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News
24/05/2013
Deep groove ball bearings – the most common form of rolling bearings – from NSK are now available with improved reliability, thanks to a eur100 million investment in R&D.
The advance, which is claimed to work even in extreme environments, is due to new seal technology, better lubrication and greater operational efficiency through design.
NSK ...
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24/05/2013
Patrick Kniveton, head of engineering improvement at Rolls-Royce Marine ...
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23/05/2013
Skills minister Matthew Hancock has invited the Industry Apprentice ...
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23/05/2013
Ghanaian power producer TAQA is reporting that UK-based electrical ...
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22/05/2013
Global manufacturers, including Heineken, PepsiCo and Siemens, have agreed ...
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22/05/2013
Rigid plastic packaging manufacturer Sharpak Aylesham says it expects ...
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21/05/2013
BES (the Bureau of Engineer Surveyors – a professional sector of the ...
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Features
30/04/2013
So how was it for you? Did last month's speech by the Chancellor strike you as a budget fit for an 'aspiration nation'? Or did it leave you worried that, at least as far as wealth-generating manufacturing industry is concerned, it was still too little, too late?
Yes, there was the £2,000 National Insurance rebate, aimed at improving smaller ...
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24/04/2013
Can outsourcing give you anything more than you can get from your own maintenance department?
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15/04/2013
Often overlooked – and that includes in terms of maintenance – steam generation and distribution systems are ripe for some serious energy and cost saving.
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15/04/2013
It's instructive to find that, even in 2013, new sensing technologies are being developed that can transform industrial measurements.
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