FHWA Grant Will Support Autonomous Crash Truck in North Dakota
Mindset changing on oil and gas safety and profitability
Safety systems continue working silently in the background, chugging along keeping a constant vigil over manufacturing operations to ensure everyone goes home safely at the end of the day. That is safety 101 and something everyone in the manufacturing sector works toward daily. However, when it comes to safety, there can be so much more,…
Top 10: Mega Earthmovers
10.) Bagger 293 bucket-wheel excavator The Bagger 293 bucket-wheel excavator is arguably the largest man-made piece of machinery ever made. Constructed in Germany, the mega earthmover is the Guinness World Record-holder for largest land vehicle – towering at 310 feet tall, 722 feet long, and weighing over 31- million pounds. The bucket-wheel itself is over…
Go With the Flow
Gordon Varney and Lydia Gaunt explain how to select pumps in the water, wastewater and sewage industry THE THREE main pump applications discussed in this article are water, wastewater and sludge. The differences between these fluids can lead to diverse pumping requirements and specific pump selection. Water and wastewater treatment typically run as continuous processes…
Refined product drop hits inland marine sector
Not surprisingly, the Covid-19 pandemic has put a dent in the refined product volumes inland barge operators transport from refineries and chemical plants, particularly along the Gulf Coast, which houses half of the nation’s oil refining capacity. With Gulf Coast refinery and petrochemical plant utilization hovering between 70% and 75% going into the third quarter,…
AMRC perfects the art of micro-machining
Her Majesty’s face was created using a 7-axis Starrag Bumotec S-191 mill-turn centre. Parkin and Thickett’s understanding of the machine’s behaviour allowed them to produce four detailed Queen’s heads – with diameters of 11.2, 7, 2.8 and 1.4 mm – on a single piece of circular brass. The pair used micro end mills supplied by…
Sonoco implementing price increase for uncoated recycled paperboard
Sonoco announced it is implementing a $50 per ton price increase for all grades of uncoated recycled paperboard (URB) in the United States and Canada, effective with shipments beginning November 16, 2020. Sonoco cited significantly longer backlogs at its mills along with continuing inflation of input costs, especially freight and papermaking chemicals as the drivers…
RS Components unveils RS Pro modular LED signal towers
The series is designed to offer OEM automation engineers and maintenance buyers a cost-effective means of visually signalling equipment faults and other machine states, the firm says.
Stora Enso and Tingstad launch formed fiber food service bowls
Stora Enso is introducing its new eco-friendly take-away bowls for food service packaging, PureFiber™ by Stora Enso. The products are free from plastic and PFAS and are designed to help customers replace plastic on-the-go food packaging. The bowls are being brought to market together with the wholesale company Tingstad. The PureFiber™ product range will expand…
House-bound aspiring young design engineers offered chance to conceive their own Rolls-Royce luxury car
Overall winner, as judged by the Rolls-Royce Motor Cars design team, will receive a digitally rendered illustration of their submission, will be driven, along with a friend, to school in a chauffeured Rolls-Royce. One other lucky entrant will also get a luxury ride to school, while their school will receive a Greenpower electric car for…
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