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Bespoke IECEx and ATEX approved resistors

Resistor manufacturer Cressall has demonstrated its design and manufacturing capabilities by producing specialist neutral earthing resistors (NERs) suitable for use in explosive atmospheres.

The NERs meet the international IECEx and European ATEX specifications and allow generator manufacturers and end users to protect distributed generation systems. This ensures regulatory compliance and peace of mind for companies operating in explosive environments. (Read More)

BSRIA comments on A Level results

BSRIA has commented on the country’s A Level results.

Skilled engineering graduates are essential to BSRIA and the industry workforce of tomorrow. The construction sector’s demand forsuitable skilled workers is paramount. However, it’s clear that A Levels, TechBaccprogrammes and apprenticeships are all vital. (Read More)

SPM Instrument UK Hosts International Management Meeting

On the 20th to 22nd of June, Manchester based condition monitoring specialist SPM Instrument UK Ltd. hosted a meeting with the CEO of SPM International and Managing Directors of its fourteen subsidiaries in Europe, USA, Singapore, and India.

The biannual SPM Management meeting is an integral component of the SPM International corporate structure and an important part in setting the course for the further development (Read More)

Dialight Introduces High Efficiency Zone 1 SafeSite® High Bay

New Certification Allows for Use in New Hazardous Environments in Europe, Middle East, and Australia

Farmingdale, NJ (June 8, 2016) – Dialight (LSE: DIA.L), the global leader in LED lighting technology, today unveiled the first-everHigh Efficiency ATEX/IECEx Zone 1 SafeSite® High Bay. Each high bay feature Dialight’s latest world class in-house designed power supply and a full 10-year, (Read More)

New DVD training aid for Boom Lift operators.

The new ‘MEWPs Safety – Boom Lifts’ DVD is a comprehensive training aid for everyone involved in training Boom Lift operators.

The hazards involved with operating Boom Lifts (aka Cherry Pickers) are legendary in the construction and allied industries: being trapped against a structure; the machine tipping over; falling from the platform - to mention a few. YouTube has some pretty horrendous examples of the potential for disaster. (Read More)

Hoists And Cranes – The Captains Of Industry

The importance of an ever-expanding industrial world should not be underestimated. After all, long-term, sustained industrialisation is a key driver for economic development, a fact recognised by the world’s most important leaders.

It was no accident, for example, that President Obama made a personal appearance to open the planet’s largest industrial exhibition, Hannover Messe, earlier this year, becoming the first US president ever to do so. (Read More)

Arc Energy Resources Announces Acquisition Of CLG Engineering

Gloucestershire-based Arc Energy Resources, the weld overlay cladding and fabrication specialist, has acquired precision machining company CLG Engineering, based in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire.

Arc Energy Resources provides corrosion-resistant weld overlay cladding services to a variety of clients in industry sectors ranging from oil and gas to defence, power generation, petrochemical, water and nuclear. (Read More)

Unique DSEAR Area Classification & Explosion Risk Reduction Course - 6th-8th Sept 2016, Wrexham, UK

This 3-day course is designed to provide personnel with the skills to conduct or manage area classification and explosion risk assessment, ascertain plant explosion safety and compliance with ATEX 137 (DSEAR in the UK). (Read More)

Parker Releases New Air Driven Liquid Pump

Parker Autoclave Engineers, part of Parker Hannifin – the global leader in motion and control technologies, has released an innovative new air driven liquid pump, the AHL118.

A high volume, double-ended, double actinghigh pressure pump, the AHL118 is designed for use in oil and gas, chemical, industrial and research applications. (Read More)

Infrared Cameras for Monitoring Manufacturing Operations

FLIR Systems GF-Series infrared cameras are being used by chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical and many other manufacturing industries worldwide to ensure that existing air quality or internal systems for removing chemicals are functioning properly.

Regulations exist in most industrialized countries that specify thousands of inspection points around a manufacturing operation (Read More)