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Svantek’s Sv200 Ideal For Monitoring Noise At Ports

sept-15-m-11Svantek’s Sv200 Ideal For Monitoring Noise At Ports

Fully integrated solution with built in web server for unattended long & short term measurements provides live data 24-hours a day, seven days a week

An increasing number of UK ports, including Felixstowe, Port of Tyne and Peterhead, are benefiting from high performance environmental and occupational health noise measurement instrumentation from Svantek UK Ltd (tel: 01296 682040; www.svantek.co.uk). (Read More)

Draka doubles storage space with Combilift and Aisle-Master

sept-15-m-10Draka doubles storage space with Combilift and Aisle-Master

Draka is a brand of the globally successful Prysmian Group and its facility in Aberdeen supplies oil rigs and drilling platforms with a wide range of power, telecommunications, instrumentation and control cabling, and specialises in providing custom cut lengths from a little as a few metres up to 20,000m reels. (Read More)

AirBench release VertEx Booth – High Efficiency Containment Booth

sept-15-m-9AirBench release VertEx Booth – High Efficiency Containment Booth

AirBench Ltd are pleased to announce the release of our new modular booth designed for attachment to the VertEx cross-draught system.

Using the new modular booth construction, a full environmental containment booth can be built rapidly from standard parts. (Read More)

The World’s Only Atex Intrinsically Safe Fail Freeze Valve Introduced By IMI Precision Engineering

sept-15-m-8The World’s Only Atex Intrinsically Safe Fail Freeze Valve Introduced By IMI Precision Engineering

IMI Precision Engineering, the world-leading fluid and motion control specialist formerly known as Norgren, has introduced the world’s only fail freeze proportional valve to be certified ATEX Intrinsically Safe (IS) for use in hazardous environments. (Read More)

Free IECEx and ATEX Information Poster

sept-15-m-7Free IECEx and ATEX Information Poster

ExVeritas (a UK ATEX Notified Body and IECEx Certification Body) have just updated their popular IECEx and ATEX Information poster and are will send you one free if you contact them via their website.

The poster is Ideal for hazardous area project engineers, inspectors and equipment manufacturers. The poster has been completely revised for the latest edition of the Standards, including the latest Inspection and Installation standard (2014) charts and changes. (Read More)

Routine Turbine Handling In Offshore Conditions

sept-15-m-6Routine Turbine Handling In Offshore Conditions

The Gerritsen On- & Offshore Services BV company have handled a routine turbine maintenance procedure being undertaken on an offshore location in the Southern North Sea.

This involved four of their personnel, utilising an air operated hoist unit manufactured by the J D Neuhaus company for the safe and effective lift and manoeuvre procedures for a turbine lift load of 12000kgs. (Read More) 

New Non-Intrusive Flow Measurement System Added To BSRIA Instrument Solutions Product Portfolio

sept-15-m-5New Non-Intrusive Flow Measurement System Added To BSRIA Instrument Solutions Product Portfolio

Hot off the rollers and now available to purchase from BSRIA Instrument Solutions is the new Flexim Fluxus F721 non-intrusive flow measurement system which can measure volume flow in virtually any kind of liquid, from the smallest tubing to the largest pipework, independent of the pressure inside the pipe. (Read More)

Plant Protection

sept-15-m-4Plant Protection

Hima-Sella to upgrade a P1 Alarm system for a major Oil & Gas refinery in Norway

Specialist Safety Instrumentation Systems provider Hima-Sella announced at this year’s Offshore Europe conference and exhibition in Aberdeen that it has received an order for the design, manufacture and installation of an upgrade to a large Norwegian oil and gas refinery’s P1 Alarm system. (Read More)

Pilz launch new PUWER Assessment service

sept-15-m-3Pilz launch new PUWER Assessment service

Pilz Automation Technology has launched a new PUWER (Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations) Assessment service that aims to provide customers with an efficient yet detailed assessment of their machinery to PUWER.

PUWER covers virtually all work equipment from something as basic as a hand tool to a complex production line. Jamie Walton CMSE® from Pilz Automation Technology explains, (Read More) 

Are you ready for the new Standards and Certification Requirements for non-electrical equipment and assemblies?

sept-15-m-2Are you ready for the new Standards and Certification Requirements for non-electrical equipment and assemblies?

International Standard ISO 80079-36 and 37 will address for the first time the requirements and protection concepts for mechanical explosion protected equipment (Ex) on an international level. Examples of non-electrical equipment are: couplings, pumps, gearboxes, brakes, hydraulic and pneumatic motors and any combination of devices to realize a machine, fan, engine, compressor or assembly. (Read More)