Since 2015, SKF has decreased its manufacturing carbon footprint by 36% and is already operating two carbon neutral factories. Today, SKF announces its aim to achieve a fully carbon neutral manufacturing footprint by 2030.

The 2030 target will cover SKF’s own manufacturing operations, i.e. SKF’s scope 1 and 2 emissions. It will be achieved by a combination of process improvements, energy efficient machinery, and procurement and generation of renewable energy. As a last resort, SKF may also purchase high quality carbon offsets.

Hart Door Systems, the first specialist door company in the UK to manufacture high-speed doors, has moved into a series of short films to high-light its successes.

The most recent is a profile of Hart’s work at Komatsu’s 200,000 sq m plant at Birtley, Co Durham, where Hart has installed over 60 doors across a range of door types including Speedor Cleanrooms, Speedor Storms and electric roller shutters.

Winn & Coales (Denso) Ltd, specialist manufacturers of corrosion prevention and sealing products, recently announced the launch of their newly updated website – Denso.net – with new product pages, a new Surface Preparation Guide and many more exciting new features.

Denso.net is the perfect platform to showcase Winn & Coales (Denso) Ltd’s extensive range of corrosion prevention products. The new ‘Product Finder’ features bespoke and off the shelf solutions, that provide enduring protection against corrosion and chemical attack to buried and exposed pipes, valves, fittings, steelwork, marine structures, tanks and concrete bunded areas. 

As part of United Utilities water quality improvement programme, JMC North West, on behalf of NMCN, recently completed works to bury the above ground timing loop at the Pex Hill Service Reservoir.

The challenge was to provide a durable, reliable corrosion prevention solution to protect over 90 double flanged joints prior to full encapsulation. To provide this high level of protection, JMC North West turned to Winn & Coales (Denso) for its services.

Hart Doors has completed another contract at the Wimbledon Traincare depot, the traction maintenance depot servicing South Western Railway. 

Peter Cairns, Hart’s Area Sales Manager, says there are several Hart doors on site already. “This depot is one of the busiest in the country, with an average of 250 carriages maintained there each night. We have several Speedors on site some of which were nearly 30 years old,” says Mr Cairns.

Planon and MazeMap are partnering to integrate Planon’s software for real estate, space, and asset management and MazeMap’s digital wayfinding solutions. This will enable organisations to offer an improved real-time user experience to building occupants and visitors. 

MazeMap specialises in digital in- and outdoor wayfinding for large campuses such as universities, hospitals, offices, and conference venues. By connecting MazeMap’s technology with Planon’s Integrated Workplace Management Systems (IWMS), building occupants will benefit from enhanced navigation tools.

SMGlobal has released FastMaint CMMS software v.11. It is a computerized maintenance management software program for equipment and facilities maintenance.

Maintenance managers can use FastMaint to schedule and manage preventive maintenance as well as corrective maintenance work. They can send work orders to the maintenance staff and receive their feedback. Managers can track the progress of all outstanding and completed jobs. They can use FastMaint for on-site maintenance programs or field service management.

To introduce ourselves, Clockwork IT Ltd is a software Company specialising in Service Maintenance, Scheduling, Planned Maintenance, Ad Hoc Incident Logging, Asset Management and Field based Software.

Client Profile

A typical Client would be Ductbusters Ltd, established in 1996 as the need for specialized ductwork cleaning in a wide range of commercial and medical premises became more apparent. Since its inception, Ductbusters has grown to service all sizes of organization from the smallest fast food outlet to major Hospital projects. Ductbusters have now expanded into Air Handling Unit maintenance, Kitchen Extract cleaning, the provision of Risk Assessments, Fire Damper drop testing and LEV testing.

By Karl Lycett – Rittal UK’s Product Manager for Climate Control

The UK Food and Beverage sector is one of many industries that is having to rapidly adjust to consumer needs and behaviours.

Demand for food and drink products is such that facilities are now having to offer round-the-clock production to support both modern lifestyles and the use of online ordering, such as click and collect.  This, in turn, is having a major impact on factory infrastructure.

By installing automatic lubricators for bearings on its conveyor drive motors and belt pulleys, an opencast mine in Hungary has seen a range of benefits, including prevention of unplanned downtime, longer bearing life and reduced repair work.

Energy provider Mátrai Erőmű Zrt. in Visonta operates one of the largest power plants in Hungary. Mátrai has a power generation capacity of around 950 megawatts and is supplied by the opencast mines in Visonta and Bükkábrány. In addition to lignite, the power plant also uses biomass, photovoltaics and natural gas. The plant employs around 2,000 people.