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Managing any building or facility requires significant commitment and resources from facility management teams.

Each operational department has its own unique and complicated requirements to ensure functionality. However, as assets and equipment are the primary objectives of facilities management, CloudApper can simplify your task and guide you through the process of what it is you or your team needs to accomplish. 

Ultimo Software Solutions has announced that DNASTREAM, the IT consulting organisation, will operate as its UK implementation partner. DNASTREAM will focus on the manufacturing and utilities sectors, supporting businesses by driving the more efficient use of assets, enabled by Ultimo’s Enterprise Asset Management software. 

Ultimo and DNASTREAM have been working together since 2018 and are now expanding their collaboration as a first step in Ultimo’s expansion of its international partner strategy. DNASTREAM offers the Ultimo portfolio as part of its extensive range of IT solutions. The business is fully equipped to advise customers on their asset management issues and support any implementation process.

With the UK continuing its battle against COVID-19, businesses everywhere are facing the unenviable task of ensuring virus-free workplaces for staff and customers alike.

For this reason, HI-KLEEN from Hi-line Industries has been proving exceptionally popular since its introduction in the summer of 2020. To help even more companies benefit from this highly effective surface sanitiser for commercial premises, Hi-line has produced a short but highly informative YouTube video (https://youtu.be/7cQlavJ51S4) that demonstrates the product’s easy application. 

The British Compressed Air Society (BCAS) is offering all end-user customers of BCAS members an exclusive 25 per cent discount on its full range of CPD-approved training courses. 

Announced to celebrate the launch of the Society’s new e-learning portal (e-learning.bcas.org.uk), the offer also includes free, associate membership of BCAS for each customer (excluding trade customers).  This provides a host of additional benefits, such as discounted publications, as well as access to compressed air guidelines and the society’s social events.

Abengoa, a major multi-national infrastructure company working in the energy and water sectors, has contracted Ingersoll Rand’s Engineering Project Solutions team to design a tailored compressed air system for the Agadir-Chtouka desalination plant in Morocco, with the latest CompAir technology providing the perfect solution.

Water plants depend on high-quality instrument air and service air to be exceptionally clean and free of contaminants such as moisture and particles. The Agadir-Chtouka desalination plant required instrument air to power pneumatic equipment, valves and some electrical controls, as well as service air for the industrial processes at the facility, including seawater intake, the re-distribution of salt to the sea, storing drinking water in tanks, and cleaning these tanks too.

Adhesive Types, Background & Application

Careful consideration must be taken with pump selection when handling the transfer of glues. Depending on the type, they can be highly viscous as well as harden and solidify when exposed to air. Glues are typically either water based or solvent based, in this instance the former is relevant.

PVA is a common example of water-based glue, natural or synthetic soluble polymers are added to water to form the liquid, this type of product only works if the applied surface is permeable, for example wood and paper. The glue sets once the water has evaporated from the surface, the bond can then be broken easily by the reapplication of water, these glues are popular as they are low cost and friendly to the environment.

Siemens Smart Infrastructure has upgraded its range of SSA actuators for small PICV valves by adding new features for more energy efficient and versatile hydronic room applications.

 The updated SSA actuators now offer more flexibility due to their broad control possibilities - from analog control to KNX communication capabilities for room solutions and fast integration into connected systems. While using the same cable for communication and power, the customer saves time and cost. Thanks to the operating mode ‘nightmode’, the actuators are more silent than ever, with less than 28 dB. This makes them ideal for use in noise-sensitive areas, such as hotels, recording studios, meeting rooms and libraries.

CMT expands the CMA advanced mobile valve family

The power management company Eaton has announced the launch of the CMT mobile valve section, a streamlined new section option for the CMA advanced mobile valve. With the capability to control two bidirectional services from one section – an industry first – the CMT valve section increases design flexibility and reduces CMA valve bank size, weight and overall system cost.

Complex maintenance project completed successfully and on time

A manufacturer within the German automotive sector has a modern combined heat and power plant that supplies its own facilities as well as large areas of the nearby town. A short lead time was therefore an important aspect when putting routine pump maintenance out to tender. Not only was Sulzer able to offer the earliest completion date, but it also met the deadline and to the full satisfaction of the customer – in spite of unforeseen challenges during the performance of the project.

Clockwork IT, who have been developing software for the Service Management Sector for over 20 years, have announced the latest software release for their ‘coming out of COVID-19’ April launch of Version 21.

With many years’ experience in the sector and thousands of users in the Service Management arena, version 20 builds on the ‘end to end’ solution that Clockwork have offered, covering the business process from quote to invoice and payment, including contracts, planned maintenance, scheduling, mobile applications, forms capture, job completion to invoice and financial integration. At a cost of less than £1.50 per day, the Return On Investment is obvious;