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	May-Jun 2009
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	Dry Solutions to acidic problems
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	Talking Shop By the time you read this the Daily Telegraph will have no doubt ended its series of revelations on MPs expenses and perhaps even MPs themselves will have finally woken up to the incredibly deep and genuine public disquiet and anger that exists over what is seen as a wholesale milking of the allowances system.
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	Quartzelec Whether you have a new machine, one that is already in service but perhaps exhibiting vibration or reduced performance or it has been recently refurbished, performance testing is a vital element in determining machine status and validating the machine design or repair work carried out, also ensuring that return to site and service is as quick as possible.
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	The Last Thing You Need In A Down Turn......
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	Detecting Swine Flu and Other Viral Diseases An infrared camera is very effective in detecting, at an early stage, people infected with a viral disease.
	Maintenance Essentials Catalogue RS Components has produced a new catalogue featuring all the maintenance products most demanded by customers.
	easyFairs Appoints New UK MD Mathew Benyon arrives from his role as Group Exhibitions Director with Expomedia. He replaces Peter Heath, who launched easyFairs UK five years ago and oversaw the acquisition (in 2008) of MAINTEC - the only UK show dedicated to asset management and predictive maintenance technologies.
	ABB
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	My Aim Is To Provide A Safe and Professional Service Gary Stubbs is also an award winner, having been voted Maintenance Professional of the Year in 2005.
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	10 Questions To Ask About Your Maintenance Activity and Physical Assets As someone involved in the maintenance of your company?s physical assets ? which may include fixed and moveable plant, vehicles, long-term hire equipment, stock and spares ? you will be aware of the bewildering amount of literature and guidance available on the subject.
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	Visual Planning For Engineering and Maintenance
	Microlog Analysers
	Vibration Analysis Training
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	Pirana CMMS
	An enterprising company knows that improving asset management...improves their efforts...
	Intelligent Maintenance
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	Balancing CMMS User Configurability with Centralised Control For most companies, gone are the days when users were forced to conform to a rigid framework dictated by the CMMS vendor and strictly controlled by the Information Systems department. Users today enjoy freedom to customise the content, look and feel of their CMMS environment on a variety of devices, from handhelds to desktops.
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	Maintenance North West - A Conference and Seminar led Exhibition The event comprises a one-day conference with technical papers and case studies, presented by some of the UK?s leading suppliers of CM, Lubrication, CMMS and Electrical Test Equipment, alongside Maintenance Strategy Implementation Specialists.
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	Genuine Site Access Support
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	See Page 12 - Maintenance North West
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	Ensure your plant is working as reliably, as productively and as cost effectively as possible
	We are specialists in Condition Based Monitoring providing cost effective......
	A comprehensive business system for facilities and maintenance management
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	Are Your Filters Performing To Their True Rating?
	Sensors That Protect Your Plant....
	Revolution
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	Adding Real Value To An Asset Management Contract A recent initiative undertaken by the Westland?s site facilities maintenance department saw Anstee Ware appointed as a specialist facilities management partner.
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	Ramp Up your calibration capability
	Enhance your performance through your people
	J&P Group....maintaining excellence
	VisIR 640 Infrared Vision
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	See Page 17 - Adding Real Value To An Asset Management Contract
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	Protecting Critical Machinery - the value of a complete solution Online vibration monitoring integrated with process control and combined with shutdown protection, predictive maintenance and performance monitoring is a sure-fire way to keep your rotating equipment up and generating revenue.
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	Vibration Problems?
	Absolutely Safe To Run Dry!
	What springs to mind?
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	See Page 20 - Protecting Critical Machinery
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	Bearing Failures Are Costly But Avoidable
	Infrared Thermography for Condition Monitoring
	All inclusive. igus ReadyChain. Rapid installation. With guarantee
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	Protective Paints There?s long been an unpleasant smell in the air in the world of protective paint coverings concerning the use of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs).
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	Stop Your Fretting
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	Product Review - Reducing Refrigeration Energy Costs Poole?s Pies of Wigan is set to reap an 11% cut in the cost of electricity following the installation of ABB Drives to run two major components within its refrigeration plant ? the fan on the evaporative type condenser and the single 315kW screw compressor used to provide refrigerant for the spiral freezer.
	Product Review - First To Secure Prestigious Green Credentials Coil cleaning specialist Advanced Engineering has become the only company of its kind to achieve ISO14001 environmental certification alongside its ISO9001 quality standard, underlining a long-standing commitment to clean, green, air conditioning.
	Product Review - New Compressed Air Filtration Units A new range of compressed air filter units from Hi-line have been designed (with economy and efficiency in mind) for the removal of oil, water, particulates and gaseous aerosols using high performance filtration elements.
	Product Review - Rugged New Stepper Motors The F87 range of stepper motors, with IP68 protection ratings and intended for operation in harsh wet environments, has been introduced by Astrosyn Intnl Technology.
	Make complex stuff simple
	Product Review - New Technical Parts Washer A new, high-tech parts washer, that purifies its own solvent and is ideal for technical parts cleaning, is now available in the UK from the OSS Group.
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	Product Review - Power Alert with Low Profile Mounting The Universal Power Alert (UPA) device from Marsh Bellofram provides a highly visual external indication of live power or stored energy conditions existing within an electrical enclosure.
	Product Review - Connected Components Rockwell Automation has extended its control offering for machine builders with the launch of Connected Components, helping to meet today?s requirements for sophisticated control on stand-alone machines in an affordable, easier-to-implement solution.
	Product Review - First True CIP Hybrid Circumferential Piston & Lobe Pump The RevolutionTM, the latest innovation of Positive Displacement Pumps from Wright Flow Technologies, merges the benefits of two technologies into one to deliver greater product yield, reduced lifetime costs, and high-end cleanability (CIP) giving increased standards of hygiene.
	Two pipes...two screws...two minutes
	New Pressure Transducer Brochure
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	With a highly advanced range of lubricants, cutting fluids and coolants, Millers Oils.....
	Industrial Endoscopes & Cameras
	Your One Stop Shop For Engineering Excellence
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	Maintenance and Asset Management Editorial
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	On-Line Motor Current Signature Analysis Prevents Premature Failure of Large..... Motor Current Signature Analysis (MCSA) is a condition monitoring technique used to diagnose problems in three- phase induction motors that drive pumps and compressors in the North Sea oil and gas industry.
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	What Is DFE (Dynamic Filter Efficiency)? All hydraulic and lube systems have a critical contamination tolerance level that is often defined by, but not limited to, the most sensitive system components such as servo valves or high speed journal bearings.
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	See Page 36 - What Is DFE (Dynamic Filter Efficiency)?
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	Product Review - New Troubleshooting Insulation Meter Compact enough to be held in one hand, yet durable enough to withstand heavy industrial usage, the IDEAL 61-797 tester, with its simple Pass/Fail function, is designed to determine the integrity of insulation in wiring by identifying capacitive, absorption and leakage current at multiple test voltages (50V to 1000V) and resistance up to 20G ohms.
	Product Review - Master Switch For Olympian Data Centres Riello UPS forecasts a surge in UPS and STS installation as UK companies prepare for the 2012 Olympics and has expanded its Master Switch range of Static Transfer Switches (STS) to include models up to 400A.
	Product Review - Spring Time Established in the UK in 1978 Lee Springs is Britain?s No1 Stock Spring Supplier and part of a global group headquartered in the USA.
	Product Review - Same Day Gear Motor Assembly Service Nord Gear Ltd has added a further production line at its Abingdon assembly and service facility, expanding its same-day service for NORDBLOC.1 series helical gear motors.
	Product Review - New Thermal Imaging Camera A new thermal imaging camera from IRISYS (IR 2010) takes the guesswork out of temperature measurement, by fusing visual and thermal images in one screen, has been launched by Irisys to meet the needs of electrical contractors, maintenance engineers, HVAC professionals, energy inspectors and auditors, and engineers in the construction and automotive industries.
	Product Review - Fit For Purpose Monitran reveals details of an innovative stud for mounting its vibration sensors and accelerometers which sees the sensor bonded to the stud via a grub screw.
	Product Review - Simple, Quick and Safe - The New Scaffolding 'Star' From Layher Arrives System scaffolding manufacturer, Layher Ltd, launches a hybrid enhancement to its Allround? & Speedyscaf? systems - the ?STAR Frame?, comprising just two additional components (rectangular frames and separate guard rails) which interface directly with the Allround? rosette design.
	Product Review - New Product Bundle For Metal Manufacturers Kimberly-Clark Professional, a supplier of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), is launching a new product bundle designed for fabricated metals manufacturers.
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	Global Solutions. Local Delivery
	Air Conditioning Is Expensive...Cut Your Energy Bills By Up To 36%
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	Putting The Squeeze On Compressed Air Costs Wasting compressed air is like watching money go up in smoke. People too often treat compressed air as if it is as free as the air around us, when in fact it?s the most expensive utility available.
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	Take The Right Road
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	Run Out of Steam?
	Dunphy combustion services from concept to commissioning
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	Achieving Optimum Performance in Bio-Fuels Production Biofuels production, such as biodiesel and bioethanol, is one of the fastest growing segments of the renewable energy industry.
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	Driving Down The Cost and Environmental Impact of Road Haulage Take the case of Dams International Ltd, one of the top four office furniture companies in the UK with approximately six per cent of the UK market share, who recently celebrated 40 years in business supplying not only the UK but the world with office and contract furniture.
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	Product Review - Free Software RS Components is pleased to offer Omron?s ?SAVER software free for download from rswww.com.
	Product Review - Upgraded Lighting With No Special Outlay Chalmor?s LifeSaver ?pay-as-you-save? scheme has enabled self-adhesive materials manufacturer, Ritrama, to upgrade lighting and controls at its Eccles production centre with no capital outlay - over 3 years, part of the savings achieved on energy costs repay the capital invested by Chalmor.
	Product Review - Brewery Cuts Its Carbon Footprint Daniel Thwaites Brewery, which annually brews 35 million litres a year of beer and packages 75 million litres of beer and cider, is enjoying estimated energy savings of more than ?30,000pa through a three-year steam trap management contract with Spirax Sarco.
	Product Review - Free Power Quality Webinars Fluke is offering free, web-based seminars on Power Quality and Leonardo ENERGY (an initiative managed by the European Copper Institute).
	Klimate High Speed Doors Helping You Solve Your Energy Requirements
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	Product Review - New Steam Boiler Wellman Robey have announced a new ?Easy to Use? steam boiler designed specifically for the medium to small commercial user.
	Product Review - Olympics Success For Dunphy The new Energy Centre for the Olympics site in East London is to be powered by Dunphy multi-fuel burners. As one the biggest installations of its kind in recent years, this sustainable energy centre will be at the heart of the new utilities networks in the Olympic Park.
	Product Review - New Force In The Market Place Wellman Robey (UK) & Wulff Energy Technologies (Germany) announce the formation of Wellman-Wulff Technologies - a new organization specifically geared towards serving the growing High Pressure Steam (Water Tube) process industries, CHP, Waste Heat/Gas Recovery, and Energy from Waste - where the feedstock ranges from different types of gases to a multitude of solid/biomass fuel types.
	Product Review - One Objective Wellman Robeys Repair & Conversion division has just one objective, to reduce boiler-house running costs without interrupting production.
	Product Review - Prison Recalls Wellman Robey The R&C division was first called to Full Sutton in early 2008, when HMP?s Engineering Authority requested a free boiler house assessment to find the best way of ensuring auxiliary hot-water services in the event of the boiler plant failing.
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	Let Your Compressed Air System Reduce Energy Costs and Improve Production Compressed air systems are safe, reliable and versatile, but they are often taken for granted with scant regard to maintenance and cost.
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	Denios Environmental Protection & Work Safety
	At The Heart of Process Industry
	A Filter Is A Filter? Clearpoint Makes The Difference
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	Not Just A Lot of Hot Air! The pressure to optimise energy usage in industry has never been so intense ? rising electricity prices, environmental pressures and the current economic climate are all contributing to tough trading conditions for all businesses.
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	Training That Delivers Manufacturing Cost Reduction Within 6 Weeks?... Is Not Just... Making the right choice, which often includes choosing the radical option and upskilling staff during a credit crunch, can have a massive impact on manufacturing operations and overall profitability.
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	Dust and Fume Extraction Hoses from Masterflex
	RCM MasterClass Forum 2009
	Looking for a more intelligent way to protect your property, facilities, vehicles and equipment?
	Providing Practical Engineering Skills Training For Industry
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	See Page 54 - Training That Delivers Manufacturing Cost Reduction Within 6 Weeks?...
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	Focus On Materials Handling and Storage
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	Save Time. Save Space. Save Money.
	Lifting Businesses
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	Driving Down Handling & Storage Costs As the need to keep a tight budget on expenditure relating to property and running costs becomes more acute, it makes sense to make the most of all available storage space in warehouses.
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	Improving Sainsbury's Green Credentials Exide Technologies (CMP Batteries) has played a key role in the power requirements of the materials handling fleet at Sainsbury?s Distribution Centre at Swan Valley in Northampton, which opened in October 2007.
	Why Buy When You Can Design, Build and Market Your Own Storage System? Countax, a major supplier of materials handling equipment has been manufacturing components and products from sheet metal for over 25 years in their factory near Oxford.
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	Loads Better For Lifting & Handling
	You'll Buy It Because....Then You'll Wonder How You Ever Did Without It!
	Nord Geared Motors....are ideally suited to pump applications
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	The Need For Thorough Examination and Testing of Load Handling Equipment Richard Short, the Sales Director of Penny Hydraulics, reports that most companies are aware of the health and safety regulations that require all items of lifting equipment be inspected regularly, including goods lifts and hoists, because accidents related to lifting continue to represent one of the biggest causes of deaths, injuries and absence in the workplace.
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	Access Platform Sales For All Your Access Requirements
	Your Handling Problems Solved
	Product Review - Materials Handling Problems Solved Handling Concepts specifies and supplies bespoke materials handling solutions, eg manipulators for in-line and offset loads, vacuum & roll handling equipment and light crane systems, in addition to mobile solutions and full production lines.
	Product Review - CMF Builds Success On Demag Cranes Materials handling specialist Demag Cranes has supplied crane systems to Composite Metal Flooring (CMF) at a new 30,000 sq ft factory.
	Product Review - Conveyor System For Rapid, Flexible Handling European Conveyor Systems (ECS) have provided handling equipment in Bristol- based, Davies Turner?s new warehouse.
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	The End of Screed? The BRE reckons that around a quarter of all commercial buildings built each year are BREEAM assessed and that there are some 100,000 buildings in the UK which have been assessed under the scheme.
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	Anti-Slip Fibreglass Floor Grating
	Promotional Gifts
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	Product Review - RCM Masterclass Forum 2009 The RCM MasterClass from EMS Ltd is a highly successful programme for improving reliability and reducing waste by introducing an optimised maintenance and operating regime with a high level of operator involvement.
	Product Review - Health and Safety standby battery maintenance workshop Whether replacing or maintaining batteries, routine testing or helping you to develop in-house skills, Accolade associateS provide a range of workshops that ensure your back-up battery systems will deliver optimum performance, so important for critical standby, telecommunications, solar and motive power systems.
	Product Review - Racksack The problem of managing warehouse waste is easily solved by hanging the new, reusable Beaverswood ?racksack? to end frames around the warehouse, where it fixes neatly onto most racking and shelving systems that are between 900mm to 1100mm deep.
	Product Review - Compair Open Day A chance for CompAir Distributors to get together and hear the latest news and development plans, coupled with presentations from BEKO (a key partner to CompAir) on their BEKOMAT and OWAMAT condensate products.
	Product Review - Noise Instrumentation & Training Noise measurement specialists, Cirrus Research plc, have improved its range of noise instruments, support packages and training.
	Product Review - Bangor WTS Chooses Megadoor Industrial door and docking system company, Crawford UK, have recently supplied the Bangor Waste Transfer Station with their Megadoor product - the only product to meet with the specified speed and noise requirements and provide large clear spans.
	Product Review - A Powerful New LED Solution Dialight?s newly launched ultra high brightness Powerwhite? LV Linear Module product is designed to enable rapid development of many LED lighting applications including existing fixture formats and all-new product designs.
	Product Review - Improving Sustainability in Water Purification ELGA Process Water introduces a new generation of Rapide? Strata deionisers using short cycle SCION? technology and an innovative pulse regeneration sequence which produces less wastewater with shorter downtime and uses less regenerant chemicals than any other deioniser in its class (producing cost savings of up to 40%).
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	Product Review - Clean Steam Generators Boost Hospital's Steam Quality Waterford Hospital in Ireland is using clean steam generators from Spirax Sarco to meet strict steam quality standards in its sterilisation department.
	Product Review - Guide for Rotary Sealing Applications A new publication from fluid sealing specialist James Walker, the Definitive Guide for Rotary Sealing Applications, is proving an essential time-saving tool for engineers working on rotary sealing issues.
	Product Review - Easy 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 - Protecting Sweating Ammonia Tanks Winn & Coales Denso Hi-Tack Tape was chosen to protect two large ammonia tanks at a public service facility in Texas - a continual battle due to constant sweating.
	Product Review - Watco Concrex Rapid Set Watco UK?s Concrex Rapid Set, an addition to the company?s range of Concrex products, is an extra fast epoxy repair mortar for heavy industrial use.
	Product Review - Air/Gas Leak Detection At the press of a button ? GOTEC LDS is instantly ready to locate the smallest low pressure leaks from compressed air and every other gas ? quickly, reliability, safely and conveniently.
	Product Review - Explosion-proof Smoke Detectors Fireray 2000 EExd, a beam-type smoke detector from Fire Fighting Enterprises, is the only such detector certified to ATEX 94/9/EC standard for use in Group 2 hazardous areas.
	Product Review - New 'Phase Out' Advisory Service Walter Meier (Climate UK) has launched a comprehensive service to help owners of chillers, using HCFC refrigerants such as R22 or R123, to determine the most appropriate and cost-effective solution to the challenge of the imminent HCFC phase out.