Peppers are a world leader in the design, manufacture and supply of Hazardous Area Connectivity Solutions for use within industries such as Oil, Gas, Marine, Petrochemical, Pharmaceutical and Food.
The Peppers product range includes a vast array of Elastomeric Seal and Barrier Cable Glands for use with armoured, unarmoured and conduit systems. Gland accessories specifically made for use with Peppers glands include locknuts, sealing washers, serrated washers, (Read More)
Have you met the Future of Gas Detection? BW Clip4, MGC Simple and Blackline G7
Always striving to introduce the very latest technology from tried and tested worldwide brands, Shawcity is delighted to showcase and offer customers the widest independent choice of gas detection instruments on the market.
Our latest next generation products from the world’s leading manufactures in gas detection are all designed to push (Read More)
Lift Truck Rule Change For Pharmaceutical Manufacturers
ATEX compliant lift trucks used in pharmaceutical manufacturing sites have even greater safety requirements following an update to the EN1755:2015* standard in November 2017. This update is likely to affect how pharmaceutical firms, and their suppliers, manage lift trucks.
“Pharmaceutical manufacturers are handling high volumes of flammable material when feeding their production process. (Read More)
ATEX Lift Truck Audits - Accept No Imitations
ATEX lift truck users are being reminded that only fully trained Pyroban engineers can provide the annual safety audit known as the Ex-ASA.
“Pyroban trains customer engineers to fix and maintain explosion protected handling equipment safely,” says Karolina Kurzawa, Aftersales Service and Training from Pyroban. “However, the training does not prepare them to conduct the detailed systems audit needed to ensure safety in potentially explosive atmospheres.” (Read More)
Modbus added to Multicolour Display
BEKA associates have added an optional Modbus RTU interface to their universal multicolour display panel meters. The isolated two wire RS485 interface enables the panel meter’s display and status to be remotely read. The panel meter can also be configured via the interface further extending applications for these new high quality instruments.
Each meter has a colour selectable, five digit and thirty one segment bargraph display visible in all lighting conditions from bright (Read More)
Chalmit Re-introduces the HDL106 - the game-changing LED Floodlight is back!
Chalmit are delighted to re-introduce the re-certified and re-tested HDL106 modular floodlight. Designed for hazardous environments, the LED floodlight combines all of the game-changing features of its Hadar predecessor with a Chalmit stamp of exceptional quality. (Read More)
New GORE® Polyvent EX+ Safety + Uncompromising Performance For Equipment In Explosive Atmospheres
W. L. Gore & Associates announces the launch of GORE® PolyVent Ex+. The latest addition to Gore’s Protective Vents Screw-In Series is certified according to explosion-proof safety standards, IECEx and ATEX. These certifications enable global integration of the product with fewer certification efforts, saving labor and testing costs. Further, the PolyVent Ex+ offers additional protection performance (Read More)
Safeguarding Employee Health And Safety.
With 12,000 workplace-related respiratory deaths every year, a further 14,000 lung conditions reported, and 400,000* working days lost annually through breathing problems, effective fume and dust extraction technology is seen as central to safeguarding employee health and safety.
Businesses of every size have a legal duty to assess risks associated with airborne contaminants and, if required, (Read More)
CNP Fit Testing Finally Arrives in the UK
Introducing the Quantifit Respirator Fit Tester, the industry breakthrough in portable mask-fit technology which uses Controlled Negative Pressure (CNP) instead of traditional aerosol particle counting.
Its simpler testing technology means it can test after a 30 second daily calibration in virtually any environment as long as air is present and there is a power supply, a unique benefit over its competitors. (Read More)
At Last! Affordable Condition Monitoring For Hazardous Areas…
Historically, Intrinsically Safe condition monitoring equipment has disappointed
Condition based monitoring (CBM) of equipment in hazardous atmospheres has always presented something of a problem. The very high cost and relatively low functionality of the available vibration data collectors has certainly not helped in this respect. Whilst it has now become common practice to use vibration data collectors on equipment in safe areas, (Read More)
