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BS EN 60825-1:2007 Safety of laser products. Equipment classification and requirements is applicable to the safety of laser products emitting laser radiation in the wavelength range 180 nm to 1 mm. It provides a classification scheme and engineering, labelling and information requirements.

BSI British Standards has just published a revised guide to the limits of sizes, and tolerances, for single start parallel screw threads of Whitworth form, for general engineering use.

Softcover have released Scan2CAD v7.6, a new Vista compatible version of their professional raster to vector conversion software for automatically converting scanned technical engineering drawings into DXF files for editing in any PC CAD and or CNC program.

Colortrac Ltd, the British developer and manufacturer of SmartLF wide format scanners and image acquisition software solutions, has appointed Kevin Zheng as Quality Assurance Manager at Colortrac Imaging Systems (SuZhou) Ltd, their Chinese subsidiary.

Sharc is proud to announce that Southampton School of Engineering Sciences is the first to take advantage of the new teaching license option for Harpoon.

Unique machine technology coupled with sustainable carbon neutral chemistry giving exceptional performance.

Using calibration services accredited by UKAS to ISO/IEC 17025:2005 can limit product failure and down time and help control costs. It can facilitate access to export markets and provide a competitive advantage.

Generator Associates Ltd are delighted to be associated with the forthcoming spectacular musical adaptation of JRR Tolkien’s The Lord Of The Rings in London’s West End. The musical is set to wow audiences at its British and European Premiere from May 2007.

A major UK fresh food manufacturer has chosen Generator Associates to provide a 500Kva SDMO diesel generator solution to power their rapidly expanding production facilities.

Manchester-based Analytical Technology Inc. (ATi) announces that it has received a ‘Best Instrument Supplier’ award in Q2 2007 from utilities provider United Utilities for its provision of residual chlorine monitors. The award was presented to ATi after an in-depth evaluation of all suppliers by United Utilities and recognises ATi’s outstanding performance across a range of key areas including project design, delivery and quality. United Utilities’ operational equipment suppliers are monitored each quarter for quality and performance against a set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).