Capital Equipment

Hygiene, temperature control and process efficiency are all watch words in the food processing and food distribution industries. Guy Windle, Area Sales Manager of sara LBS, says high speed roller shutter doors can be essential in achieving all of these. Go into any food processing or distribution plant and the first thing you notice will probably be the drop in temperature as you enter. 

Often, loading bays need to be heated up or cooled down, mainly to protect stored goods and contrastingly to provide a comfortable working environment, but with large doors open for significant periods of time heating costs can be high. Louise Nurse of loading bay specialists, sara LBS, said it is natural for senior management to want to control this cost, but a practical rather than theoretical approach must be used.

A lot of commercial vehicles actually haul large amounts of minerals, grains and other bulk materials around the UK each year. The figure for aggregates alone is 60,000,000 tonnes, so the total number of vehicle movements and load discharges is huge. Tipping vehicles remain the most efficient and profitable method for ejecting loads – but only when specified correctly.

Did you know it is the operators of commercial vehicles who are responsible for ensuring vehicles are properly maintained and all equipment, including tipping gear, is in good working order, under health and safety legislation. Operators could arguably be defined as the vehicle’s owner, the fleet manager or the driver, so to avoid the pitfalls of tipper maintenance and protect your fleet, follow a few simple steps we have for you here. 

The digital scoreboard enhancement work at Hampden Park has been completed by A&J Fabtech, in Scotland’s national stadium of Glasgow. Hampden Park, Scotland’s national stadium, located in Glasgow, is the second-largest football stadium in Scotland and is one of the top 12 largest stadia in the UK, with a maximum capacity of 51,866. The ground is the home venue of the Scotland national football team and amateur Scottish league club Queen's Park F.C.

Verlinde’s Eurobloc VTF5 electric wire-rope hoists include benefits that are being leveraged within a large press shop at the BMW Group´s MINI plant in Swindon, UK. Two EUROBLOC VT5 crab units are deployed atop two 35-tonne double-girder cranes that were designed, manufactured and installed by VERLINDE´s UK agent, Pelloby. The investment represents the next stage of a drive to upgrade older lifting systems following a similar Pelloby installation at the plant in December.

Within the Stockholm City and Stockholm Odenplan stations, the COPPILOT platform screen doors control system is designed by Clearsy, and it is now in charge of opening and closing the platform edge doors manufactured by Gilgen Door Systems. Originally opened back in July 2017, the Stockholm City and Stockholm Odenplan stations are the two stations of the Citybanan, a commuter railway tunnel beneath central Stockholm. For these two stations, Clearsy and Gilgen Door Systems have developed innovative features for the edge doors.

Two new dock levellers have been installed at one of the UK’s largest food production facilities by sara LBS, replacing older units that were approaching the end of their design life and ensuring that demanding supermarket delivery schedules can be met. The factory employs around 200 people and has regularly invested in new plant and technology.

igus has announced it has fitted its 1,000th ship-to-shore (STS) crane with an energy chain system. For these long travels, rolling energy chains (rol e-chains) are used to maximise service life, while minimising drive power. They can also be combined with the new isense modules to measure the movement and wear of the energy chain system – this enables the replacement date for components to be predicted during ongoing operation and fail-safe operation is therefore enhanced.

Based on the high-performing VICTREX PEEK thermoplastic composite, Magma m-pipe has recently achieved the world’s first qualification for a subsea pipe product under DNVGL-RP-F119 for Thermoplastic Composite Pipe (TCP). Global quality assurance and risk management company DNV GL defined its F119 recommended practice (RP) for use with pipelines in offshore oil and gas operations.