March 2019

Amidst the current political uncertainty, BRAMMER BUCK & HICKMAN, a leading UK industrial supplies specialist, says it has conducted its own extensive Brexit survey amongst its supplier database. From this survey, Brammer Buck & Hickman says it has identified seven key threats to production line continuity and stock maintenance, which have been detailed in a white paper – ‘Brexit: The Seven Major Risks To The Continuity Of Your Production Line That You Haven’t Considered’. This white paper includes devised recommendations and plans for the various logistical impacts that Brexit will bring. A key example of one such threat can be found in the supply chain, where increased complexity and cross-border duties and regulations will in turn lead to increased costs and inventory management challenges for UK businesses. Visit https://www.brammerbuckandhickman.com/ pdfs/brexit.pdf t | 0870 240 2100 e | marketing.uk@brammer.biz w | www.brammerbuckandhickman.com/#bloc -news RIELLO has announced its RX premix packaged burners are now available in outputs up to 3MW, offering NOx levels of less than 40mg/kWh, with high turndown ratios of up to 8:1, across a wide range of models. The company says Riello RX burners feature an exclusive design that includes a patented woven wire gauze ‘sock’ covering the combustion head cylinder. Gas and combustion air are mixed upstream of the combustion head and then pass through precision- located ports and the gauze ‘sock’ to ignite on the external surface of the combustion head. This arrangement enables a very compact flame with a diameter directly related to the burner firing rate, ensuring precise heat control and optimum efficiency at all loads. t | 01480 432144 e | info@rielloburners.co.uk w | www.rielloburners.co.uk The UK’s largest provider of design, manufacture and support services for heat exchanger and boiler equipment has reportedly been created through a new partnership between Green’s and THORNHILL. With multiple UK sites offering in-house design, fabrication, testing, repair and refurbishment complemented by on-site inspections, repairs and installation, the combined group says it offers the UK’s widest range of services available from one supplier. Thornhill’s managing director Simon Tin says: “We work in the same industries as Green’s so to be able to offer our current and prospective customers a broader range of products and services will add significantly to the value we can provide.” Thornhill, which has sites in Yorkshire, the North East and the Midlands provides is a UK provider of the complete cycle of heat exchanger services. w | www.thornhillheatexchangers.co.uk Water, petroleum, oxygen and CO2 vapours can cause huge problems - especially when they get into the wrong place. Water vapour alone (surprisingly the world’s most damaging contaminate) costs the UK several billion pounds every year through rust and rot. Vapours permeate through every material and container, causing pharmaceuticals to lose potency, machinery to stick, electronics to fail, food to rot and seals to leak. VERSAPERM says its upgraded range of permeability meters is designed to test, measure and quality control in all manner of equipment, products, machinery and packaging to reduce these problems. The company says this system produces fast accurate results in the PPM (Parts per Million) to PPB (Billion) range and can quality control permeability for virtually any gas or vapour including hydrocarbons, solvents, hydrogen, oxygen and CO2. t | 01628 777668 e | info@versaperm.com w | www.versaperm.com Quality control and vapour permeability TKS transformer terminal Transferring ingredients from barrels and other similar storage vessels is an essential requirement in many food and brewing processing applications, for example flavour concentrates used in the manufacture of crisps. However, once the liquid concentrates are removed how do you deal with the sticky residues that remain and which are difficult to remove? At one large UK crisp manufacturer the problem of stubborn, sticky residues was occurring after flavour concentrates had been transferred from 600mm barrels. THE SPRAY NOZZLE PEOPLE provided the crisp manufacturer with its Orbitor Eco fast cycle small rotary jet cleaner and this was trialled on their small tanks against several competitor machines. Following the trials the Oribitor was selected as it was judged to provide a better overall clean as well as being a more robust option that would last longer. t | 01273 400092 e | ivan@spray-nozzle.co.uk w | www.spray-nozzle.co.uk/orbitor-eco Fast cycle tank cleaner Industrial heat exchanger solutions Brexit: The 7 major risks Premix burners now up to 3MW CONTA-CLIP reports it has added a transformer terminal for wire cross-sections up to 16 mm 2 to its TKS series. The terminals are used to adapt coil ends to screw connections to implement power supply of specific devices or machinery in a larger system. The company says their hinged cover elements open wide and can be fixed in place when opened to enable comfortable, time- saving soldering of the coil ends. The new, two-pole TKS 16 terminal like all terminals from this series can be mounted directly on a core with integrated receptacles or on aluminum 10 x 2 mm DIN rails. Conta-Clip says the proven clamping yoke system accomplishes a secure, vibration-resistant connection and the closed housing design ensures touch safety in compliance with DGUV provision 3. t | +49 . 5257 . 9833 - 0 e | christian.quade@conta-clip.de w | www.conta-clip.com 32 | Plant & Works Engineering www.pwemag.co.uk March 2019 Process, Controls & Plant