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22/07/2014 Engineering firm fined after workers suffer nerve damage 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 nerve conditions. » Read More

21/07/2014 New edition of EEMUA electrical Ex ATEX handbook EEMUA, the Engineering Equipment and Materials Users Association, has published the sixth edition of EEMUA Publication 186, a practitioner's handbook for explosive atmospheres. » Read More

18/07/2014 WEG proves massive dual-pinion ball mill drive Industrial electric motors specialist WEG has successfully tested low-speed synchronous motors driven by frequency inverters at up to a massive 250,000Nm shaft torque – for mills with dual pinions – at its plant in Brazil. » Read More

18/07/2014 Airbus fined £200,000 over worker’s death Aeroplane manufacturer Airbus has been fined £200,000 and ordered to pay £58,891 in costs following the death of an employee who was crushed between a tractor and a fertiliser spreader at the firm's plant in Broughton. » Read More

18/07/2014 BG Energy completes West Burton CCGT commissioning Commissioning of the ventilation, extraction and air handling equipment at EDF Energy's new 1,320MW CCGT (combined cycle gas turbine) power station at West Burton, Nottinghamshire, is now complete. » Read More

18/07/2014 Manufacturers support apprenticeships Sheffield-based Numill and Dorset based Superior Seals have thrown their weight behind a nationwide push to champion apprenticeships for small businesses by joining Apprenticemakers, a free nationwide peer-to-peer support community for ... » Read More

17/07/2014 Llwyn Onn WTW gets Mitsubishi DR treatment 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 reliability stats. » Read More

17/07/2014 Combine safety valves with bursting discs, urges Fike 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 industries. » Read More

16/07/2014 Wolds smells secrets of success with peristaltic pumps 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. » Read More

16/07/2014 First in-house inverter drive from Atlas Copco Atlas Copco has launched its first in-house designed inverter drive, which will now be used throughout its GA 37-90 VSD range of compressors. » Read More

15/07/2014 Ashtead creates NDT centre of excellence: spends £1m 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. » Read More

15/07/2014 Teachers to receive engineering work experience A scheme to offer Stem teachers work placements with engineering and manufacturing organisations to help them better explain career opportunities to their students has been launched by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (ImechE). » Read More

15/07/2014 Historic nuclear fuel retrievals restarts at Sellafield The task of emptying canned fuel from the original Windscale fuel storage pond at Sellafield has restarted, following two years of work to refurbish a facility that repackages canned fuel into modern containers. » Read More

14/07/2014 Poor school careers advice deters future engineers, says IMechE UK pupils are receiving poor careers advice from teachers who lack understanding of business and industry, according to a new poll by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE). » Read More

14/07/2014 Government cuts spend on science, engineering and technology The UK government spent £10 billion on science, engineering and technology (SET) in 2012, a 1% decrease compared with 2011, and continuing the downward trend in SET expenditure since 2009. » Read More

11/07/2014 Shell selects ABB for LV switchgear and MCCs 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. » Read More

11/07/2014 Oil analysis service reduces machinery downtime To help plant managers tackle the problem of contaminated oil causing hydraulic system failures, Bosch Rexroth has launched an oil analysis service. » Read More

10/07/2014 Topping out at the UK’s first ‘faculty on the factory floor’ The new £32 million+ Institute for Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering (AME) took another major step forward this week when the final part of the roof was put into place at its dedicated manufacturing hub in the West Midlands. » Read More

10/07/2014 Festo to launch process automation technology roadshow 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. » Read More

09/07/2014 Lee Tunnel London protection scheme uses largest ever GIW pumps 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 huge pumping system 80 metres below ... » Read More

09/07/2014 Preformed Windings moves to Clyde Blowers Capital Wolverhampton-based Deritend Industries has sold Preformed Windings to Clyde Blowers Capital for an undisclosed sum. The business joins CBC's electric machines group. » Read More

08/07/2014 Go-ahead for Minesto marine plant as Wales invests in renewables The world's first commercial tidal power project designed to harvest energy from low-velocity currents has secured a Crown Estate lease on the seabed. » Read More

08/07/2014 Emerson expands scope for vibrating fork level switch Emerson Process Management's Rosemount 2120 vibrating fork liquid level switches have now been certified for SIL 2 functional safety with SIL 3 capability, meeting the most demanding safety requirements. » Read More

07/07/2014 Suffolk firm in court after teenage worker’s arm crushed A Suffolk horse bedding manufacturer and its managing director have been fined after a young employee's arm was crushed when he was removing compacted dust from a baling machine. » Read More

07/07/2014 Squad UK announced for WorldSkills São Paulo 2015 The UK's most talented apprentices are set to put their skills to the test at WorldSkills São Paulo 2015 from 11-16 August, 2015. » Read More