spin off from WEG JV

Industrial motors giant WEG has signed a partnership and technology transfer deal with M Torres Olvega Industrial of Spain, which will up the stakes in wind energy generators.

Electric Motors AC
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Video shows how variable-speed drive saves bakery £20,000 a year

A new ABB video, produced with Energy Live News, shows how a variable-speed drive is helping The Village Bakery (Nutrition) to save £20,000 per year at its Abenbury Way site in Wrexham.

Conveyors
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Rockwell launches mobile energy-saving calculators

An online and mobile estimating tool from Rockwell Automation allows plant engineers and managers to calculate savings available to them from implementing variable frequency drives to power pumps and...

Variable Speed Drives
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Amarinth delivers £750k high alloy pumps 10 weeks faster

Specialist centrifugal pumps manufacture Amarinth has delivered £750,000 worth of API 610 OH2 pumps to ZADCO on a lead-time 10 weeks quicker than its nearest competitor.

Pumps
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ExxonMobil launches online industrial lubricant selector, Looble

ExxonMobil Lubricants & Specialties has launched what it playfully calls Looble, an online industrial lubricant selector designed to help maintenance engineers make informed lubricant choices.

Lubricants/Greases
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Speedy scoops nuclear plant and equipment deal

Plant hire firm Speedy has secured a three-year agreement with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority to supply lifting consumables the nuclear processing plants, including Sellafield, Magnox and...

Nuclear Plant