Plant, Process and Control
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Claret and blue

As part of the used forktruck service
offered by Grant Handling,Matthew
Smith, director of CRM and West
Ham fan, asked for the truck to come
in his club’s classic claret and blue
colours, which Grant Handling sales
mana

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Hybrid bearings

Visitors to the igus stand will see new
additions to the firm’s maintenancefree
polymer bearing ranges, which
include iglidur plain bearings, igubal
spherical bearings and DryLin linear
bearings. In addition, examples of

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Condensate recovery

ARI-Armaturen has supplied
CORsys, its new condensate
recovery system, to Kemira
Chemicals UK, a company
with customers in waterintensive
industries including
pulp and paper, chemicals
and pharmaceuticals.
David Tuff

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Savings for coatings firm

Subcontract coating PICKED BY PACKER
specialist, Northpoint, is
achieving process efficiency
gains and energy reduction
benefits as the result of an
oven refurbishment
programme – at the heart of
which is the latest te

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Escaping air:Major drain on resources

Escaping air is often the biggest single source of wasted
energy associated with a compressed air system, but the
problem does not always stem from faulty piping, fittings
and joints. Inefficient condensate drains can also

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Network matters

A poorly designed compressed air
distribution system will lead to high energy bills,
low productivity and poor system performance.

Here Ray Cave of Atlas Copco Compressors
discusses how to ensure that you have designed

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Efficient motors for air power

Unified worldwide efficiency classifications for low voltage
three-phase asynchronous motors are being introduced as
part of an international effort to increase energy efficiency.

HPC Compressed Air Systems reports that

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Beware the hidden costs

Compressed air can typically account for about 10% of total
electricity costs for a business.Andy Jones, general manager
of Mattei, considers ways to address this and suggests
where to turn for financial aid if an upgrade

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New air lines for glass firm

Teseo UK’s extruded aluminium
compressed air delivery pipework is
installed at Village Glass’ vast factory
in Witham, Essex.

The company recently moved from
three separate units into one major
premises and
needed a n

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Golden milestone celebrated

John Guest manufactures and
develops its products entirely in
the UK and this year celebrates
its 50th anniversary.

Its founder, the late John Guest,
was responsible for the Speedfit
push-in fitting.

John Guest has

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