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19/11/2014 Unguarded danger at East Yorkshire firm A chemical company in East Yorkshire has been fined a total of £28,000 and ordered to pay £1,813 in costs after an employee lost the ends of three fingers in an unguarded part of a machine collecting calcium oxide dust. » Read More

18/11/2014 ABB e-book offers best motors maintenance tips ABB has published an e-book that reveals the most common causes of failure and offers tips on how to resolve them. » Read More

14/11/2014 Warning over UK’s poor automation record The UK's failure to embrace the benefits of new technology and 'robotics' has seen it fall behind its European neighbours and contributed to factories closing and jobs being lost, according to Tony Hague (pictured), managing director at PP ... » Read More

14/11/2014 Campaign to cut work cancer deaths launched An industry-wide campaign to cut the number of deaths from occupational cancer has been launched. » Read More

14/11/2014 ‘Industry wastes £1.5bn annually on outdated energy sources’ The British industrial sector wastes £1.43 billion year by using outdated off-mains energy sources, according to a report from liquefied petroleum gas (lpg) supplier Flogas. » Read More

13/11/2014 TÜV SÜD warns machinery makers to watch wireless Product compliance specialist TÜV SÜD Product Service is warning manufacturers integrating wireless modules into their products that they may be selling non-compliant equipment. » Read More

13/11/2014 Sawmill selects Saxlund for biomass combustion Swedish sawmill Hilmer Anderson has selected bioenergy specialist Saxlund to provide fuel handling and biomass combustion technology for its latest 12MW hot-water boiler project. » Read More

12/11/2014 Portable infrared gas detector shines for oil and gas industry Gas detection specialist Crowcon has added the Gas-Pro IR infrared sensor to its Gas-Pro range, to cover methane, pentane and propane. » Read More

11/11/2014 Rapid HV rotor repair saves Italian refinery downtime When recent maintenance checks on a high voltage 60MW generator at a large unnamed Italian oil refinery signalled a potential rotor earth fault, Sulzer prioritised repairs and had the plant back up within eight weeks. » Read More

11/11/2014 WEG launches world’s most energy-efficient flameproof motor Automation and control technology firm WEG is launching its W22Xd super premium efficiency range of hazardous area motors – said to be the world's most energy efficient flameproof motors. » Read More

10/11/2014 Energy providers launch flexible renewable energy offer LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) supplier AvantiGas and renewable energy technologies specialist Duncan Renewables have partnered to launch AvantiRenewables, a joint venture supplying multi-fuel energy solutions. » Read More

10/11/2014 Smurfit Kappa saves £60,000 on energy with ABB drives Food packaging manufacturer Smurfit Kappa reckons it will cut £60,000 from its energy bill following the installation of ABB variable speed drives (VSDs) on its shredder fans. » Read More

08/11/2014 Emerson launches process reliability management service Emerson is launching a process reliability management consulting service, which, it says, could save global companies more than $50 billion a year in costs while also increasing capacity by more than 5%. » Read More

07/11/2014 Fairfield General Hospital cuts carbon with Cogenco CHP Fairfield General Hospital, in Bury, Greater Manchester, is to cut carbon emissions by some 700 tonnes per year, following the installation of a new CHP (combined heat and power) plant, supplied and commissioned by Cogenco. » Read More

05/11/2014 Vector Aerospace fined £50,000 after workers’ health suffers Vector Aerospace International has been fined £50,000 plus £2,514 costs after 13 employees were diagnosed with varying degrees of diagnosed with HAVS (hand arm vibration syndrome). » Read More

05/11/2014 Manufacturing Champions Awards shortlist revealed The shortlist for Works Management's Manufacturing Champions Awards has been revealed. View the full shortlist here » Read More

05/11/2014 Companies prosecuted for safety failings after worker crushed Two Derbyshire companies have been fined for safety failings after a worker was crushed whilst dismantling steelwork. » Read More

04/11/2014 Sony sponsors Manufacturing Champions award Sony UK Technology Centre is sponsoring the Unsung Hero Award, part of Works Management's Manufacturing Champions awards to be held at the Midland Hotel, Manchester on December 4. » Read More

03/11/2014 UK parents support teens' engineering ambitions Parents wholeheartedly support the ambitions of thousands of talented teens to become the UK's future engineering talent, yet young people lack the support in schools needed to fulfil their career ambitions, according to research to mark ... » Read More

31/10/2014 Skellyton reports efficiency up on Archimedes pump refurb Scottish Water is reporting efficiency improvements following refurbishment of a pair of Archimedes screw pumps at its Skellyton site, near Hamilton, South Lanarkshire. » Read More

31/10/2014 Eriks offers ten tips to improve pump efficiency As energy efficiency continues as a top priority for for plants across the industrial landscape, understanding of pump energy consumption remains poor, according to maintenance service organisation Eriks. » Read More

31/10/2014 ABB speaks at first InstMC Functional Safety event ABB is sponsoring the first Functional Safety 2014 conference organised by the Institute of Measurement and Control, which runs next week (4—5 November 2014). » Read More

30/10/2014 Health and safety statistics show Britain could do better Injury and ill-health statistics released yesterday (29 October 2014) by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reveal that some 28.2 million working days were lost due to work related ill health or injury in 2013—14. » Read More

30/10/2014 Atlantic LNG rationalises plant alarms with Process Plant Computing LNG (liquefied natural gas) producer Atlantic is working with PPCL to streamline control room alarms across four LNG process trains at its Point Fortin plant, on the southwest coast of Trinidad. » Read More

30/10/2014 TÜV SÜD’s Safety Systems Technology goes it alone Safety Systems Technology (SST) is to operate as an independent company again, having bought itself out of TÜV SÜD, which acquired the company in 2010 alongside Laidler Associates. » Read More