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C.K is set to extend its successful lighting range, with a fantastic selection of innovative new products, including a range of high performance site lights and head torches, that offer a host of advanced features and benefits, including the very latest in LED lighting technology. 

This includes:  The C.K T9613 Head Torch, a feature packed, powerful LED head torch, available in a USB Rechargeable model or battery operated option; and the C.K T9735USB 10W Rechargeable LED Site Light, one of the most powerful compact site lights on the market.

When it comes to bearings, NSK has a proven and practical way to enhance the reliability of machines, the productivity of people and the overall profitability of the business.

The company’s Added Value Programme AIP offers a combination of engineering and commercial services that allows bearing users to improve the performance of their production machinery, people and processes, making their maintenance function more efficient and effective. Money can therefore be saved at every step of the process to help maximise market competitiveness.

It is with profound sadness, that the board of Directors of Winn & Coales International Ltd, announce the death of Company Chairman Mr David Winn OBE.

David Winn, the grandson of founder Paul Winn, joined the company 55 years ago in 1965. He had a long and distinguished career at Winn & Coales, serving as Deputy Chairman from 1968-1991 and Managing Director from 1988-1995. When Frank Coales passed away in 1991, he became Chairman of the company and held this position for 29 years until his passing on the 21st of September 2020.

After increasingly high demand, Norton Clipper’s coveted range has broken new ground with movement into four new application sectors:

Wood and composites: Built for power, precision and durability, these tools encompass solutions for hard and soft wood, wooden panels, OSB, MDF, and HDF.

Multi-materials: These blades are designed to cut construction timbers, pallets, nails and non-ferrous metals, without damage to the blade itself.

Veneer and laminates: Whether cutting melamine faced boards, plywood, laminated panels or sheets of HPL, this range has a professional blade to suit.

Aluminium: This is Norton Clipper’s specialist range of blades, suited to cutting aluminium, brass, and copper.

In the past, agricultural OEMs had two choices when it came to selection of actuators for applications such as folding sprayer booms: hydraulic or pneumatic. However, the latest generation of linear actuators, such as the H-Track from Thomson Industries, a leading brand of the Altra Industrial Motion Corp., is offering the required performance without any of the traditional drawbacks of hydraulic or pneumatic actuators.

Pneumatic and hydraulic actuators require supporting systems to operate. Naturally this takes up space on a vehicle platform, space that is often at a premium as manufacturers move to improve vehicle packaging. Pipes make installation more difficult, which takes up time on the production line and during maintenance work.

Hart Door Systems has completed the installation of seven insulated roller shutters at London Underground’s Acton Works maintenance facility in west London.

Kyle Pendergood at Hart Doors says the contract included the installation of a three tonnes shutter which was 11.8m wide and 4.4m high. 

“Its weight alone was significant as was the width,” says Kyle. “We had a detailed lifting plan to make this work. The Hart team again rose to the challenge.”

Vibration monitoring on equipment such as cranes, hoists and screw jacks has traditionally been difficult.  These are often driven by an electric motor rotating at perhaps 1500 rpm, but the final hoist drum or travel wheel rotates far slower – perhaps only a few rpm- with intermediate shafts rotating at speeds somewhere between these values. 

Conventional vibration monitoring is difficult because you need to place sensors in line with each of the bearings on each of these different speed shafts, which is not only time consuming, it can be very difficult to access – especially to try and take readings when the crane is in operation.

Complicated and time-consuming scaffold structures are now part of the past: The new PAXTower with folding base by ZARGES UK, the leading access equipment specialist, is equipped with a raft of timesaving and safety-enhancing new features and is fully compliant with the latest safety regulations. 

The ergonomic and sturdy design, in accordance with the latest EN1004 specification, ensures safe working at height at all times. The new ZARGES PAXTower range will be available from October 2020.

Optimally matched to the welding torch at all times: The new VacuFil series of extraction units from KEMPER is a unique unit for torch extraction that combines easy handling with needs-based extraction capacity.

The VacuFil 125i, 150i and 250i digital unit variants automatically and continuously adjust the required air volume flows according to the individual torch characteristics. W3 approval now certifies that the digital VacuFil versions embody the highest level of protective welding equipment. Also, international machine manufacturers are already successfully using the new high-vacuum technology.

As employees begin returning to work, maintaining a safe and socially distanced workplace is at the forefront of everyone’s mind. Statistics have shown that 32% of those surveyed were anxious about catching or spreading Covid-19 in their normal workplace. HSE guidelines advise that workers maintain a safe distance of 2m apart at all times, or 1m apart with risk mitigation measures in place. 

Health hazards such as from noise and dust continue within the workplace, so personal monitoring must continue. However, it can be difficult to deploy personal monitoring equipment while maintaining social distancing. World-leading environmental monitoring manufacturer Casella is enabling companies to overcome social distancing challenges with a new initiative to provide equipment that allows monitoring to continue whilst maintaining social distancing.