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Once you’ve filled a drum or intermediate bulk container (IBC), how are you going to move it? Cornwall, UK-based Bespoke Handling Equipment (STS) has the answer.

Producing highly innovative materials handling products for numerous applications within the chemical, petrochemical, paints, inks, offshore and pharmaceutical industries among others, STS is enjoying ongoing growth despite the prevailing economic mood, even taking on new staff at a time when many others are shedding theirs. (Read More) 

Intertek opens licensed CompEx centre in Scotland

Intertek, a leading provider of quality and safety solutions to industries around the world, announces the opening of their new hazardous area competency validation centre in Grangemouth, Scotland.

Scotland has long been a strategic location for the oil and gas sector with many of the worlds leading energy brands, operating out of the region. The CompEx facility, which is currently Scotland’s only centre offering CompEx units Ex12 ‘Application Design Engineers’ and Ex11 Mechanical.

Talban Sohi, Director of Intertek’s UK operations said “ We are pleased to open this new competency validation centre in the heart of the oil and gas community, which joins Intertek’s facilities in our global network across more than 100 countries. Ensuring staff competency in hazardous locations, is key to our clients reducing (Read More)

Denso Products Chosen For New Scrabster Harbour Quay

R J McLeod have recently completed a £16.93M contract to replace the existing quay at Scrabster Harbour in the north of Scotland to provide a multi-function quay to serve oil and gas, renewables and fishing industries.

Several types of Winn & Coales Denso protective tapes were used in the total project.

The works included demolition of existing (Read More) 

Bifold, Official Partner Of The Marussia F1TM Team Have Developed Sophisticated Configurators To Make Valve Selection Effortless

Unique Valve and Manifold Configurators: With Bifold, you can use our unique online drag and drop Modular Manifold Configurator to design highly bespoke manifold systems effortlessly.

The manifold can be designed from the circuit sequence down to the orientation of individual modules to your (Read More)

Thermal Imaging for Predictive Maintenance and Fault Finding In Zone 1 Hazardous Areas

For general industry, the last ten years has seen a revolution in the power of thermal imaging cameras and a dramatic decline in the cost of thermal imaging cameras.

Cameras have reduced from shoulder mounted monstrosities to almost “pocket” size over the last 20 years, and they are usable for anyone who can operate a digital camera – and that means everyone. That is not to say that there (Read More)

Looking Forward To The Next 50 Years

Over the past decades, Aberdeen has grown confidently into its role as Europe’s capital of the oil and gas industry.

In the early days of the UK offshore industry in the 1970s and 80s, Aberdeen was one of the centres from which global companies made numerous North Sea oil and gas discoveries and then went on to develop one of the UK’s major industrial and commercial success stories. In recent years, the city has also transformed into a (Read More)

Functional Safety Engineer (TÜV Rheinland) Training Manchester, October 14-17.

Exloc Instruments UK Ltd was formed in 2012 to bring to the UK the success that Exloc Instruments Inc have been enjoying in North America for many years.

Based in the North of England, Exloc Instruments provide instrumentation products for the process industry, specialising in the supply of interfacing, display and alarm solutions. (Read More)

GexCon Has A Staff Of Highly Qualified Personnel, Which Can Offer Safety Services For All Types Of Installations

where flammable or hazardous materials are handled or present a danger, or where the consequence of gas dispersion, fire, explosion including civil contingency and emergency planning needs advanced modelling.

Having the legacy of being owned by a highly respected research institute and providing solutions to understanding (Read More)

Dangerous Substance Control Ltd (DSC-Ltd) are pleased to announce the latest developments in their already well established: DSEAR with a Bang - training programme.

After a very successful period of presenting 2, 3 and 4 hour DSEAR awareness training lectures, the company made the decision to further expand the programme to include a new 7 hour lecture day, based on their already popular IOSH Accredited and Certified training course.

The new 7 hour lecture day does not include (Read More)

Ischia Solutions Limited and the ExAMS Asset Management System

ExAMS is an Asset, System and Location management software which is specifically tailored to hazardous area applications. It allows a completely paperless work flow with all predefined ATEX inspections to BS60079-17-2007. The system can also be used for non-hazardous area applications and we are currently developing the system for use with mechanical assets.

The flexible, innovative software is designed by CompEx engineers for engineers to carry out Ex Inspections. (Read More)