Capital Equipment

A Carier Separator/De-Waterer has helped a Manchester pickle factory make significant enhancements to its effluent stream, reducing its discharge costs by nearly 40 per cent.

The recent Laser World of Photonics exhibition in Munich, presented the ideal venue for DILAS to showcase its extensive line of high power diode laser products. These latest innovations form DILAS are now available from ES Technology Limited, the United Kingdom distributor for the ever growing range of DILAS diode laser components.

Jet Edge, Inc. is pleased to announce its new video featuring its Mid Rail Gantry waterjet cutting machine. The video can be viewed at http://www.jetedge.com.

Based in a new purpose built 65,000 sq metre facility at Cumbernauld in Scotland, OKI (UK) Limited has over 500 employees involved in the configuration of OKI printers and faxes, plus the manufacture of toner cartridges and ribbons. Since OKI Printing Solutions Cumbernauld was founded in 1987 the company has gone from strength to strength and achieved an outstanding reputation for quality and performance within the global electronics industry. The determination of the company to maintain this reputation has led OKI to evaluate their manufacturing processes and systems on a regular basis. This ensures that product quality and performance continue to be enhanced whilst at the same time output is increased to meet the growing demand for the products manufactured at the Scottish factory. One example of this philosophy has been the extensive collaboration between OKI and Telsonic UK to evaluate and subsequently introduce ultrasonic welding to the plants toner cartridge assembly lines.

Aesica has revealed that it is saving over £67,000 a year in energy costs at its Ponders End site following the installation of GEM steam traps. GEM, a division of Thermal Energy International Inc., has installed a total of 200 steam traps throughout the process plant achieving a 28% energy saving in just 12 months.

Redcats (UK) Ltd is leading the way in adopting an environmental approach towards cooling by installing the Breezair Evaporative Cooling within its warehouse complex in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. Specified and installed by UK exclusive Breezair distributor, CoSaf Environments, Breezair Evaporative Cooling has provided Redcats with a cost effective cooling system for its picking and packing halls, which has dramatically improved the overall thermal comfort and air quality for staff.

One hundred years on and Carter Environmental Engineers of Birmingham are still busy designing, manufacturing and installing a wide range of industrial water cooling & air pollution abatement equipment.

Jet Edge, Inc will showcase its latest innovations in waterjet cutting and ultra-high pressure surface preparation technology at the WaterJet Technology Association’s 2009 American WJTA Conference and Expo, Aug. 18-20, at the Marriott Westchase Hotel in Houston, Texas. Look for Jet Edge in Hall A Booth 209.

F. Ball and Co. Ltd from Leek, Staffordshire is the UK’s leading manufacturer of flooring adhesives and floor preparation products for the contract flooring market and they recently sought out our expertise in robot palletising.

A purpose designed Benco support and manipulator frame has been supplied by Brixworth Engineering Co Ltd to the UK Astronomy Technology Centre at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh. This has been supplied to cover the handling requirements during the production and integration of a prestigious new K-band multi-object spectrograph instrument, designed for the very large telescope, operated by the European Southern Observatory and located in Northern Chile. The instrument is approximately 2.1m diameter x 1.5m long, has an anticipated total mass of 2.5 tonnes with an out of balance load of 3000Nm. A full rotation of movement of the instrument can be accommodated by the Benco manipulator frame, which even when fully loaded has been designed to withstand an earthquake side loading of 1.344g (13.2m/s^2).