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In recent years, the ‘REMBE Safety Days’ series of events has repeatedly made Brilon a meeting place for global explosion safety and process safety. The content of the events was to present and discuss current topics in these areas as well as to create a platform for networking.

In November 2019, 150 participants from five continents were welcomed to the Sauerland region. Unfortunately, no live events can take place due to the current situation. In order to nevertheless enable such an important exchange of knowledge, REMBE is offering a digital version of the REMBE Safety Days. 

Pandemic Drives Demand for Virtual, Remote Industrial Collaboration Services in Key Industry Segments, including Energy, Manufacturing, Food & Beverage, Automotive and Telecommunications

The global leader in hands-free wearable computing for industry, RealWear, today announced that strong customer demand has accelerated its number one position, reporting triple (3X) year-over-year growth.  The company also announced a broad global expansion to support customers, including opening a new Customer Experience Centre in Dubai Internet City to meet growing demand for its products and services in the Middle East, and new offices in other major markets. The company has also achieved a milestone of shipping wearable devices to more than 3,000 unique enterprise customers worldwide in a wide range of industries.

Getac and Bechtle, Germany's largest IT system house and European IT e-commerce provider, have agreed a comprehensive new deal that will see Bechtle distribute Getac's entire product portfolio throughout EMEA, effective immediately.

The new agreement is an expansion of the highly successful existing partnership between the two companies on specific projects, which has been in place for the last three years.

Power Station Enquiry for Robust and Reliable Equipment

Power stations require all equipment to be robust and reliable as their operations are critical to the functions of businesses and households nationwide. Failure of apparatus for even short amounts of time can cause losses in revenue to cascade into hundreds of thousands of pounds.

As world leaders in manufacturing hazardous area portable and temporary lighting, Wolf Safety know that many customers require a bespoke solution which addresses safety, technical and logistical issues raised by a specific project.

So when the Wolf team was asked to propose a lighting solution for the inspection and maintenance of a condensate LNG tank in Norway it was an ideal opportunity to demonstrate the company’s technical expertise and bespoke service. 

In a first for Atexor’s SLAM® portable ATEX work light portfolio, the new Hornet 1LED 12V supports exceptionally low voltages. New electronics give the Hornet 1LED 12V a supply voltage range of 9 to 15 Volts, as well as under and overvoltage protection. Hornet 1LED 12V ATEX is the solution when you need to use the lowest available voltage. 

Built from the same robust, dissipative materials as the industry-proven SLAM® Hornet line-up, our new Hornet features construction updates that make our well-known easy work light maintenance even easier. SLAM® Hornets enjoy the highest level of serviceability in the market. The Hornet 1LED 12V takes it even further.

Cortem Group completes the range of aircraft warning lights with the Low Intensity XLFE-LIB series which will gradually replace the XLFE-4/1 series in red colour. 

The XLFE-LIB series is added to the XLFE-MIB series (medium intensity type B) and the XLFE-MIA series (medium intensity type A), enriching the family of the aircraft warning light equipment. 

XLFE-LIB series low intensity lighting fixtures are suitable to be installed on towers or high buildings as obstacle signalling devices at night thanks to the high power and luminous efficiency light source developed by Cortem Group. The XLFE-LIB lighting fixture, red in color with a luminous intensity of more than 32 candles, complies with the ICAO Annex 14 standard for low intensity aviation warning lamps type B (corresponding to the FAA L-810). 

Ever wonder why are intrinsically safe (IS) ATEX Zone 0 rated portable lights almost always made of engineered polymer instead of metal? This is due to restrictions in IEC 60079 regulations limiting the percentage of certain metals allowed in the external housing of Zone 0 rated devices.

Currently, the limit is 10% or less for aluminum, titanium, zirconium and magnesium. This includes not only the housing, but clips, fasteners and accessories directly attached to the device. There are also practical reasons for not using metal housings. Metal conducts electricity, so the risk of accidentally completing a circuit and creating a spark exists, as do sparks generated by dropping the device. Additionally, metal could potentially react chemically with some gases present in a hazardous environment producing potentially catastrophic results.

Elevators are used in many industries to convey large quantities of bulk materials vertically. Organic bulk materials can form hazardous explosive atmospheres in the enclosures, which can lead to a dust explosion in the presence of an effective ignition source. This article provides an overview of the measures required for comprehensive explosion safety concepts.

Conveyor systems are machines used to move bulk materials in many industries. Examples of mechanical conveying elements (continuous conveyors) are belt conveyors, chain conveyors, vibratory conveyors, screw conveyors or bucket elevators. Bucket elevators, also known colloquially as elevators, are conveying systems that convey bulk material vertically at high transport speed up to a height of about 60 metres. This type of conveyor has been selected as an example in this article, as high hazards can emanate from this type of equipment. Screw and chain conveyors are considered "less at risk of explosion" during normal operation due to the high material concentrations inside the machine, the horizontal position and the lower conveying speeds [1].

Extronics has been awarded a phase two grant from the UK government sustainable innovation fund for its work in developing a contact tracing and social distancing solution primarily targeted at process industries but also suitable in other work environments.

Extronics was previously awarded an initial grant for developing a social distancing and contact tracing solution as part of the existing iTAG X30 product platform.