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With a focus on comfort, performance and sustainability in its new products, the 2021 digital catalogue has all you need to know about Snickers Workwear, including new products that now use REPREVE, the world’s number one brand of   recycled performance fibre. 

Incorporating some of the most advanced technical features in safety shoe design for tradesmen and women.

Sporty looks, best-in-class materials technology and superior comfort are hallmarks of Solid Gear safety footwear. 2021 sees the launch of the Marshal GTX boot and the Enforcer GTX shoe that both integrate best-in-class materials for water protection and durability. 

Mitsubishi Electric and local system integrator AR Controls have provided a winning steel sheet press automation solution to Unipres, a major player in the global automotive industry. The upgrade allowed the car part manufacturer to significantly increase the uptime, productivity and energy efficiency of its transfer press, while also empowering operators to have greater insight and control over the production processes.

In its facility in Sunderland, Unipres produces around 560 tonnes of steel press-formed automotive components for global manufacturers, such as Nissan and Honda. In order to keep pace with production demands, the company needed to upgrade its factory automation.

Up to 40 per cent of a vegetable crop can go to waste due to the aesthetic requirements of some supermarkets. While a wonky vegetable may not be the most visually pleasing, it possesses the same nutritional value as its perfectly proportioned counterpart. Here, Chris Johnson, managing director of bearing specialist SMB Bearings, explains why not all bearing surface damage should cause alarm and future headaches for offshore oil and gas plant managers.

Bearing surface damage can take many forms, from spalls in the raceways, wear from ineffective lubrication, corrosion due to harsh chemicals to false brinelling marks caused by static vibration. While surface distress can result in problematic symptoms such as excessive heat, increased noise levels, increased vibration or excessive shaft movement, not all external bearing flaws point to compromised internal machine performance. 

Portable Mirage milling machine technology ensured accurate metal-to-metal sealing for vessel covers and heat exchangers during maintenance work by specialty mechanical services company, Hydratight, at an industrial complex in Germany during the plant’s annual shutdown.

A team of 40 Hydratight engineers from Germany, Holland, France, and the UK, operating under COVID-19 restrictions, was tasked with lifting vessel covers, performing on-site machining and controlled bolting on a number of vessels and heat exchanger joints, within the 45 day shutdown.

In a first for Atexor’s SLAM® portable ATEX work light portfolio, the new Hornet 1LED 12V supports exceptionally low voltages. New electronics give the Hornet 1LED 12V a supply voltage range of 9 to 15 Volts, as well as under and overvoltage protection. Hornet 1LED 12V ATEX is the solution when you need to use the lowest available voltage. 

Built from the same robust, dissipative materials as the industry-proven SLAM® Hornet line-up, our new Hornet features construction updates that make our well-known easy work light maintenance even easier. SLAM® Hornets enjoy the highest level of serviceability in the market. The Hornet 1LED 12V takes it even further.

Atexxo Manufacturing has released an Apple iPhone 11 which is suitable for use in Zone 1 and Zone 2 hazardous locations. The explosion proof iPhones are originally manufactured by Apple then converted and certified according to ATEX and IECEx by Atexxo Manufacturing.

This makes the ATEX and IECEx smartphones suited for safe use in gas/vapour Zone 1 and zone 2 hazardous areas. Sim-card can be installed by the end-user themselves.

The devices are suited for Apple (open) DEP enrollment program.

A totally enclosed tank in a hazardous area which needs inspecting, cleaning or repairing is never going to win a workplace of the month award. You need good portable lighting just to see where you’re going, let alone carry out the task.

If you’re working in a team there will be floodlights in use in different locations within the tank and the last thing you want is to be dazzled by the glare of your own light or those of your colleagues.

In this article, following its recent launch of the SCOPE sequencing controller, Carl Knight – managing director of process steam and heat transfer specialist Fulton – takes a look at boiler sequencing control systems and how these intelligent controllers can optimise steam boiler installations to ensure energy efficient operation and improve boiler longevity.

Numerous processing facilities operate multiple steam boilers to meet the demands of their on-site processing equipment. Some sites operate a number of boilers to provide redundancy or reliability, others because space considerations mean multiple boilers are the preferred solution to a single, much larger boiler. However, if the steam boilers in facilities with multiple units are not optimised for efficiency, then the potential for any energy savings is not being utilised to its fullest.

Fluke will again be offering a free product to customers who purchase Fluke products between 15th February 2021 and 30th June 2021. 

Customers who purchase Fluke products through authorized Fluke distributors have the opportunity to claim a free product. Claim the free product through the Fluke website with the original proof of purchase, invoice, or receipt.