Festo Didactic has expanded its learning system offering with Skills Conveyor, a transfer belt learning system that can be used to acquire automation technology skills.
Engineering Competence/Skills
A £3 million investment has been commissioned to return a boiler at British Steel’s central power station in Scunthorpe to maximum efficiency.
Boilers
Burckhardt Compression has repaired a compressor cylinder for an unnamed producer suspension polyvinyl chloride in Germany.
Compressors
Flexicon has launched a bulk bag container that features arched doorway masts that increase overhead clearance for easier insertion and removal of bulk bags using a forklift.
Forklift Trucks
FCL has announced the introduction of a technical development centre that comprises facilities for testing engine air, heating ventilation and air conditioning and cabin air filters.
Heating Systems
RS Group has acquired Distrelec – a distributor of industrial and maintenance, repair and operations products – as part of a €365 million deal.
Maintenance Management Systems
Valmet is to upgrade a boiler at the Fibre Excellence Provence mill in Tarascon, France, to optimise a new evaporation unit coming by the end of 2023.
Boilers
NSK has confirmed the use of bioplastic for its NSK S1 retaining piece reduces its carbon footprint by more than 90% over its lifecycle.
Bearings
Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has confirmed a number of fires on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) powered forklift trucks and other similar vehicles have occurred during starting.
Health and Safety
Thomson has confirmed its new electric actuator can handle dynamic loads up to 25,000N and can take on tasks that previously only hydraulic devices could achieve.
Materials Handling
Servomex has claimed its Servotough Laser 3 Plus range occupies a footprint one-tenth the size of many competitor products, providing benefits for installation and flexibility.
Gas Analyses
Socotec UK has supported McLaren’s Section 61 application and dust management plan (DMP) for the repurposing of Oxford Street’s D.H Evens into an adaptive mixed-use development.
Fume Extraction