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A long-term corrosion protection solution has been provided by Flexcrete Technologies Limited for sheet piled walls in Holes Bay in Poole Harbour, said to be the largest natural harbour in Europe.

A new high capacity, easy-access enclosure from Intertec provides plant engineers with a versatile alternative to free-standing cabinets for the environmental protection of field-based process instrumentation. Developed at the request of a Russian oil refinery, the enclosures are made from tough glass reinforced polyester (GRP) and include highly insulated options for use in extremely cold climates. They also offer more space than typical instrument enclosures, to allow plant personnel to use gloved hands when accessing the equipment. Typical applications include housing differential pressure flowmeters and process transmitters in refineries, petrochemical and chemical processing plants.

Plant management professionals are set to receive a productivity boost because Austrian software company COPA-DATA has released a bespoke catalogue creator on its website. The new tool allows users to generate and customise catalogues from a pre-existing list of pages about the company’s industrial automation software package, zenon.

AEG Power Solutions has announced that it has been selected to provide 25 UPS systems for the Tempa Rossa onshore oilfield in Italy. The facility's main engineering, procurement and construction contractor, Tecnimont, has chosen AEG to provide the complete power supply for the site, consisting of four DC UPS systems, 15 AC UPS systems and six combined AC and DC systems.

Commenting on the Hauser Review on Innovation published today, Ms Lee Hopley, Chief Economist at EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation, said:  

In a recent video made with the CC-Link Partner Association, sensors and measurement specialist HBM Test and Measurement has developed a CC-Link gateway module, which allows a single PLC to collect live data from multiple load cells. 

EEF is urging Britain’s manufacturers to take advantage of a £30 million Government matched funding scheme to give employers the skills they need to realise their growth ambitions.

When regular maintenance checks on a high voltage 60MW generator at a large oil refinery signalled a potential earth fault in the rotor, engineers were keen to have a repair completed as soon as possible. The engineering manager contacted the leading specialists in this field, Sulzer, to carry out the repair and subsequent testing.

Vero Software have provided 20 seats of each of their leading VISI and Edgecam brands, to the AMRC Training Centre, which has been officially opened by HRH The Duke of York, KG.

Metso will supply an innovative superheater corrosion management solution to TAURON Cieplo sp. z o.o's CHP plant in Tychy, Poland, in cooperation with Valmet. The solution enables the power plant to extend the lifetime of its superheater in the 35 MWe unit's biomass-fired bubbling fluidized bed boiler, maximize fuel flexibility, optimize fuel economy and lower its environmental impact.