Thermal Fluid Specialist Puts Food-Grade Oil On The Menu
Thermal oil specialist Global Heat Transfer is calling for the food and pharmaceutical industries to ensure they use compliant food-grade (FG) thermal fluids in heat transfer applications.
The company believes that, although the use of FG fluids is a regulatory requirement imposed by several bodies including the FDA and NSF, it is one that many manufacturers are entirely unaware of. (Read More)
Halifax Fan Ltd Reports Two Record Years.
While the global economy is still struggling and major UK high street chains are failing, one Yorkshire based traditional engineering company reports two bumper years.
Halifax Fan Ltd, based in Brighouse enjoyed sales growth of 30% in 2000/11 and followed that up with a record 43% growth over the last twelve months.
Established in 1965 to serve the local (Read More)
CorDEX Instruments, the UK manufacturer of instrumentation and equipment for hazardous environments, is introducing a new intrinsically safe product at MAINTEC 2013 that is a well suited for anyone involved in predictive maintenance.
It takes a proven method of inspection and not only extends its scope of application into explosive environments but also adds in RFID technology so that findings can be tagged to a location and trends easily documented. (Read More)
Hazardous Area Certified Enclosures - A Solution For Every Application
Pepperl+Fuchs the world’s leading manufacturer of intrinsically safe explosion protection and electronic sensors acquired UK based Walsall Ltd to increase expertise and capacity in the manufacture of mechanical explosion protection products for use in hazardous areas and harsh environments.
Walsall Ltd had over one hundred years of UK heritage dating back to the early days of Walsall Conduits PLC, (Read More)
Inductive sensors are widely used to measure position or speed, especially in harsh environments. However, to many engineers, inductive sensor terminology and techniques can be confusing. Mark Howard of Zettlex explains the various types and operating principles, as well as their consequent strengths and weaknesses.
Inductive position and speed sensors come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes and designs. All inductive sensors can be said to work on transformer principles and they all use (Read More)
PFA Linings Aid Safe Transport Of Hazardous Liquids
PFA lined pumps and valves fixed to road and rail tankers and wagons are helping to ensure the safety of European roads, railways and waterways as the amount of dangerous liquids being carried increases.
The standard DIN EN 14432, “Tanks for the carriage of dangerous goods – equipment for tanks for the carriage of liquid chemical products – product shut-off and gas exchange valves” has now been in force since January 2011 and all equipment must now adhere to this European standard. (Read More)
HAZEX & MAINTEC 2013 – MASSES TO SEE
With major new show features, plus a growing HAZEX area, there’s a lot for engineers working in hazardous environments to see at easyFairs MAINTEC 2013, which returns to the NEC in Birmingham on 5-7 March 2013.
MAINTEC Professional Conference
New for 2013 is the MAINTEC Professional Conference. Run throughout the show, this will provide an opportunity for all those involved in plant or facilities maintenance to (Read More)
Bifold provide the widest range of relief valves for pneumatic and hydraulic instrument applications with pressures ranging from 7 to 1300 bar.
Our relief valves are suitable for safety applications. Many other relief valves of this type on the market, fail to perform the correct safety function required. (Read More)
JDN Hoists Provide 200 Tonne Handling Capacity On Offshore Rig
Four J D Neuhaus type EH50 air operated monorail hoists have been supplied and mounted by Westcon Løfteteknikk AS of Bergen to the Maersk offshore rig Guardian.
These products have been specified for the synchronised lifting and handling of an 18.3/4” 15,000psi BOP unit before and after drilling operations. Two hoists are each mounted on twin parallel overhead rails, with each hoist providing 50 tonne load and 20 metre lift capacities for between deck operations. (Read More)
Government to Charge Businesses’ £124hr For Health And Safety Fails.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has recently confirmed that its cost recovery scheme, Fee for Intervention (FFI), will start on 1 October 2012, meaning that business owners need to start taking a more pro-active approach now.
Fee for Intervention (FFI) aims to recover costs from those who break health and safety laws for the time and effort HSE spends helping to put matters right such as, investigating, writing reports and taking enforcement action. (Read More)
