Capital Equipment

The air-operated hoists manufactured by J D Neuhaus are an obvious first choice for chemical applications because of their explosion-proof credentials when operating within hazardous environments. They have over 40 years experience of mechanical handling in plants involved with the manufacture of chemical products, as well as other industries where a potentially dangerous chemical is stored or otherwise used.

When the outside temperature rises, workers in the Frying/Packaging Areas at Indian Food producers, Pataks Foods, no longer feel the heat following the installation of Breezair Evaporative Cooling. Specified and installed by CoSaf Environments, five Breezair evaporative coolers now provide the area with naturally cooled fresh air, which has reduced temperatures from summer highs of around 30°C to a comfortable working environment of around 22°C.

The recent delivery of a new Rofin DC 050 slab laser to Mercedes-Benz located in Stuttgart-Hedelfingen, Germany is in itself newsworthy, but this event also represents an exceptional milestone for Rofin as it marks the 5,000th CO2 Slab Laser to be delivered by the company.

Elscint Automation have developed a unique Vibratory Bowl Feeder for feeding of plastic pen barrels having length of 70 mm. These pen barrels are used in sketch pens. They are made of plastic and are very light weight. Secondly, they need to be oriented with respect to one particular side which has just a small step towards the end and most importantly; they need to be stacked by getting them out in a rolling position.

Kronopol in Zary, Poland is one of the largest producers of particleboards and derived timber products in the world. It is the only company where all three types of derived timber product boards are produced on one site. The annual board production is 1.3 million m2 and is exported to more than 40 countries.

Scorpion’s innovative gas powered generator is not only ensuring that all essential equipment at South West Peninsular Training’s new premises in Langport, Somerset will continue to function during a powercut, but is also being used to train the next generation of gas fitters and electricians. Located in a purpose built room in the training centre, the technologically advanced natural gas generator includes a weatherproof and acoustic canopy and a remote start system.

Initial Washroom Solutions, the UK’s leading washroom hygiene service, is fulfilling its environmental pledge of reducing energy usage by installing the award winning Venturi orifice traps from GEM. Trialled at the company’s new Reading plant, which has a number of on- site steam meters, Initial Washroom Solutions was able to verify a 10% saving in energy consumption despite there being no failures with the plant’s mechanical traps.

With the recent launch of a new series of high powered fibre lasers, Rofin further consolidates the company’s ability to offer the most complete range of lasers and laser systems. The new FL Series offers two models; the FL x75 and FL 010 with output powers of 750 and 1,000 Watts respectively. The excellent beam quality from this new series of lasers can be coupled with fibre optics of between 50μm and 600μm in diameter, equivalent to beam quality of 2.5 to 30 mm x mrad. In addition the Rofin FL 010 S offers the option of a fibre laser solution with single mode beam quality of typically 0.4 mm x mrad and 1,000 Watt output power.

Three Closed -Loop Thermal Control Units from Pfaudler are successfully controlling AE 2500 Reactors in a hazardous area for a leading manufacturer of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients in Sweden.

Air Control Industries Ltd has significantly expanded their range of air movement products by introducing a new range of medium to high pressure fans.