Mark Venables

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Hygienic nylon and rubber castors keep it clean

From hospital beds to IV drips, castor wheels are heavily utilised in the healthcare industry to provide mobile and timely care to patients across a facility.

Plant Operations
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Switches in critical control networks at Czech petrochemical plant

Unipetrol is a major refinery and petrochemical company in the Czech Republic. One of the company’s biggest assets is the industrial premises Chempark Záluží which is the largest chemical production...

Safety Related Control Systems
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Screener generates pitch perfect product for MD Recycling

A waste management company in Mid Wales has ramped up the quality and speed of its recycled products after investing in a new screener

Recycling
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High-pressure plunger pumps with new drive technology

Kamat has fundamentally revised the mechanical powertrain of its triplex plunger pumps for pressures up to 3500 bar.

Gearboxes
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Multi-Carrier-System delivers flexible, Industry 4.0-ready intralogistics

Festo has announced the Multi-Carrier-System (MCS), its Industry 4.0-ready linear motor track system, jointly developed with Siemens.

Conveyors
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Innovative and modular dry claw vacuum pump range

Atlas Copco has launched its new DZS 2.2 to 6.2 kW dry claw vacuum pump range, which incorporates an innovative modular, easy-clean design to establish a new benchmark in dry claw vacuum pump...

Vacuum Pumps/Pipes
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Whisky power: bio-energy transforms distillery sector

Diageo’s on-site biogas plant at Glendullan fully operational for 12 months, producing 6,000 MW hours of renewable heat

Biomass Plant
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Ethernet switches manage increasing demand for high-speed communication networks on-board rail vehicles

To meet the growing need for more capacity in train communications networks, Westermo has introduced a new generation of Ethernet train switches that provide highly robust networks to support many end...

Communication Systems
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Torque limiters combine millisecond disengagement with patented zero backlash design

R+W torque limiting couplings from Drive Lines feature a pre-loaded ball detent design that eliminates backlash. The design also ensures a much faster operation, separating the drive and driven...

Couplings
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Hinkley Point C contract for Harris Pye Engineering

Harris Pye UK has been awarded a contract by GE Steam Power Systems for engineering design work on two tank sets, including all required services, for the turbine halls of EDF’s Hinkley Point C...

Nuclear Plant
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Adjustable clamping lever offers tool-les fitting

The 6-141 adjustable clamping lever from FDB Panel Fittings offers quick, easy and tool-less fixing of components with push-button activated release or adjustment.

Plant Operations
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Automatic monitoring of mobile harbour equipment ensures reliability and safety

The increasing globalisation of the world economy is pressurising ports, docks and harbours into handling ever-increasing volumes of cargo, so mobile harbour equipment has to work efficiently and...

Condition Monitoring