COULD A ventilation-based cooling system be the key to keeping your factory fully operational all year round? According to Ecocooling, installation of ventilation based evaporative cooling can mitigate the risk of spreading COVID-19 whilst keeping staff and machinery cool.
SHANNON GLOBAL Energy Solutions, a provider, designer and maker of reusable thermal and acoustic insulation, has developed the Shannon Steam Heat Kits to prevent freezing and/or maintain fluid viscosity for refineries, chemical plants, shipping, food and beverage and many other industrial applications.
AS THE body behind the national standard of Thorough Examinations, CFTS is urging those who own and use work equipment to book upcoming inspections as detailed in their existing maintenance schedules.
UK MOTION specialist, Trio Motion Technology, is expanding the capability of its motion-based machine solution to integrate with additional sensors, relays and output devices.
THE SCHMERSAL Group now offers its customers in UK and Ireland a new webshop selling components for functional machine safety. The company has linked its popular and comprehensive online catalogue to an automated ordering and shipping process, creating a convenient and secure purchasing tool that is available to customers around the clock after registration.
IN TODAY’S manufacturing facilities it’s more important than ever to ensure employees have the essential tools and knowledge to follow good hand hygiene procedures. Frequent and proper handwashing is vital in keeping workers safe and healthy, and in slowing the spread of viruses in the workplace.
THE NATIONAL Hardhat Recycling Scheme, was set up three years ago by Yes, Recycling to bypass traditional waste disposal routes, thereby ensuring end-of-life hats could go directly into reprocessing. Yes, Recycling then built a bespoke recycling capability at its Buckinghamshire facility specifically to recycle hard hats.
EPIDEMICS AND pandemics can leave large enterprises that employ and receive thousands of people vulnerable to widespread infection and business interruptions. Without the right entry protocols in place, an employee who has symptoms of an infectious disease, such as a fever, could enter a facility and put the entire workforce at risk of exposure.
AGAINST A traumatic background of the Covid-19 pandemic and Brexit worries, the subcontract manufacturing market showed some resilience – with the Contract Manufacturing Index (CMI) ending the year 1% up on the final quarter of 2019. The index for the final quarter of 2020 (Q4) was 67, compared to 66 for Q4 2019.
BACK FOR 2021, Pulsar Instruments will again be delivering its popular one-day Noise at Work courses in a safe face-to-face classroom environment.
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