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05/12/2012 Fine for manufacturer after forklift accident at cardboard factory Cardboard manufacturer Smurfit Kappa has been fined £8,000 plus £14,000 costs after forklift reversed and hit a worker at its Caerphilly factory. » Read More

04/12/2012 Young shun 'boring' engineering as 'a world of lumpy objects' Young would-be engineers need "space age inspiration" to stop them being discouraged by the idea that industry is dull and stifled by rules. » Read More

04/12/2012 Amarinth sets standard in ZADCO for API 610 VS4 pumps Oil and gas industry pump manufacturer Amarinth has delivered a new bearing flush monitoring system to ZADCO for API 610 VS4 pumps, which it says sets new standards. » Read More

04/12/2012 Royston worker loses fingers on unguarded power hammer Johnson Matthey has been fined £20,000 plus costs of £2,194 after an employee sustained serious hand injuries at a plant in Royston, Herts, operated by the company. » Read More

03/12/2012 Weg energy-efficient motors claim 40% less losses Electric motors specialist Weg has launched a range of "breakthrough" motors that it claims provide ultra- high energy efficiency. » Read More

03/12/2012 Bosch Rexroth helps Fiennes’ Antarctic Expedition Bosch Rexroth is providing back-up generator drive equipment to Sir Ranulph Fiennes' polar expedition, The Coldest Journey – the first attempt to cross the Antarctic during the polar winter. » Read More

03/12/2012 Oil in water detection prevents steel plant failure Installation of a continuous oil-in-water monitor in coolant water at an unnamed steel reprocessing plant has prevented downtime and avoided costly and time-consuming laboratory analysis, according to Hach Lange. » Read More

30/11/2012 Huge motors to transform Alexandria’s public health Regal is supplying seven enormous motors for a new wastewater pumping station being built in Alexandria, Egypt's second largest city. » Read More

29/11/2012 ABB drives save Tata Steel £250,000 on fume extraction The Aldwarke Bloom Caster complex in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, is set to save £250,000 a year, following the installation of variable-speed drives on its fume extraction system. » Read More

29/11/2012 Rotor insertion flowmeter can be installed live A rotor insertion flowmeter that can be installed 'hot' into live pipework has been introduced by Spirax Sarco. » Read More

29/11/2012 Cranfield opens clean energy research centre Cranfield University's new £2 million energy laboratory was opened on Tuesday 27 November (2012) by Jonathan Holyoak, head of policy for the Office of Carbon Capture and Storage. » Read More

28/11/2012 Faversham factory fined for injuries from unguarded circular saw Kentish engineering firm BMM Weston has been fined £2,400 with £1985 costs, after one of its factory workers suffered severe injuries while operating an unguarded circular saw on a broken machine. » Read More

28/11/2012 Sellafield sludge retrieval gets successful mammoth lift One of the most technically challenging crane lifts ever performed on the Sellafield site passed off without problems recently. » Read More

28/11/2012 The Skills Show brings inspiration to thousands The first Skills Show, held at the NEC in Birmingham from 15—17 November 2012, saw more than 70,000 visitors, according to figures released by the show's organiser, just released. » Read More

27/11/2012 High-temperature synthetic oil demand soars as supplies dry up High-temperature synthetic oils for heat transfer will soon be in short supply as a world-wide shortage looms. » Read More

27/11/2012 Plastics firm fined over employee’s finger injury Industrial Anti Corrosives, in Dunnockshaw, has been fined £5,000 plus £3,991 costs, after one of its employees narrowly avoided severing his fingers when his hand came into contact with a rotating blade. » Read More

26/11/2012 Big names sign up for industrial drives management service SEW Eurodrive is reporting that its Complete Drives Management (CDM) service has already attracted some of the biggest names in manufacturing. » Read More

26/11/2012 Health and environment risks in building insulation, US study finds Researchers in the US are calling for changes to building codes, following a study that suggests mandatory flame retardants for foam insulation are not only harmful to human health and the environment, but also don't reduce fire risk in ... » Read More

23/11/2012 Ultrasonic flowmeter breaks new measurement barriers What's claimed to be the first ultrasonic flowmeter to offer custody-transfer accuracy and minimal maintenance requirements has been launched by Siemens. » Read More

23/11/2012 Operator asset care seminar to lay secrets bare A one day seminar the promises to explore the background to Operator Asset Care (OAC), using the real life experiences of production and manufacturing directors, is to be staged by MCP on 7 February 2013. » Read More

22/11/2012 Valveforce keeps Chinese balloon dipping plant on song Dipping plant specialist Greenbrook is reporting that Valveforce valves are proving robust and reliable on a new balloon dipping plant supplied to China. » Read More

22/11/2012 Free e-book covers LNG, oil and gas control applications Yokogawa has published a 70-page, free to download e-book that outlines use of its novel VigilantPlant automation concept for safe and reliable plant operations in the oil and gas industry. » Read More

21/11/2012 PM visits forklift factory in Northern Ireland Prime minister David Cameron visited the Northern Irish forklift manufacturing site of US-owned Nacco Materials Handling Group yesterday (20 November) and praised the factory for its ability to compete and succeed in "the global race". » Read More

20/11/2012 High efficiency motors specified for €21.5m Spanish water plant High efficiency motors are delivering energy savings on 100 pumps and blowers – some up to 160kW – at a major new wastewater treatment plant, commissioned by Spanish water firm Canal de Isabel II. » Read More

20/11/2012 First national apprenticeship champion is crowned BAE Systems manufacturing engineer Jenny Westworth (pictured) has been crowned the first ever national Apprenticeship Champion of the Year. » Read More