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	IFC - easyFairs MAINTEC 2010
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	Jul-Aug 2009
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	Clear The Air
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	Talking Shop Funny things misconceptions, although as many an MP has found out over the past few months, they?re not necessarily a laughing matter.
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	Petro Canada In Gaelic, the ancient language of Scotland, ?whisky? means ?the water of life? and ?Glenmorangie? means the valley of tranquillity.
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	Enhance Your Performance Through Your People
	Toyota Recognises Schaeffler For Quality of Supply Toyota has granted an Achievement Award in the ?Supply? category to The Schaeffler Group. The award recognises the quality of products and services supplied by Schaeffler.
	Plant Director at Schaeffler UK Awarded MBE Roger Evans, Plant Director at precision bearing and automotive component manufacturer Schaeffler (UK) Ltd. has been awarded an MBE (Membership of the Order of the British Empire) in the Queen?s Birthday Honours List, for his services to the Engineering Industry in Wales.
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	Jelly Babies Deliver Carbon Savings With its ?Purple Goes Green? campaign, Cadbury made a clear statement of intent to the rest of the food and beverage industry.
	Totally transforming....the performance of your drives
	Alfa Laval To Recruit Technical Apprentices Alfa Laval, in conjunction with Farnborough College of Technology, is launching a new technical apprenticeship scheme, this Autumn, at its engineering workshops in Surrey.
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	Helping Others Improve Their Maintenance Performance Is Most Rewarding Keeping with our recent run of award winning maintenance professionals, this month we feature the 2002 Maintenance Professional of the Year Mick Saltzer.
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	See Page 6 - Helping Others Improve Their Maintenance Performance Is Most Rewarding
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	AMIS Strategy Results For the past twenty years MCP Consultancy has been providing the AMIS Audit and Asset Management improvement service to manufacturing and asset intensive organisations on a worldwide basis.
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	FLIR T-Series
	Infrared Training
	NEW - The IRI2010 Thermal Imager
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	VisIR 640 Infrared Vision
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	Focus On Thermography Thermal Imaging or Thermography is a very versatile maintenance tool. In the hands of a skilled operator it instantly shows anomalies in mechanical, civil and electrical engineering components.
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	Certification - How To Achieve Results Using Infrared Thermography On a recent trip to conduct a series of Infrared Thermography training courses, it was very evident that the technology has been embraced universally by industry.
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	For ALL your temperature measurement applications...
	Be A Winner Get Your Hands On The Best Thermal Imager
	Thermaltec Thermographic Surveys - Specialist Thermographic Services
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	New Generation IR Cameras Three years ago the markets were hit by the first low cost, high resolution cameras that have revolutionised the use of thermography and vastly enhanced the appreciation of the benefits of the technology.
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	Online Infrared Training
	The Instrument Centre - Sales, Hire, Repair & Calibration
	See More With the Testo 880 Thermal Imager
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	Evolution and Revolution: Two Ways To Progress While the need for progress may be accepted in most areas of maintenance technology and best practice, there are two very different routes by which it can be achieved.
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	Nord Geared Motors....are ideally suited to pump applications
	No Compromise Level Measurement To 10 Metres - IMP
	Fluid Carrying Flexibility Swivel Joints
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	See Page 16 - Evolution and Revolution: Two Ways To Progress
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	The All In One Coupling, Flange Adaptor and Dismantling Joint System
	FLUX - The Suitable Solution For Each Industry!
	More Than Just Pumps
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	Your One Stop Shop For Engineering Excellence
	Manufacturing Performance Masterclass
	Revolution
	Protect your plant...
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	easyFairs Announces Exciting MAINTEC Expansion It?s another nine months until the country?s senior maintenance professionals gather again at easyFairs? MAINTEC ? but plans are already well underway to evolve the show in 2010 and attract even more visitors.
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	Supporting The Drive For Operational Efficiency Every business wants to operate at maximum operational efficiency. Doing so will drive a direct link to optimum financial performance, impacting the balance sheet, P&L, cash flow and, ultimately, shareholder value.
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	What springs to mind?
	Are Your Filters Performing To Their True Rating?
	Specialists In Planned Preventative Maintenance
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	Pirana CMMS
	An enterprising company knows that improving asset management...improves their efforts...
	A Comprehensive Business System For Facilities and Maintenance Management
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	Data Security and Integrity On Your CMMS Your CMMS data is never 100% secure from mechanical breakdown, natural disasters, human error, or malicious acts.
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	Total quality control solutions where you need us most - everywhere
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	Why Calibration Matters Calibration can be as confusing as it is important. In simple terms, calibration involves the comparison of a test instrument against a known standard in order to determine whether the instrument under test is reading to its correct accuracy specification.
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	Product Review - Hansen Gear Units Speed-Up Corus Line Steelmakers Corus (Port Talbot) had been experiencing problems with their 42? edger drive system.
	Product Review - ABB Launches Machinery Drive With IP66 A variable speed drive for machinery applications that demand a high ingress protection (IP) is launched by ABB, saving time and money by avoiding the need to design a special enclosure.
	Product Review - AV Tech Industrial consultants AV Technology Ltd have been appointed value added resellers of the renowned FLIR range of thermal imaging cameras and associated software.
	Make complex stuff simple
	Product Review - 21 Years And Still Going Strong..... Grundfos were recently contacted by Frank Findlay, Water Resource Manager for Highland Spring, who advised them that a Grundfos SP27-9 Submersible Borehole Pump, which was installed over 21 years ago in one of the main boreholes used to pump the spring water, continues to supply the bulk of the spring water for the companies bottling facility.
	Product Review - Next Day Motor Delivery For Ireland Campbell Electric Motors of Ireland has moved into a new 6,000 sq ft warehouse in Dublin capable of holding 2,500 motors, which makes it the largest stockist of electric motors in Ireland and allows next day delivery throughout the country, as well as same day service in the event of an emergency breakdown.
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	Industrial Endoscopes & Cameras
	Your complete chemical solution
	Value Driven Maintenance - The Book
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	Product Review - Condition Monitoring Gets Clever For Gear Units Cement makers to offshore windfarm suppliers are making significant cost savings with Siemens GearControl, by using on-site and remote CM services.
	Product Review - Maintaining Good Taste At Lionel Hitchen Spirax Sarco pneumatic controls have been installed at Lionel Hitchen, a leading independent manufacturer of natural extracts, oils and flavours, to ensure that every batch of product reaches the required standard.
	Product Review - Manufacturing Performance Masterclass 2009 - 15th October 'Manufacturing in difficult times, cutting costs without cutting corners? ? you cannot afford to miss this 1-day, best-practice conference for manufacturing & engineering managers.
	Product Review - New Low Weight, High Resolution IR Camera The VisIR? 640 camera from Thermoteknix, with its superior thermal resolution, gives sharp, high definition images, making fault diagnosis fast and reliable.
	Product Review - Vibration Sensor Offer During the months of June and July 2009, Monitran is making many of its general purpose vibration sensors (including their Vmounting studs) available to its UK-based re-sellers for as little as half price
	Product Review - Instant Pinpointing with Heatseeker The IDEAL handheld HeatSeeker incorporates an Auto Hot/Cold Tracker that automatically pinpoints the hottest and coldest temperatures within a single screen by highlighting both with dual cursors.
	Product Review - 'Rent To Own' Scheme Provides Freedom and Flexibility Instrumentation specialist Ashtead Technology has launched a flexible scheme which spreads the cost of buying the latest instrumentation, providing 12 months of the usual rental benefits (inc technical support) and minimising capital expenditure.
	Product Review - In A Class Of Its Own The introduction of the Grundfos SL range of submersible pumps, means that there is now a durable, service friendly range of submersible wastewater pumps available to the market that employs many innovative features specifically designed to optimise system performance and reduce maintenance requirements.
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	We Have The Right Component Drying Solution For Your Business
	MAINTAIN - International Trade Fair For Industrial Maintenance
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	The right connection for stainless hygienic fittings
	With a highly advanced range of lubricants, cutting fluids and coolants, Millers Oils.....
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	Maintenance and Asset Management Editorial Most accounts of thve progress of ideas in maintenance management suggest that ?best practice? in this field has evolved through something like four overlapping historical phases, the nature of each determined by the technology and work culture of its time.
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	Turning Maintenance Into An Asset Bonar Floors, soon to be re-branded to Forbo Flooring following its acquisition in 2008, has been manufacturing Flotex flooring products for over thirty years at its site in Ripley, Derbyshire.
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	See Page 34 - Turning Maintenance Into An Asset
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	See Page 34 - Turning Maintenance Into An Asset
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	See Page 34 - Turning Maintenance Into An Asset
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	Case Study: Protection Of Hydraulic Equipment and Potential Extension of Unit Life...... Hydraulic equipment is ubiquitous in both manufacturing industry and construction. Indeed, as staff numbers em??ployed in engineering have declined numbers of hydraulic power packs and hydraulically operated equipment seem to have increased.
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	See Page 39 - Case Study: Protection of Hydraulic Equipment and Potential Extension....
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	Take The Right Road
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	Cut Costs and Go Green - With Thermal Fluid Since thermal fluid became popular in general industrial process heating applications some 50 years have elapsed.
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	Thermal Fluid
	Energy Efficient Steam Boilers
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	European Emissions Trading The European Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) runs in consecutive Phases. Phase I ran from 2005-2007, Phase II runs from 2008-2012, and Phase III will run from 2013-2020.
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	Making Metering Matter Against the backdrop of the recession, it is no surprise that reducing costs has been a priority for businesses this year.
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	For ALL your temperature measurement applications...
	Energy Efficient Combustion Control For Industrial Boilers
	Promotional Advertising Gifts
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	See Page 48 - Making Metering Matter
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	Product Review - NHS Continues Investment in Boiler Replacement Midlands based boiler makers Wellman Robey report strengthening demand for their range of steam and hot water boilers from the NHS, particularly hospitals in Birmingham and Manchester.
	Product Review - Wellman Robey Do National Service The MOD has ordered 3 more hot water boilers from the Wellman Robey Loos range of High Pressure Hot Water units for RAF Fairford, each rated at 1600kW output and fired on Light Oil.
	Product Review - Housing Estate In Hot Water The boiler hire division recently had an emergency call-out to provide hot water to a block of flats in South London which, with tenants in residence, were undergoing refurbishment.
	Product Review - Steam Traps Help Reduce Carbon Emissions Heinz look to save more than 4% of its energy consumption at its Wigan factory after signing a 3-year steam trap management contract with Spirax Sarco, following success with a previous, one-off steam trap survey.
	Product Review - 3-Phase Motors That Meet Stringent Energy Demands Baldor announces the European availability of NEMA 3-phase motors that meet the increased energy efficiencies demanded by the US?s Energy Independence & Security Act (EISA), which comes in on 19.12.2010 and sets stringent new standards for a range of 3-phase motors (including explosion proof, severe duty and brake motors) with power ratings from 1-500 HP.
	Product Review - London Hospital Buys British In developing a new CHP installation, King?s College Hospital replaced five 40-year-old boilers with three Yorkshireman packaged steam boilers from UK-based Byworth Boilers, and to maximize energy efficiency each boiler was fitted with flue gas economizers to extract heat from flue gases to pre-heat the feed water.
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	Hazardous Waste Regulations - Your Compressed Air System and Compliance Plain ignorance should not be an issue since the Environment Agency have provided many pieces of information on their website and in the form of information booklets.
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	Maintenance Management - Its Auditing & Benchmarking by Tony Kelly
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	Providing Practical Engineering Skills Training For Industry
	Offline Filtration
	Job Done
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	Only Get Clever When You Need To.... As with many such challenges, solutions are often sort with the assistance of the ubiquitous computer controlled management system and Building Management Systems (BMS) have often been seen as the way forward.
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	Controlling Dust Levels In Industry At its best, dust is a nuisance. At its worst, it is a killer. This may seem a touch dramatic yet it is a fact that many dusts that are common within work places can cause serious health problems or even premature death.
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	For press-formed valves and diverters
	Dust Extraction Group Ltd has been providing the manufacturing and process......
	Dust and Fume Extraction Hoses from Masterflex
	Dust Extraction
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	'Keeping It Simple' - Is The Best Approach To Effective Loading Bay Design Probably because it is the most straightforward of the key considerations, door sizing is usually considered first in loading bay designs.
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	Fast In...Fast Out Fast Energy Saving
	You'll Buy It Because....Then You'll Wonder How You Ever Did Without It!
	Klimate High Speed Doors Helping You Solve Your Energy Requirements
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	Juicy Red Tomatoes Rely On RFID H M de Jong are a well known and widely respected company based near Rotterdam, who have set up a new, innovative and low energy consumption, high-bay warehouse for fresh fruit, holding up to 12,400 pallets.
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	Protection and Inspection
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	MiniTec Profile System...Save Time!
	STS Side-Shift Depalletiser
	Simplify Pipe Joining
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	Discrimination In The Workplace The legislation in question is the Disability Discrimination Act introduced in 1995 which sets out specific obligations upon all employers irrespective of size.
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	Product Review - Parkersteel Drawn To Demag Magnet Cranes Materials handling specialist, Demag Cranes & Components, has supplied three Steelmaster crane systems to ParkerSteel, as part of the development of a new 14 acre steel processing and distribution facility at Shoreham Port.
	Product Review - Award Winning Safety Standards Toyota Motor Manufacturing (TMUK) has installed A-Safe plastic barrier systems throughout its Derby manufacturing site.
	Product Review - New Pocket Vibration Meter The GA2002 from Castle Group has been designed to make light work of industrial vibration measurements.
	Product Review - Helping Selex S&As Stay At The Forefront of Defence SELEX Sensors & Airborne Systems manufactures infra-red detectors for both civil and military applications.
	Product Review - Try Something New: A Coprisystems Canopy Sainsbury?s Andover supermarket has tried something new itself: a CopriSystems loading bay canopy, installed to provide protection for goods and operatives during unloading.
	Product Review - Clive Joins Cargo Clive Williams has recently joined Cargo Automated Storage Systems as Sales Director.
	Product Review - New LED Luminaire With Energy Saving Optics Featuring 24 or 48x100 lumen/W LEDs in each fixture, LEDPAK? from Dialight is a new LED lighting solution with unique optics that allows it to direct light where it?s most needed resulting in 30% energy saving and/or increased luminaire spacing.
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	Product Review - 80 Years of Pipeline & Steelwork Protection This year marks the 80th anniversary of Denso Petrolatum Tapes and continues the long success story that shows no signs of ending.
	Product Review - Expanded Range of Industrial Vacuums Flextraction Ltd has launched two new Mitsral industrial vacuums designed for a multitude of cleaning applications including general industrial cleaning of floors, equipment and facilities in factories and offices.
	Product Review - Compressor Aids Waterway De-Silting An Atlas Copco compressor is at the heart of an aeration system that agitates water to overcome the build up of silt against tidal doors that protect the guillotine gates of the Denver Sluice on the River Great Ouse in Norfolk which controls the water levels and prevents high tides from flooding low-lying areas.
	Product Review - Calibrated Portable Instruments KIMO, through their UK distributor Nationwide Technical Products Ltd, have launched a revised range of calibrated portable instruments targeted at the HVAC industry and plant and works engineering professional user.
	Product Review - Health & Safety Initiative Integrated materials handling solutions provider, SDI Group UK, has launched an H&S initiative to provide an enhanced service to its maintenance customers aimed at reducing accidents, improving risk management and ensuring legislative compliance.
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	Be Wise When You Advertise
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	Product Review - Maximising Production Line Performance Learn how to maximise production line performance by registering for the MettlerToledo Checkweighing webinar on Thursday 23 July ? 10.15am or 2.15pm.
	Product Review - Smoke Detection For Croatian Warehouses Fireray reflective beam smoke detectors (50R & 100R), from Fire Fighting Enterprises, have recently been installed in warehouses around Croatia.
	Product Review - Improving Health & Safety The HSE has issued statistics for 2008 showing that only 13% of employees believe their organisations are effective at controlling the slip and trip risk.
	Product Review - Machinery Protection Sara?s new Sprint 300MP machinery protection door proves that productivity and safety don?t have to be mutually exclusive.
	Product Review - Escalator Access In-house maintenance crews can easily assemble the Lobo System, which means out-sourced scaffolding labour costs can be reduced without comprising safety.
	Product Review - Knee & Elbow Protection Comprehensive range to suit every application. Ergonomic design. Comfortable and secure fit
	Product Review - New 'Flex' Coupling A new high performance, general purpose, elastomer coupling has been introduced by Rexnord, which offers 25% higher torque ratings and 40% greater stiffness than its equivalent standard elastomer coupling range.