The PermaNet system transmits leak data collected from Permalog+ loggers directly to an office computer wirelessly via network radio or SMS repeater. The effectiveness of Permalog® technology has been proven all around the world – from Las Vegas to Beijing – and in some of the harshest conditions on earth. Easily installed on pipe fittings, the loggers listen for the noise made by water leaking from pipes and, when a potential leak is detected, they enter an alarm state and transmit a radio signal to indicate a "LEAK" condition.

ATEX certified semi-automatic liquid filling system

Weightron Bilanciai Ltd have installed a bespoke ATEX certified semi-automatic liquid filling system at Leighs Paints’ plant in Bolton. Based around two articulated arm gravimetric filling machines, the installation is helping the company keep up with demand for its extensive range of industrial paints.

Sanitary pumps, sanitary drum and bin unloaders and pressure washers

Any food or pharmaceutical manufacturing company will be aware of the stringent standards laid down by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).  In the modern world, quite rightly dictated by a culture of health and safety, processors will ignore the rules at their peril because, given the chance, a wide range of micro-organisms such as e-coli, salmonella and a regime of other germs alongside food residue particles will harbour on the cleanest surfaces and within fine creases and corners of steel fabrications.  

A new brochure issued by John Crane has focussed attention on the expanding range of advanced hydrodynamic bearings which the company offers. These bearings are able to satisfy the most stringent of today’s performance requirements and complement John Crane’s wider offering to the global rotating equipment market. That offering also includes mechanical seals, fluid control systems, power transmission couplings and advanced filtration systems.

Sealless drum pumps is designed for light to medium duty

In many liquids handling applications, especially those occurring in surface treatment and finishing processes, safe and efficient transfer of acids, chemicals and corrosives from tanks, drums and carboys is best achieved using a drum pump. Finish Thompson are acknowledged as a leading manufacturer of these type of pumps and their new EF Series is claimed to be the most competitively priced and highest quality drum pump in its class.