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16/04/2013 Yokogawa merges UK instrument and control firms Yokogawa Electric Corp has announced that its UK subsidiary Yokogawa Measurement Technologies has merged with group company Yokogawa United Kingdom and is now trading as Yokogawa Measurement Technologies. » Read More

15/04/2013 New aircraft carriers lighting uses composites BVT Surface Fleet Solutions, which is building two of the world's largest aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy, has specified Spelsberg's polycarbonate Abox junction boxes, instead of traditional metal. » Read More

15/04/2013 Bürkert valves help BBC science presenter with 360 degree swing BBC science show Bang Goes the Theory, which recently tested the childhood quandary over whether or not it is possible to push someone over 360 degrees on a park swing, was helped by valve specialist Bürkert. » Read More

12/04/2013 Technip selects Fisher valves for Algiers Refinery upgrade Technip has selected Emerson Process Management as the main supplier of control valves for the ageing Algiers Refinery rehabilitation and adaptation project. » Read More

11/04/2013 ODVA forms machinery special interest group Open, interoperable automation technologies pressure group ODVA is forming a special interest group for machine information. » Read More

11/04/2013 Dublin Bay wastewater treatment works cuts maintenance costs Maintenance costs and out of service hours of a critical pumping application at a Dublin Bay wastewater treatment works have been slashed by using a variable-speed drive's anti-ragging routine. » Read More

10/04/2013 Cat Pumps remove labels on Coors keg cleaning line Molson Coors brewery in Alton is reporting a solution to the problem of removing identification labels from beer kegs – using high pressure positive displacement plunger pumps on its automated keg cleaning lines. » Read More

09/04/2013 White Paper highlights steam cost and efficiency savings A new White Paper from Spirax Sarco shows how steam users can save money and prevent a wide range of potential problems through an effective water treatment regime. » Read More

08/04/2013 ABB wins another $30 million oil and gas order in Australia ABB has been appointed the main electrical contractor (MEC) for a new floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel at the Ichthys oil and gas field in the Timor Sea off Western Australia. » Read More

05/04/2013 Cyprus desalination plant to be served by Flowserve Pumps specialist Flowserve has received a multi-million dollar order from MN Larnaca Desalination to provide a pump package and energy recovery package to be used at a 15.9 million gallons/day seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination ... » Read More

04/04/2013 Willetts announces £85m research capital fund Advanced materials, grid-scale energy storage, and robotics and autonomous systems are to get a total of £85 million R&D funding (£30m, £30m and £25m respectively). » Read More

04/04/2013 ABB to build $10m e-houses worth for Oz ammonium nitrate plant ABB has been awarded a contract worth $10 million, by Técnicas Reunidas for the electrical balance of plant (eBoP) for a new ammonium nitrate plant in the Burrup peninsula in Australia. » Read More

03/04/2013 Plastic recycler goes greener, swaps to ac drives Maintenance costs have apparently been slashed at an unnamed plastic recycling plant by replacing the dc drive on its compounder with a variable speed ac unit. » Read More

03/04/2013 Warm words about manufacturing not enough – IMechE survey The government is failing to promote UK manufacturing and remains more committed to the financial sector than UK industry, according to a poll commissioned by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. » Read More

02/04/2013 Sellafield medical isotope plant decommissioned Sellafield has successfully decommissioned a long-redundant facility dating from the 1950s, built to manufacture radioactive sources for the medical industry to treat cancers. » Read More

28/03/2013 Smart wireless enables instrumentation upgrade in Czech Republic RWE Gas Storage says it is now maximising the capacity of its Dolní Dunajovice underground gas storage facility in the Czech Republic, thanks to Emerson Process Management's smart wireless technology. » Read More

28/03/2013 SunGift completes 250kWp solar PV array for Numatic International Renewable energy specialist SunGift Solar has completed a flagship 250kW solar PV system for Numatic International, manufacturer of the Henry vacuum cleaner. » Read More

27/03/2013 Hospital faces fine for cutting back water treatment Deaths from Legionnaires' disease at Basildon Hospital show that cutbacks on water treatment programme to save money, together with a complacent attitude, can have tragic consequences. » Read More

27/03/2013 Heat exchanger monitor cuts costs, improves performance An integrated heat exchanger monitoring system, designed to detect accelerated fouling rates and to suggest when cleaning is required, has been unveiled by Emerson Process Management. » Read More

26/03/2013 Brammer claims £100m cost savings for UK manufacturing MRO (maintenance, repair and overhaul) products and services specialist Brammer says it has now enabled more than £100 million in cost savings for its customers in less than five years. » Read More

26/03/2013 Chocolate maker moves machinery on thin air Easter egg and confectionery manufacturer Kinnerton is expanding and altering its production lines in the pre-Easter rush with little effort by moving machinery around on air skates. » Read More

25/03/2013 ABB wins Environmental Contribution of the Year Award ABB has won the Environmental Contribution of the Year award at the Pump Industry Awards for a pump control system, developed with partner Halcyon Drives, that is saving £68,000 a year on energy costs for Tata Steel. » Read More

22/03/2013 Planetary drives deliver more profit on mobile shredder plant Whitham Mills Engineering is reporting reduced eight and improved profitability since specifying a Brevini Power Transmission planetary drive for its latest commercial mobile shredder. » Read More

21/03/2013 ABB wins $15m oil and gas electricals order in Australia ABB has been appointed the main electrical contractor for a new semi-submersible CPF (central processing facility) at the Ichthys oil and gas field in the Timor Sea off Western Australia. » Read More

20/03/2013 CHEP slashes energy and emissions on new air approach Pallet and container services giant CHEP has achieved massive savings since installing energy-efficient Atlas Copco compressors at its pallet production and repair sites in the UK. » Read More