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22/07/2021 The Great Northern Distillery upgrades cooling system ICS Cool Energy delivered efficiency and sustainability focused enhancements to the cooling systems at the Great Northern Distillery in Dundalk, Co. Louth in Ireland. » Read More

22/07/2021 Wolseley Pipe launches new suite of eBusiness solutions Specialist merchant Wolseley Pipe has launched a range of new eBusiness tools to modernise business processes and improve efficiency for commercial heating and plumbing businesses, M&E contractors and building services engineers. » Read More

21/07/2021 Gas supplier Cadent publishes ‘Green Print Report’ on transition to low-carbon ... Cadent, the UK's largest gas distribution company, has released a report about the transition to low-carbon domestic heating in the UK. Green Print - Future Heat for Everyone: draws together technical, consumer and economic considerations ... » Read More

20/07/2021 Steel plant saves around €70,000 with spherical roller bearings from NSK For the past four years a hot rolling mill at a steel plant in Spain had been experiencing unexpectedly short bearing life, leading to costly production stoppages. As a result, the plant worked closely with the technical department at ... » Read More

20/07/2021 World’s first hybrid-powered daughter craft to be built in UK The world’s first hybrid daughter craft vessels designed to support the offshore wind market are to be built in the UK through a new multi-million pound deal. » Read More

19/07/2021 Tris UK oil cleaning system reduces machine breakdowns at McAlpine Plumbing product manufacturer McAlpine is saving tens of thousands of pounds every year by preventing breakdowns of injection moulding machines, thanks to oil management specialist, Tris UK. » Read More

19/07/2021 SKF publishes handbook on remote industrial maintenance SKF has published a handbook to help organisations through the process of introducing remote industrial maintenance. » Read More

16/07/2021 Altra offers wind turbine brake condition monitoring system Altra Renewables has employed Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technology to provide smart monitoring of onshore wind turbine braking systems, which improves turbine reliability while simultaneously increasing uptime. » Read More

16/07/2021 Virtual machine safety dashboard from SICK promises more machine uptime SICK Safety Machine Analytics is a simple new live data-collection service that makes machine safety systems transparent, so that events can be responded to rapidly, while longer-term analysis optimises maintenance and improves ... » Read More

15/07/2021 Sludge cake to liquid in minutes Yorkshire Water Knostrop is a large wastewater treatment plant servicing a growing population of 800,000 people. The decision was taken to rebuild the works with standard digestion and a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant. The contract ... » Read More

15/07/2021 SKF helps Ovako strengthen maintenance regime SKF has signed a new five-year service agreement that will help Swedish steelmaker Ovako further improve its preventive maintenance regime. » Read More

14/07/2021 Eaton offers hydraulic improvements for lorry loader manufacturer A load handling equipment manufacturer has switched to Eaton’s Walterscheid tube-fitting and forming technology in a demanding application involving high loads, elevated pressure and significant mechanical stress. The move has contributed ... » Read More

14/07/2021 Severn and ValvTechnologies form severe-service valve partnership Severn Glocon and ValvTechnologies, which specialise in innovative, high-end, severe-service valves, have reached a partnership agreement. » Read More

13/07/2021 Specialty Chemicals plant increases monomer production In 2018 GEO Specialty Chemicals opened a new production facility in Hythe (Southampton) aimed at enhancing and extending its existing capabilities, specifically for high-purity specialty monomers. The company develops and manufactures more ... » Read More

13/07/2021 Positek linear displacement sensors provide motorway structural monitoring A major UK-based structural health monitoring systems company were called in to urgently evaluate problematic expansion joints on a reinforced concrete motorway bridge. It required not just rapid delivery of several linear displacement ... » Read More

12/07/2021 Northwood accelerates investment in UK paper production Northwood Hygiene Products has made a number of substantial investments and is creating 30 new jobs at its headquarters in Telford to support further growth and meet demand for its range of Away-from-Home (AfH) professional paper hygiene ... » Read More

12/07/2021 Biodegradable degreaser launched New from Henkel is a sustainable, eco-friendly cleaner and degreaser whose wide scope of application makes it cost-effective, according to the manufacturer. » Read More

09/07/2021 New JV launches smart herbicide spraying A 50:50 joint venture (JV) between Bosch and BASF Digital Farming to globally market and sell smart farming technologies from a single source has now received approval by merger control authorities. Headquarters are in Cologne, Germany and ... » Read More

09/07/2021 Pipe freezing kit removes draining time Companies facing system downtime can drastically reduce pipe and valve repair and maintenance costs with Accu-Freeze, available from the Pipestoppers division of Huntingdon Fusion Techniques. Many companies may have pipework systems such ... » Read More

08/07/2021 FEV develops Level 4 automated driving functions for Tragger electric utility ... FEV Turkey engineers have developed automated driving functions for Tragger, a new generation of battery electric service vehicles, which are aimed at cargo and people transportation in various commercial and industrial settings. ... » Read More

07/07/2021 Veolia optimises lighting for one of the biggest acute hospital trusts As part of the £4 million energy performance contract with United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT), Veolia has upgraded lighting at Lincoln County Hospital, Pilgrim Hospital in Boston, and Grantham and District Hospital. » Read More

07/07/2021 Shell acquires MachineMax Shell has become the sole owner of MachineMax, acquiring the stakes held by MachineMax’ s two other investors - BCG Digital Ventures and B Capital Group – as well as the company’s two founders. » Read More

06/07/2021 Retrofittable leak detector launched An innovative optical sensor from Freudenberg Sealing Technologies enables the early detection of leaks in industrial plants. The “LeaCo” monitoring system is said to be easy to install and offers a particularly good solution for ... » Read More

06/07/2021 Salomix SSF cuts the energy bill by more than 60% A Swedish manufacturer of packaging cartons and liquid cartons runs agitators in several storage towers. The power consumption of one of the installed agitators with a 75kW motor was high. The mill was facing high power consumption and ... » Read More

05/07/2021 HSB reports 100% increase in operational plant fire claims in 2020 HSB, the specialist engineering and technology insurer, saw UK construction plant fire claims double in 2020. » Read More