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27/05/2014 Hotel ECM motor retrofit saves 400,000kW per annum One of Boston's (North America) most famous hotels is reaping the benefits of massive energy savings, as well as delivering on its commitment to protect the environment, thanks to a retrofit of energy-efficient motors. » Read More

27/05/2014 Q8Oils publishes plant maintenance guide A plant maintenance brochure from Q8Oils provides an overview of the firm's range of slideway lubricants, rust preventatives, greases and plant maintenance oils. » Read More

23/05/2014 National Trust Plas Newydd switches on marine source heat pump The National Trust has completed commissioning of Britain's largest ever marine source heat pump – at Plas Newydd, the Trust's 300-year-old mansion on the North Wales coast. » Read More

23/05/2014 Engineering firm in court over worker’s injuries A Radcliffe company has been fined £3,000 and ordered to pay £3,767 costs after a worker suffered serious injuries when he was dragged into dangerous parts of a moving machine. » Read More

22/05/2014 Packing firm’s compressor waste heat warms local college Greiner Packaging's plant in Northern Ireland is helping a local college to cut its £40,000 annual heating bill by donating waste heat from compressors and its process cooling installation. » Read More

22/05/2014 Electrochemistry: new way to turn low-grade heat to electricity Researchers at MIT and Stanford University in the US have discovered a new way to transform low-temperature waste-heat into electricity, where temperature differences are less than 100C. » Read More

22/05/2014 Fall risk failings land Jarrow firm in court An engineering company has been fined £24,000 and ordered to pay £1,146.80 in costs for safety failings which exposed workers to serious risks of injury from a fall. » Read More

21/05/2014 Tata Steel saves 7,400 MWh with ABB DriveSave scheme Tata Steel's Port Talbot steelworks is reporting energy savings of more than 7,400 MWh a year, following installation of 62 ABB VSDs (variable speed drives). » Read More

21/05/2014 ECS Engineering raises the roof on pump maintenance When the pumps at Knowlston Place pumping station, in Matlock, Derbyshire, reached end of life, ECS Engineering Services carried out the replacement project, along with electrical work and building modifications – including removing the ... » Read More

20/05/2014 Company prosecuted after young engineer dies An international smoothie and fruit juice company has been fined £80,000 and ordered to pay £75,000 costs for safety failings after an engineer was killed by falling pipework during work to decommission a former factory in South Wales. » Read More

20/05/2014 BP improves chemical plant leak detection with wireless technology BP ha revealed that it is using 'smart' wireless technology at its Geel, Belgium, chemical plant as part of a continuous leak detection system to improve safety surveillance on storage tanks, valves and pipelines. » Read More

19/05/2014 Industrial wireless blackout looms: GAMBICA warning GAMBICA – the trade association for instrumentation, control, automation and laboratory technology industry – is warning of a "major industrial wireless failure" unless the new EN62657-2 industrial wireless co-existence standard is ... » Read More

19/05/2014 Brevini invests in aftermarket power transmission services Power transmissions specialist Brevini says users can expect to see improvements in aftermarket services following recent significant investments. » Read More

16/05/2014 Food giant Heinz sentenced after engineer’s life-changing injury Global food producer Heinz has been fined £50,000 and ordered to pay costs of £9,661 for serious safety failings after an engineer had his hand severed when it became trapped in live, unguarded machinery at its Norfolk plant. » Read More

16/05/2014 AME technology director targets £5m research fund The technology director of the UK's first dedicated 'faculty on the factory floor' – the Institute for Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering (AME) – has set his sights on securing up to £5m of funding this year to help develop the next ... » Read More

16/05/2014 Firm fined £140,000 over forklift death A sauces manufacturer has been fined £140,000 after a forklift truck driver was killed at a factory in Runcorn. » Read More

14/05/2014 Cherry Valley freezes out £30,000 on variable-speed drives Cherry Valley Farms, one of the UK's largest producers of duck products, now expects to save £30,000 a year from its freezing costs, following the installation of ABB variable-speed drives on its blast chiller. » Read More

14/05/2014 Profit through effective maintenance Works Management is offering you the opportunity to boost your profits by learning from maintenance experts at global giants including Siemens, Advanced Technology Services and Milliken as they reveal the secrets of banishing downtime ... » Read More

12/05/2014 BES Engineer Surveyor award goes to RSA’s James Merritt The Bureau of Engineer Surveyors (BES) has named James Merritt as winner of its Engineer Surveyor Award 2014. » Read More

12/05/2014 New MD for Siemens Congleton plant Andrew Peters has been appointed managing director of Siemens Motion Control Plant in Congleton, Lancashire effective from 1 July 2014. He will replace Finbarr Dowling, who is to become project director for the new wind turbine ... » Read More

12/05/2014 Day announced to address gender gap in engineering The Women's Engineering Society (WES) has announced that National Women in Engineering Day will be on 23 June this year. » Read More

12/05/2014 Forklift operator in court after dangerous lift causes serious injury A forklift truck operator has been prosecuted for safety failings after a teenager was seriously injured by a falling heater unit weighing almost half-a-tonne during a dangerous lifting operation in Kent. » Read More

09/05/2014 Spirax Sarco and Dallol Energy solve wet biomass limit Spirax Sarco and Dallol Energy have delivered the boiler controls and steam system for a wet biomass system designed to deliver steam to a distillery and to heat 200 neighbouring Scottish homes via district heating. » Read More

09/05/2014 ABB updates low voltage electric motors guide ABB has published an updated version of it 128 pages Motor Guide – its most requested electric motor publication. » Read More

08/05/2014 Lord Drayson launches wireless energy business Drayson Wireless, headed by Lord Drayson, says it is now working with Imperial Innovations and Imperial College to bring "groundbreaking wireless energy transfer technology" to market. » Read More