SPS Aerostructures has been ordered to pay more than £190,000 in fines and costs for failing to protect its employees from the effects of vibration, after 24 workers were diagnosed with debilitating...
HAV
British Sugar has taken delivery of bespoke designed centrifugal pumps from specialist Amarinth for its sugar production process at the Newark factory in Nottinghamshire.
Pumps
Sellafield is finalising plans to demolish an iconic 61-metre chimney that sits on top of a main 11-storey reprocessing plant at the site – making it the tallest historic structure at Europe's oldest...
Ageing Plant
The £17 million Dee Valley Water's (DVW) Llwyn Onn, North Wales, water treatment works, which opened in March 2014, is controlled by a Mitsubishi Electric redundant Q series PLC, chosen for its...
Water Treatment
Fire, explosion and pressure relief systems specialist Fike UK is alerting plant engineers to the benefits of using bursting (rupture) discs with PRVs (pressure relief valves) in the process...
control valves
Fragrances producer Wolds Manufacturing says that installing a Flexicon PF6 peristaltic filling machine has enabled capacity and sales growth, thanks to its rapid changeover capability.
Pumps
Rental instruments specialist Ashtead Technology has invested £1 million in new NDT (non destructive testing) equipment in a bid to create an NDT Centre of Excellence.
Instrumentation
To help plant managers tackle the problem of contaminated oil causing hydraulic system failures, Bosch Rexroth has launched an oil analysis service.
Oil Analysis
Shell has signed a five-year deal with ABB, which becomes its global single-source supplier of low-voltage switchgear, motor control centres and related services.
Motor Control
Festo announces that its Process Automation Mobile will start the UK leg of its European tour, visiting industry sites between 8 and 19 September 2014.
Pneumatic Components/Equipment
London's multi-million pound, high profile Lee Tunnel wastewater project, seen as critical to the protection of the capital's growing population from sewage overflow, has seen the installation of a...
Bearings
It may come as a surprise to many to learn that some 25–30% of work-based fatalities in manufacturing industry (which for the last five years has recorded around 30 deaths annually) are related to...
Planned Maintenance