At about 5.00pm on Saturday 1 June 1974, the Nypro plant at Flixborough near Scunthorpe, manufacturing caprolactam for nylon, exploded. 28 people lost their lives, 53 workers were hospitalised, and...
Disaster
UK employees suffered 10,835 major injuries as a result of slipping and tripping in 2005/06, according to the HSE, so such accidents remain serious problems - accounting for 38% of all major injuries....
Flooring
Engineers know there are significant opportunities for improving energy efficiency in boiler houses - saving cost and reducing carbon footprint, while also helping users to be eligible for the Carbon...
Steam Generation/Equipment
Around 95% of industrial and commercial lubricant applications can be satisfied by the newer generations of biolubricants derived from crops like oil seed rape and sunflowers - and for many there are...
Lubricants/Greases
Operations engineers have never been so challenged as they are now. Look at the plethora of new tools, technologies and equipment flooding into industry generally. Look at the heightened requirements...
Continuing Professional Development
Nothing can be more important than employee safety: turnover and profit are meaningless in comparison with the well-being and security of staff. If a serious accident, or worse a fatality, occurs as a...
Personal Protective Equipment
Operations, plant and transport engineers with an eye to the future would do well to get to the Commercial Vehicle Show (CV 2007) at the NEC Birmingham, 24-26 April. The transport industry is adopting...
Lifting Equipment
Inadequately designed and/or poorly maintained car transporters and tipping trailers are presenting increasing and potentially serious risks to drivers and operators. And they're not alone: there also...
Lifts
Plant maintenance has always been seen as a necessary evil. So the idea of investing cash in technologies to predict when and what might be necessary doesn't cut much ice with many managers. They...
Planned Maintenance
Most worthwhile energy-saving techniques have been around for years, but, as increased energy prices, newer legislation and growing public awareness around emissions all force users to reconsider fuel...
Heat Pumps
Timetable
What:
Maintec 2007
Where:
20-22 March, NEC, Birmingham
When:
Tuesday 20 March
10.00-16.00
Wednesday 21 March
10.00-16.00
Thursday 22 March
10.00-15.00
For some 30 years,...
1. Building on its vast experience, Clyde Bergemann has developed a new dry bottom ash system, known as DRYCON
2. Adjustable air inlets are located along the casing
3. Air inlets are also to be...