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Hellberg Safety specialist PPE products include highly advanced face protection products, noise hazard protection and communication solutions for personal safety and wellbeing on site.

Hellberg’s interoperable face protection products offer helmet and visor solutions to suit a variety of internal and external work situations. With a standard product design across the range, users are able to mix and match visors, carriers, and hearing protectors for complete ‘headband-only’ or ‘safety helmet’ solutions that protect against the hazards faced in differing task environments.

The spread of the Coronavirus around the globe has had a major impact on everyone’s day to day lives. Not only has the virus taken its toll from a health point of view but has posed major challenges to multiple different industries. As many businesses have been forced to make major changes to their operations to be able to continue or even forced to close for a time, other businesses are facing a significant increase in demand for products to help in the fight against Covid-19.

From the increase in production of personal protective equipment for front-line health workers to the rush to produce the chemicals needed for testing kits and the increase in food production to keep the supermarket shelves full after panic buying, in many areas, the rush is on to react quickly enough to keep up with the demand. 

Leading renewable energy consultancy and service provider, Natural Power, has launched DARC (Detection and Active Response Curtailment) – the first ever bat smart curtailment technology to simultaneously reduce bat fatalities AND energy losses at wind farms.

In its efforts to progress wind farm projects stuck in development due to bat concerns, and reduce the impact of wind farms on bat populations whilst increasing the energy production and revenue potential, Natural Power brought together a team of bat experts and technology and software engineers to develop this new service.

Ultimo Software Solutions has announced that DNASTREAM, the IT consulting organisation, will operate as its UK implementation partner. DNASTREAM will focus on the manufacturing and utilities sectors, supporting businesses by driving the more efficient use of assets, enabled by Ultimo’s Enterprise Asset Management software.

Ultimo and DNASTREAM have been working together since 2018 and are now expanding their collaboration as a first step in Ultimo’s expansion of its international partner strategy. DNASTREAM offers the Ultimo portfolio as part of its extensive range of IT solutions. The business is fully equipped to advise customers on their asset management issues and support any implementation process.

Wood, the global consulting and engineering company, has entered into a new agreement with Spirit Energy to partner on the delivery of late life solutions for the Morecambe Bay gas fields, one of the UK’s largest gas accumulations.

The five-year consolidated services contract, valued at $130 million, will see Wood leverage its experience and capability in late life asset optimisation and management to extend field life, lower costs, and reduce late life carbon intensity across the Hub’s offshore assets in the East Irish Sea and the Barrow onshore gas terminal on the northwest coast of England.

Operations with potentially explosive atmospheres may be overlooking the risks presented by shrink wrapping machines, warns Pyroban.

“When it comes to lift trucks operating in ATEX Zones, we find that many firms are increasingly aware of the need for explosion protection to keep people safe,” says Matt Booth, Sales Manager for Pyroban in the UK and Ireland. “Yet, sometimes, these same applications have completely forgotten about the dangers posed by their shrink wrappers.”

Shrink wrap machines are often present in potentially explosive atmospheres, such as operations handling paints, coatings, chemicals, or any other flammable substance.  They may be used within a production or warehouse area to apply shrink film or stretch wrap to individual products or batches of products before onward transport.

In a strategic move to kick start 2021, R. STAHL Ltd. and Norco Group Limited have officially joined forces to fulfil Central Battery System (CBS) supply, commissioning, and service scopes.

The new alliance will see R. STAHL Ltd. working closely with the emergency power specialists. Norco Group Limited will be recognised and promoted as the official service partner for Central Battery Systems of R. STAHL Ltd. in the United Kingdom. Norco Group Limited will directly manage Commissioning and Service scopes on behalf of R. STAHL Ltd. The core aim is to ensure the full compliance of CBS fed emergency lighting systems without compromise.

In a strategic move to kick start 2021, R. STAHL Ltd. and Norco Group Limited have officially joined forces to fulfil Central Battery System (CBS) supply, commissioning and service scopes.

The new alliance will see R. STAHL Ltd. working closely with the emergency power specialists. Norco Group Limited will be recognised and promoted as the official service partner for Central Battery Systems of R. STAHL Ltd. in the United Kingdom. Norco Group Limited will directly manage Commissioning and Service scopes on behalf of R. STAHL Ltd. The core aim is to ensure the full compliance of CBS fed emergency lighting systems without compromise.

After a year-long build, VEGA Controls have opened their own purpose-built training and seminar centre and UK head office at ‘Metior House’, Maresfield, in the heart of Sussex.

The facility benefits from almost 10,000 square feet of training and meeting facilities for VEGA customers and stakeholders to use. These include: over 15 working, hands-on equipment and application models of level and pressure technologies, sited in their own networked demonstration area; state of the art Av amenities; full sets of operational training equipment and interconnected desks to help train people to the highest standards. It also boasts a spacious cafe/dining room, with access to an outdoor seating and breakout area adjacent to woodland.

Atexxo Manufacturing has released an Apple iPhone 11 which is suitable for use in Zone 1 and Zone 2 hazardous locations. The explosion proof iPhones are originally manufactured by Apple then converted and certified according to ATEX and IECEx by Atexxo Manufacturing. This makes the ATEX and IECEx smartphones suited for safe use in gas/vapour Zone 1 and zone 2 hazardous areas. Sim-card can be installed by the end-user themselves.