MCP is celebrating the award of the UK’s highest accolade for business success -The Queen’s Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2016.
Planned Maintenance
One of the North West’s leading hauliers, Earl Transport of Accrington, has for the first time specified the type of landing gear to be fitted to its new trailers. The units chosen were JOST Modul B...
Plant Operations
After nearly 60 years of service the hydro generator at Lochay Power Station was scheduled for refurbishment and the project was awarded to Sulzer, which has a history in high voltage generator...
Plant Refurbishing/Remanufacture
Staff at Connah’s Quay Power Station have installed the latest luminescent optical dissolved oxygen (LDO) monitoring technology to minimise operational requirements whilst protecting the plant’s high...
Power Plant
With engineering facing a huge skills crisis, a pioneering new project is giving schoolchildren in a UK school mini apprenticeship to reverse the decline of young people choosing careers in industry.
Apprenticeships
A large steel fabrication company based in North Yorkshire, has been fined after a forklift truck (FLT) operator was killed when the truck he was operating overturned.
Forklift Trucks
A company dedicated to eradicating noise-induced hearing loss has launched a revolutionary new product, which enables employers to create a pair of custom-moulded plugs for an individual employee in...
Personal Protective Equipment
The Philippines is the world’s second largest producer of geothermal energy for power generation, with an installed capacity of 1.9 GW, which accounts for 12 per cent of the nation’s total electric...
Plant Refurbishing/Remanufacture
Most loads need gentle handling and stopping, so Ian Carr of Drive Lines explains the vital role played by stops and dampers.
Conveyors
Lloyds British Testing [LBT] has been awarded a major three-year inspection and certification contract by BAE Systems.
Planned Maintenance
EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation, has today published a new report looking at the importance of the EU to UK manufacturing and making the case as to why the UK should vote to remain.
Plant Operations
Chris Nevin, Industry Sector Manager at Bosch Rexroth, reveals why cabinet-free drive technology is a necessity in manufacturing
Drives