Industrial Plant & Equipment

Keeping the wheels turning

Nicholson has manufactured an
automatic conveyorised, reversible
turnover unit to feed train wheels of
up to 1t in weight and 900mm dia
into a hardness testing machine.

The unit
was
designed as
a complete
system wi

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Abb helps drive chinese tyre industry

ABB is supplying two
variable speed drives and
accompanying motors to
Rochdale-based Farrel, a
manufacturer of processing
equipment for the plastics
and rubber industries. The
drives will run Farrel’s
Intermix batch m

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EZ does it at Thames Water

Thames Water has installed
an EZstrip maintain-in-place
pump, from NOV Mono to
improve efficiency and cut
downtime at its Dorking
sewage treatment works.

Previous equipment that
transferred sludge from the
primary s

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Heavy duty pumps

Heavy duty canned motor pumps,
designed to be compliant with the
American Petroleum Industry
specification API 685 for
sealless centrifugal pumps,
are now available through
Michael Smith Engineers.

The Nikkiso-KSB AP

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Peristaltic hose pump

Convenience food
manufacturer, Greencore
Group, is reported to have
achieved significant savings
in downtime and repair costs
on the water treatment plant
at its Greencore Grocery site
in Selby, North Yorkshire,
thank

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Collaborating on ESDV integration

ABB is to collaborate with Dresser
Masoneilan on an integrated process
to monitor, test and manage
emergency shutdown valves (ESDV)
during conditions ranging from
normal plant operations to
abnormal situations. These va

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Pedal power

Due to their small dimensions, low
weight and high accuracy, Kaydon
Reali-Slim bearings have provided an
efficient solution for a high-tech
bicycle wheel that is known as the
Copenhagen Wheel.

The development enables

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Mini cam follower

Miniature cam followers KR-..-M
and the easy-mounting cam followers
KRM-..-PP are new to Findling
Waelzlager’s portfolio.

Available in steel and stainless steel
versions, they work in machine tools,
industrial robots

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Counterfeit awareness campaign

The World Bearing Association has
launched an awareness campaign to
inform about potential safety
hazards that arise from counterfeit
bearings. The campaign will reach
out to audiences via e-mails, website
banners, soci

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Time savings on a plate

William Harvey Hospital is
saving two weeks a year in
maintenance time by
switching its domestic hot
water supplies from shelland-
tube heat exchangers to
EasiHeat systems from Spirax
Sarco. Because they are based
on

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