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07/06/2012 Legionnaires outbreak may have been avoidable Another regrettable death from Legionnaires' disease indicates that poor maintenance regimes or complacency are still too prevalent, according to B&ES (the Building & Engineering Services Association). » Read More

07/06/2012 Anglian Water selects ZS blowers for wastewater treatment Anglian Water has chosen Atlas Copco's low-pressure ZS blowers to supply air to aeration diffusers at four of its wastewater treatment re-development sites. » Read More

06/06/2012 Science Museum and QE Prize celebrate Queen’s Diamond Jubilee A dozen of the most significant inventions from the past 60 years have been selected by the Science Museum and the Royal Academy of Engineering to honour The Queen's Diamond Jubilee. » Read More

06/06/2012 SITA UK fined £200,000 after worker crushed to death Recycling firm SITA UK Ltd has been hit with a £200,000 fine after a 21-year-old employee was crushed to death by a JCB at its Tipton paper baling site. » Read More

01/06/2012 Thorite control system speeds production at Flameproofings Flame retardant coatings manufacturer Flameproofings is reporting improved quality and cost reductions since securing Thorite to produce a system to integrate pump controls and run batch and level controls for two padder tanks that contain ... » Read More

30/05/2012 ABB wins $44m gearless mill drive order in Kazakhstan ABB has won an order worth $44 million to deliver three gearless mill drive systems (GMDs) for a new copper mine to be operated by Kazakhmys in south eastern Kazakhstan. » Read More

28/05/2012 Siemens doubles apprentice intake Siemens will double its apprentice intake to 160 from September 2012. » Read More

28/05/2012 Infrared heating improves composites quality at GKN Aerospace An infra-red heating system from Heraeus Noblelight is helping to ensure the quality of composite aerospace structures manufactured at the new GKN Aerospace facility at Western Approach, near Bristol. » Read More

25/05/2012 Full steam ahead for Power Museum’s only Marhsall engine The highlight of the Museum of Power, near Maldon, Essex – a Marshall 300hp vertical, triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine, manufactured by the Lilleshall Company – is now back on steam after nearly 50 years, thanks to design advice ... » Read More

24/05/2012 ABB-Dodge to show easy maintenance bearings at Hillhead 2012 ABB-Dodge will be showing its range of maintenance-friendly bearings at this year's International Quarrying and Recycling show, at Hillhead Quarry, 19—21 June. » Read More

23/05/2012 Drax speeds repairs with ProcessVue alarm management Engineers at Drax power station, in Selby, north Yorkshire, say they can identify alarm trends faster and more easily – and analyse the causes – since implementing MAC Solutions' ProcessVue alarm management system. » Read More

22/05/2012 Control Techniques Drives for Italian crane refurbishment Digital dc drives and associated equipment, from Control Techniques, have been installed in the latest phase of crane upgrades in La Spezia Container Terminal (LSCT) in northern Italy. » Read More

22/05/2012 Rotterdam terminal cuts fuel costs on Hyster ReachStacker Barge Center Waalhaven, a container terminal in Rotterdam, received such fuel cost reductions from its a new Hyster ReachStacker that the Waalhaven Group has placed another order for a new Hyster ReachStacker and an empty container handler ... » Read More

21/05/2012 Sci-fi ballbot a reality, thanks to motion control technology A team of Swiss students has turned science-fiction into reality by developing the world's first high agility, high stability 'ballbot'. » Read More

21/05/2012 PM praises Siemens growth and employment commitment Prime Minister David Cameron praised Siemens commitment to investment and boosting skills through its apprenticeship programme, during a visit to the firm's Princess Road site in Manchester last week (17 May 2012).. » Read More

16/05/2012 Elgin platform gas leak plugged following well intervention Total has today (May 16, 2012) announced that its well intervention operation, started yesterday, has stopped the G4 well leak on the Elgin complex, 240km from Aberdeen in the North Sea. » Read More

16/05/2012 Baroness lifts the lid on new manufacturing plant A new £1.2 million manufacturing plant that is already delivering a boost to Liverpool's economy was opened yesterday (15 May 2012) by Business Minister Baroness Wilcox. » Read More

16/05/2012 Quality award counts for Brammer in Ireland Brammer in Ireland, part of the maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) products and services group that looks after Diageo and Kraft Foods, is celebrating the award of an international quality standard. » Read More

15/05/2012 High efficiency water filter in demand for IPS St Helens water filtration firm Industrial Purification Systems (IPS) has more than doubled its manufacturing to meet demand for its process water improvement technology. » Read More

15/05/2012 NSK’s long life EP steel saves €38,400 on Sendzimir steel mill NSK's extra long life EP steel is apparently saving an unnamed operator of a Sendzimir mill €38,400 annually, by overcoming a problem of inner ring wear on mill bearings. » Read More

14/05/2012 EEMUA certifies design engineers for hazardous areas EEMUA CompEx – the competency scheme for engineers and technicians involved in hazardous area working to IEC 'Ex' standards – has extended its scheme for engineers responsible for design and management in hazardous areas. » Read More

14/05/2012 Drives play major part with Royal Shakespeare Company The four-year, £112 million transformation of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, which includes automation of back-drop and scenery movements, as well as lighting arrays, involved installing 100 ac drives and servo ... » Read More

11/05/2012 ABB supports Imperial carbon capture teaching facility ABB has invested close to £1 million and signed a 10-year deal with Imperial College London to support a new carbon capture pilot plant teaching facility. » Read More

11/05/2012 Baxter Manufacturing’s Rieti plant reports steam trap payback Italian healthcare firm Baxter Manufacturing is reporting a 12-month payback on GEM venturi orifice steam traps, installed at its Cittaducale, plant. » Read More

10/05/2012 £16 million funding boost announced for UK robotics UK research to develop smart machines that think for themselves gets a £16 million boost today, thanks to a partnership between government and industry. » Read More