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28/07/2014 Worker’s jaw shattered after Kent recycling firm neglects safety A Kent recycling firm has been fined £7,000 and ordered to pay £3,000 in costs after an employee had his jaw shattered into "pieces like cornflakes" when he was hit by a piece of plastic pipe ejected from a bandsaw. » Read More

28/07/2014 EEF appoints chief operating officer EEF, the manufacturers' organisation, has appointed Caroline Gumble to the new position of chief operating officer where she will be responsible for building its blossoming business services division. » Read More

25/07/2014 Advanced Propulsion Centre to locate hub at Warwick The Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) has selected the University of Warwick as the site for its hub location, supporting the 10-year, £1 billion industry and government commitment to the development of low carbon propulsion systems. » Read More

24/07/2014 Newtown Plastics smells success with VSD retrofit Mid Wales based Newtown Plastics is reporting saving nearly £2,000 a year in energy costs on one of its injection moulding machines since retrofitting an ABB variable-speed drive (VSD). » Read More

24/07/2014 Viridor clocks up 30 years of tyre support from Vacu-Lug Tyre company Vacu-Lug and waste management organisation Viridor have clocked up 30 years of working together, with Vacu-Lug providing tyre supply and service for Viridor's contract with the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority. » Read More

23/07/2014 Cummins Power Generation fined after decade of HAVS risks Cummins Power Generation, in Ramsgate, Kent has been ordered to pay nearly £70,000 in fines and costs after an employee was left with a severe long-term disability following prolonged working with vibrating machine tools. » Read More

23/07/2014 ECS gets RoSPA Gold for sixth year running ECS Engineering Services has been presented with the RoSPA Gold Award for Occupational Health and Safety – the sixth consecutive year it has achieved this accolade. » Read More

23/07/2014 Eriks publishes legislation-based PPE catalogue Plant maintenance and repair specialist Eriks UK has launched a PPE (personal protection equipment) catalogue that centres on relevant industrial legislation. » Read More

22/07/2014 British Sugar turns to Amarinth for syrup pumps British Sugar has taken delivery of bespoke designed centrifugal pumps from specialist Amarinth for its sugar production process at the Newark factory in Nottinghamshire. » Read More

22/07/2014 Sellafield sets up to demolish tallest historic chimney Sellafield is finalising plans to demolish an iconic 61-metre chimney that sits on top of a main 11-storey reprocessing plant at the site – making it the tallest historic structure at Europe's oldest nuclear plant. » Read More

22/07/2014 Engineering firm fined after workers suffer nerve damage SPS Aerostructures has been ordered to pay more than £190,000 in fines and costs for failing to protect its employees from the effects of vibration, after 24 workers were diagnosed with debilitating nerve conditions. » Read More

21/07/2014 New edition of EEMUA electrical Ex ATEX handbook EEMUA, the Engineering Equipment and Materials Users Association, has published the sixth edition of EEMUA Publication 186, a practitioner's handbook for explosive atmospheres. » Read More

18/07/2014 WEG proves massive dual-pinion ball mill drive Industrial electric motors specialist WEG has successfully tested low-speed synchronous motors driven by frequency inverters at up to a massive 250,000Nm shaft torque – for mills with dual pinions – at its plant in Brazil. » Read More

18/07/2014 Airbus fined £200,000 over worker’s death Aeroplane manufacturer Airbus has been fined £200,000 and ordered to pay £58,891 in costs following the death of an employee who was crushed between a tractor and a fertiliser spreader at the firm's plant in Broughton. » Read More

18/07/2014 BG Energy completes West Burton CCGT commissioning Commissioning of the ventilation, extraction and air handling equipment at EDF Energy's new 1,320MW CCGT (combined cycle gas turbine) power station at West Burton, Nottinghamshire, is now complete. » Read More

18/07/2014 Manufacturers support apprenticeships Sheffield-based Numill and Dorset based Superior Seals have thrown their weight behind a nationwide push to champion apprenticeships for small businesses by joining Apprenticemakers, a free nationwide peer-to-peer support community for ... » Read More

17/07/2014 Llwyn Onn WTW gets Mitsubishi DR treatment The £17 million Dee Valley Water's (DVW) Llwyn Onn, North Wales, water treatment works, which opened in March 2014, is controlled by a Mitsubishi Electric redundant Q series PLC, chosen for its reliability stats. » Read More

17/07/2014 Combine safety valves with bursting discs, urges Fike Fire, explosion and pressure relief systems specialist Fike UK is alerting plant engineers to the benefits of using bursting (rupture) discs with PRVs (pressure relief valves) in the process industries. » Read More

16/07/2014 Wolds smells secrets of success with peristaltic pumps Fragrances producer Wolds Manufacturing says that installing a Flexicon PF6 peristaltic filling machine has enabled capacity and sales growth, thanks to its rapid changeover capability. » Read More

16/07/2014 First in-house inverter drive from Atlas Copco Atlas Copco has launched its first in-house designed inverter drive, which will now be used throughout its GA 37-90 VSD range of compressors. » Read More

15/07/2014 Ashtead creates NDT centre of excellence: spends £1m Rental instruments specialist Ashtead Technology has invested £1 million in new NDT (non destructive testing) equipment in a bid to create an NDT Centre of Excellence. » Read More

15/07/2014 Teachers to receive engineering work experience A scheme to offer Stem teachers work placements with engineering and manufacturing organisations to help them better explain career opportunities to their students has been launched by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (ImechE). » Read More

15/07/2014 Historic nuclear fuel retrievals restarts at Sellafield The task of emptying canned fuel from the original Windscale fuel storage pond at Sellafield has restarted, following two years of work to refurbish a facility that repackages canned fuel into modern containers. » Read More

14/07/2014 Poor school careers advice deters future engineers, says IMechE UK pupils are receiving poor careers advice from teachers who lack understanding of business and industry, according to a new poll by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE). » Read More

14/07/2014 Government cuts spend on science, engineering and technology The UK government spent £10 billion on science, engineering and technology (SET) in 2012, a 1% decrease compared with 2011, and continuing the downward trend in SET expenditure since 2009. » Read More