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19/02/2010 Big guns line up for Big Bang AstraZeneca, BAE Systems, Shell and Siemens are leading sponsorship of this year's Big Bang young scientists' and engineers' fair, to be held in Manchester from 11 to 13 March. » Read More

18/02/2010 JCB donates $150,000 worth of diggers to Haiti disaster JCB has donated diggers worth $150,000 to help the disaster relief effort in Haiti, following the devastating earthquake, believed to have killed hundreds of thousands of people. » Read More

17/02/2010 Jaguar saves 26% energy from air audits Jaguar in the West Midlands reckons it has reduced air power consumption across its sites by 26% and achieved a two-year payback, following energy audits by CompAir. » Read More

16/02/2010 There's snow business like quick gearbox repair for bakers Northern Foods, one of the UK's largest food producers, was kept running during the worst of the recent snow, thanks to a rapid repair on an obsolete sealed motor gearbox at its Gunstones bakery in Sheffield. » Read More

15/02/2010 Mechanical booster gives green vacuum Mechanical booster pumps, which are to replace steam ejectors on the chemical vapour infiltration process for a European high temperature materials manufacturer, will lead to cost savings. » Read More

12/02/2010 Upgraded Wombourne McCain plant is oven ready for action McCain's potato specialities production site at Wombourne has been successfully updated, with new washing and de-stoning equipment, and remaining plant moved and reinstalled. » Read More

11/02/2010 Thorp nuclear plant selects Worcester Engineers at the Thorp nuclear reprocessing plant say they chose Worcester F911 top-entry cartridge valves for a medium active salt-free evaporator (MASFE) installation, because of their compact design and ease of in-line maintenance. » Read More

10/02/2010 First total carbon offset red diesel Crown Oil UK says its new red diesel for the construction, utility, plant and rail industries is now 100% carbon offset. » Read More

09/02/2010 Scottish Water ramps up reliability with motors retrofit Scottish Water says it has improved reliability on three large sludge pumps at its Laighpark waste water treatment plant since replacing ageing dc pump drive motors with high efficiency ac motors and drives from Weg. » Read More

08/02/2010 Manchester Airport flies on ultrasonics Manchester Airport's plant engineers say that accuracy is now flying on their critical API hydrocarbon separation unit, since installing Pulsar Duet ultrasonic open channel flow sensor-based measurement. » Read More

05/02/2010 Free software slashes pump maintenance for Severn Trent Severn Trent Water reports savings of up to œ2,400 a week on pump maintenance, since upgrading its control software - and for zero cost. » Read More

04/02/2010 Machinery directive Following the December 2009 meeting of the European Machinery Working Group in Brussels, » Read More

03/02/2010 Rail bearings FAG Industrial Services (F'IS), the maintenance and condition monitoring division of Schaeffler, is offering rail operators a rapid reconditioning service for its Tarol axle box bearings. » Read More

02/02/2010 Battery technology Low cost Lithium-Ion cell chemistry and a flexible battery management system have come out of the Red Lion project (Reduced cost Li-Ion), a two-year project involving Ricardo and QinetiQ, part-funded by the Department for Transport, under ... » Read More

01/02/2010 Offshore seals Bury-based safety seals maker Roxtec has signed a major deal to supply two massive semi-submersible oil drilling rigs, being built for off-shore specialist SeaDragon. » Read More

01/11/2009 Under 36? SOE wants you SOE is urging members under the age of 36 to get involved in the Young Engineers Forum to shape the future of the society. » Read More

01/11/2009 Surprise bio developments Prominent at this year's British Invention Show were sustainable bio-production processes. » Read More

01/11/2009 Technology funding The East Midlands Development Agency has awarded T-mac Technologies £190,000 of funding to incorporate building management into its energy management system and to develop a new micro unit with wireless sensor technology. » Read More

01/11/2009 Sustainable biofuel Aston University in Birmingham is involved in a £3.4 million research project that promises to transform organic residues from existing biofuel production into a renewable, sustainable biofuel. » Read More

01/11/2009 Piezo plant upgrade Condition monitoring specialist Sensonics has helped upgrade turbine supervisory and vibration monitoring at the Uskmouth coal fired power station in Newport, South Wales. » Read More

01/11/2009 It’s in the pipeline A new type of flow-based pipeline protection system (PPS) for the Gjøa field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea (which is due to start exporting gas next year) is expected to lead to significant savings in pipeline costs – due to ... » Read More

01/11/2009 Pump precision is tasty St Helens-based Lea Green Foods reports that a peristaltic pump from Watson-Marlow Pumps is accurately and hygienically dosing oil into vegetable trays to make pastes and purees. » Read More

01/11/2009 Moon shot History was made on Friday 9 October when NASA sent a 2,200kg Centaur rocket stage hurtling into the far side of the surface of the moon, followed by an unmanned spacecraft containing an array of sensors, including an infrared camera to ... » Read More

01/11/2009 Sustainable power protection Electrical engineering firm BE White and solar specialist Solarcentury say they have met new French UTE (Union Technique de I'Electricité) regulations for photovoltaic generators by developing functional earth and surge protectors. » Read More

01/11/2009 Functional safety ABB has released a technical guide to functional safety, available as a free PDF. » Read More