Plant, Process and Control
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Support for burner project

Babcock Wanson is investing for the future by launching the DEMOXYA research project in collaboration with the Pprime Institute and Bertin Technologies. Babcock Wanson and Bertin Technologies are subsidiaries of the CNIM Group.

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Full steam ahead

It’s full steam ahead at one of the UK’s leading industrial boiler and furnace companies following a management buyout supported by £750,000 of funding to ensure the survival of the historic business.

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Intelligent cameras

At this year’s VISION exhibition, Vision Components showcased a new generation of intelligent cameras with innovative hardware and software.

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Stable manufacturing environment

The list of manufacturing processes that can benefit from being conducted in a controlled environment, or cleanroom, is ever growing, extending well beyond the traditional areas such as pharmaceutical and life sciences. 

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Clear solutions

Clear packaging and films are dream materials for food and FMCG manufacturers, but ever-more transparent and reflective packaging can pose nightmares for the production engineers tasked with detecting them accurately and reliably with optical sensors. SICK’s TranspaTect photoelectric distance sensor offers a solution.

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Tanks take it lying down

Niplast has supplied two storage tanks to Suretank, manufacturer of Cargo Carrying Units for the offshore oil and gas Industry. They will be used to store sodium bromide and hydrochloric acid and were commissioned in polypropylene due to the corrosive nature of the chemicals.

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Pumps picked for paper plant

Palm Papers, a German company with seven paper mills across Europe, has recently built a new plant in Kings Lynn. The total pump infrastructure in the building – heating, cooling, water supply and sanitation – has been supplied by Wilo in a project valued at about €400,000.

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Designed for linear motion systems

Linear bearings have been facilitating linear motion almost since the dawn of time – in a crude form, early man used rows of logs to transport heavy loads, removing the last log and transporting it to the front as the load moved along the ground. Although modern linear ball guide designs are somewhat more advanced, it doesn’t mean they are without constraints, explains Christopher Rees, sales director at HepcoMotion

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Asset tracking app

Air conditioning provider, Building & Maintenance Services (BMS), has implemented Real Asset Management’s (RAM) asset tracking mobile app to help improve the accuracy and management of the company’s asset register.

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Noise solution

Max Bichler and Christian Roth, of SKF QTC in Austria, explain how noise analysis – on a newly developed test rig – can help select the optimum bearing lubricant

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