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Sheffield manufacturer, Mechan, is extending its portfolio of rail depot handling equipment, after developing a new product for longstanding client, Siemens Mobility Limited. 

The firm is now offering bogie lifters to the rail market, after designing and producing a set of 22 for a specialist overhaul facility in Lincoln. 

Bogie lifters work in pairs to raise a bogie frame to a comfortable height for maintenance and repairs to take place underneath. Siemens Mobility approached Mechan to tender for a set to replace aging equipment and the two firms worked together to perfect the design, ensuring it provided maximum efficiency and safety. 

With the UK Government continuing to ease lockdown measures, increasing numbers of companies and commercial premises are opening for business after a hiatus due to COVID-19.

To help protect the health of those making their way back to the office, factory, shop, pub, gym or any other place of work, a new ultra-effective surface sanitiser – Hi-KLEEN – is being introduced by Hi-line Industries. Spraying a single coating of HI-KLEEN on to surfaces such as doors, handles, handrails, chairs and desks will not only kill coronavirus, it will provide protection against further contamination for up to five hours.

Hi-KLEEN has been specially formulated to kill and inhibit both bacteria and viruses (including enveloped viruses such as coronavirus) on hard or soft surfaces subject to frequent contact. Simply spray at a distance of approximately 10–20 cm from the surface to be treated for effective protection. This odour-free, clear product is ideal for offices, factories (including food plants), conference centres, sports clubs, hospitals, health centres, educational facilities, care homes, entertainment/hospitality venues (including restaurants and pubs), and even transport. 

The Gerromatic radial shaft seal from Freudenberg Sealing Technologies comprises a stainless steel retaining element and a high-performance PTFE wave-shaped sealing lip that runs in a novel sinusoidal pattern on the shaft surface.

As the shaft rotates, each point of the sealing lip repeatedly covers a new area of the shaft that is wetted with medium. The Gerromatic radial shaft seal is available via Dichtomatik Ltd, the exclusive provider for Freudenberg’s food and beverage related sealing products in the UK.

The seal is intended for use in axially accessible installation spaces, whereby the metallic clamping ring enables an exceptionally tight fit. The Gerromatic rotary shaft seal withstands a high-pressure load of up to 8 bar, and temperatures of between  80°C and +200°C. In other applications, a sliding speed of up to 25 m/s can be achieved. 

For hydraulic torque wrench applications in areas hard to access with larger air powered pumps, the Enerpac LAT Air Hydraulic Torque Wrench Pump combines compact design and high productivity.

Featuring a proven Enerpac piston design, reinforced Filter Regulator Lubricator (FRL) support and air supply connection, the LAT Air Hydraulic Torque Wrench Pump will provide years of reliable service with fastening and break out speeds to keep jobs on schedule and under budget. 

Hart Door Systems, the Newcastle-based specialist engineering company, has won multi-door orders for export to Russia, Hong Kong and Kuwait.

The contracts, which cover a range of Hart Doors’ commercial doors, are welcomed by the company’s managing director as “very welcome and a boost for the hard-working team”.

C&P Engineering Services is proud to be appointed as an official Distribution Partner for Schneider Electric Process Instrumentation, supplying products and engineering services from their headquarters in South Wales.

The appointment officially came into effect on the 4th August 2020 and is an important addition to the Turnkey Electrical, Control & Instrumentation engineering solutions that C&P offer to their clients throughout the UK and internationally. 

Safety in workplaces has been brought to the forefront of business agendas in recent months, with the control of bacteria being more important than ever. Many facilities that relied on air conditioning to keep temperatures down have had to re-think their cooling solutions due to the hazards associated with the recirculation of air.

Thankfully for facilities managers, there is a cooling solution that is an effective alternative to air conditioning that will keep your people, processes and products cool, whilst diluting the bacteria in the air and creating a safer working environment. EcoCooling’s evaporative coolers use fresh air to cool large spaces and are the ideal solution for maintaining internal temperatures below 25°C all year round.

Hi-line Industries, the UK’s leading designer, manufacturer and installer of air/gas dryers and nitrogen generators, is lending its support to the NHS in combating the current COVID-19 pandemic.

The company’s fabrication department have been working round the clock to build and despatch medical gas dryers for a number of new NHS Nightingale and existing hospitals, supplying equipment against stringent deadlines. As key workers in the crisis, their service department is remaining open to support the NHS and customers in essential industries such as medical, healthcare and food manufacturing.

Process steam and heat transfer specialist Fulton has launched SCOPE, an all-new, PLC-based boiler sequencing control system that can optimise installations to ensure energy efficient operation and improve boiler longevity.

With many facilities operating multiple boilers for their processes, SCOPE is a universal control system suitable for sequencing up to four steam boilers, which can be retrofitted to existing vertical and horizontal fuel-fired boiler installations, including Fulton’s own range of existing and planned products and those manufactured by other boiler OEMs.

King’s Boiler Hire have worked tirelessly throughout the COVID-19 pandemic keeping hospital, care home and food processing clients running during this difficult time.

Offering boiler units ranging from 1,500lb/hr to 17,500 lb/hr with fast, Nationwide delivery available 24/7,  King’s Boiler Hire is the UK’s No.1 choice for emergency boiler hire.