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18/08/2014 Industry calls for permanent infrastructure authority Britain's manufacturers have called for the creation of a permanent UK infrastructure authority to address the nation's long term strategic infrastructure requirements, bring coherence to debates on infrastructure challenges and encourage ... » Read More

18/08/2014 Stonehaven firm fined £240,000 after driver crushed to death A Stonehaven animal feed company has been fined £240,000 after a lorry driver was crushed to death when a two tonne, fully-loaded grain bin fell onto him from a forklift truck. » Read More

15/08/2014 ABB service to extend expensive transformer life ABB's UK transformer service team has launched a refurbishment and upgrading service that targets the two most common points of failure for power distribution transformers up to 132kV – the tap-changer and bushings. » Read More

14/08/2014 Buxton food packaging firm in court over forklift injuries A food packaging company in Buxton has been fined £30,000 and ordered to pay £2,979 in prosecution costs after an employee suffered severe injuries to his leg when he was struck by a forklift truck. » Read More

14/08/2014 Babcock Wanson boiler kicks off Viridor AD plant Recycling, renewable energy and waste management specialist Viridor has installed a Babcock Wanson HEB 1050 hot water boiler at its anaerobic digestion plant at Walpole, near Bridgwater, Somerset. » Read More

14/08/2014 Energy Institute publishes guide to ESOS energy efficiency Making the point that the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) will affect thousands of organisations, the Energy Institute (EI) has published a free guide. » Read More

13/08/2014 Worker badly burned after firm ignores safety risks A West Yorkshire company has been fined £10,000 and ordered to pay £7,885 in full costs after a worker was severely burned in a flashover during hot-cutting work at the Fox's Biscuits factory in Batley. » Read More

13/08/2014 Changes to ISO 14001 environmental standard worry engineers Worrying uncertainty about the impact revisions to the global standard for environmental management ISO 14001 will have is revealed in a new survey from specialist Cedrec. » Read More

13/08/2014 Micro-Epsilon UK senses 10th anniversary party Precision sensor manufacturer Micro-Epsilon celebrates its 10th anniversary in the UK this month (August 2014). » Read More

12/08/2014 White paper targets electrical harmonic mitigation System integrator CP Automation, has released a downloadable white paper for plant engineers explaining the various methods of mitigating the damage caused by harmonic currents and utility level voltage distortion. » Read More

12/08/2014 New generation motor control improves speed and torque accuracy ABB's direct torque control (DTC) – used on its variable speed drives since 1996 – has been significantly improved, bringing even higher accuracy motor speed and torque control, according to the firm. » Read More

11/08/2014 BOC fined after explosion causes life-changing injuries BOC has been fined £175,000 plus £85,000 costs following an explosion in January 2010 at one of its manufacturing plants in Bristol, which left one worker with life changing injuries and two others hurt. » Read More

11/08/2014 Fast laser processing being developed under A’Quilaco An advanced sensor-controlled laser cutting system is being developed for processing carbon fibre reinforced plastics, under the he European EraSME project A'Quilaco (Advanced online quality and process control for high-speed laser ... » Read More

11/08/2014 London first to order new bio-thermic digester plant London's Regional Waste Recycling (RWR) has chosen Advetec Technologies to install a new water treatment system using the firm's first industrial scale, bio-thermic digester. » Read More

08/08/2014 Twinwoods goes for 3.4MW biomass burn with Saxlund Twinwoods Heat & Power has contracted bio-energy and materials handling firm Saxlund International to supply proven biomass combustion and fuel handling solutions for its 3.4MWe biomass power station, due to open in 2015. » Read More

08/08/2014 Hinckley STW gets ECS health and safety treatment ECS Engineering Services has been contracted to replace or extend all hand railing, barriers and access steelwork at Severn Trent Water's Hinckley sewage treatment works, in Leicestershire. » Read More

08/08/2014 Directors and two firms fined over asbestos risk A Hartlepool firm and two of its directors have been fined along with a second company after redundant steel work was removed, putting workers at risk of asbestos exposure. » Read More

07/08/2014 £1.5m investment for Cammell Laird energy division Birkenhead-based shipyard and engineering services company Cammell Laird is ramping up its activity in the energy sector by investing more than £1.5 million in its facilities and appointing a senior nuclear engineer. » Read More

07/08/2014 Next-gen energy saving compressors launched by Atlas Copco Improved energy savings and productivity, as well as reduced operating costs are the chief claims for Atlas Copco's latest GA 90+-160 oil-injected rotary screw compressors. » Read More

07/08/2014 Sine wave pumps slash winery tanker offload times Broadland Wineries is reporting a massive boost in efficiency since replacing positive displacement (PD) pumps with MasoSine process pumps, from Watson Marlow. » Read More

06/08/2014 Thorite completes Norgren’s compressor air supply Pneumatics and process systems specialist Thorite has completed a contract to install the compressed air pipework system at pneumatic motion and fluid control firm Norgren's new 104,000 fts Engineering Advantage Centre, near Lichfield, ... » Read More

05/08/2014 Essex company in court after massive chemical spill An Essex company has been fined £50,000 and ordered to pay £14,231 in costs after four of its chemical storage tanks failed and spilled 150 tonnes of hazardous material. » Read More

05/08/2014 Timber firm fined over worker’s injuries A timber company has been fined £15,000 and ordered to pay £9,850 costs after an employee was run over by a forklift truck. » Read More

04/08/2014 Billerud Korsnäs installs Apex pumps for abrasive dosing Billerud Korsnäs has replaced a progressive cavity pump at its Beetham, Cumbria plant with Apex 10 hose pump technology for dosing abrasive pigment in kraft paper manufacture. » Read More

04/08/2014 BFPA launches training academy website The British Fluid Power Association (BFPA, incorporating the British Fluid Power Distributors Association (BFPDA), has unveiled an additional website dedicated to its training courses. » Read More