June 2021

CDI ENERGY PRODUCTS, a leader in high- performance polymer components, has announced its latest material to achieve API 610 recognition outperformed service life expectations under extremely corrosive sulfuric acid conditions. API 610 is the standard for centrifugal pumps for petroleum, petrochemical and natural gas industries. CDI’s proprietary thermoplastic polymer composite, dures 200, was the foundation for critical components developed for an API 610 Vertical Single Casing Diffuser Pump (VS1) for a high-production sulfuric acid plant. CDI’s material scientists and engineers collaborated with the pump OEM to custom design suction bell eye case rings, bowl eye case rings, and bowl bushings which could sustain differential pressures of over 200psi, coupled with an extreme temperature profile of 20°F to 105°F ( 28.8°C to 40.55°C). w | www.CDIProducts.com HUMIDITY SOLUTIONS has announced a new offer to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the production of the Vapac brand of humidifiers in the UK. The 50:50:50 promotion offers 50% discount off list price for the first 50 orders received after 25th June 2021, to celebrate 50 years of humidifiying. The company says the Vapac brand has been the dominant electrode boiler humidifier for the past 50 years, providing a stable and reliable product with continuity of spares and consumables. John Barker of Humidity Solutions commented: ‘The move to buy British is strong after Brexit and Covid, so the security of knowing that the product you are purchasing is home produced and supported by a UK company providing units, spares and technical support is reassuring and a secure, risk free choice.’ w | www.humiditysolutions.co.uk AIRMASTER, the CMC-owned embedded air compressor controls brand for OEMs, has revealed its next generation of controllers after launching AIRMASTER FIT. The company says the new product, is already boosting the health of companies across Europe including Turkish firm Aykom Compressors, and has been designed to control small and medium-sized industrial equipment such as rotary screw, rotary vane and piston air compressors. FIT includes a 2.4-inch colour graphic display protected by a durable ABS plastic enclosure and IP65-rated fascia protection. It is also MODBUS, command and control and IoT-ready, which means it can easily be integrated with any factory control system. AIRMASTER FIT is expected to be well received by OEMs looking for an advanced yet affordable controller capable of asset group control. w | www.controlcompressors.com / www.cmcnv.com SENSONICS is one of the UK’s leading suppliers of turbine supervisory and high integrity protection equipment to industry. The company says this position has been established thanks to over 40 years of experience in providing vibration, position and speed instrumentation solutions. Sensonics has confirmed the expansion of its service offerings supported by important investment which will help it to meet the growing and changing requirements of its customers.Sensonics says it has always recommended that critical sensing and protection equipment is maintained and calibrated annually to meet accuracy and efficiency demands whilst also following industry best practice. Its expanded on-site calibration services include experienced site engineers backed up by UK manufacturing and specialised engineering resources and calibration of vibration sensors and proximity probes is a service it offers on-site. t | 01442 876833 e | sales@sensonics.co.uk w | www.sensonics.co.uk / www.sensonics.co.uk/ machinery-monitoring-protection-and- measurement-experts/maintenance-and-support/ Calibration & site support services After twelve months construction work, BUNTING’S European managing director Simon Ayling officially opened the extended Bunting-Redditch facility. The revamped facility includes additional manufacturing and storage space, a new ‘Customer Experience Centre’, and offices. “Despite delays and challenges due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we now have a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility, which is already providing the additional space needed to fulfil the growth in orders,” said Simon Ayling. The Bunting Group is one of the world’s leading designers and manufacturers of magnetic separators for the recycling and waste industries with manufacturing facilities in the USA and Europe. The facility investment programme increased both the manufacturing floor and office space by 50%. The additional manufacturing space is already being utilised by the production team manufacturing large orders such as a recent export project for one Eddy Current Separator. t | 01442 875081 e | press@buntingeurope.com w | www.mastermagnets.com Redditch facility officially opened High-performance polymer material 50:50:50 Offer to celebrate anniversary ESAB has announced an improved OK Flux 10.99, an agglomerated neutral basic flux designed for submerged arc welding in heavy industrial environments like petrochemical plants, offshore construction, transport, LNG and LEG tanks, pressure vessel, and pulp and paper industries. The company says the enhanced formula of the flux works, in combination with selected austenitic and nickel-based wires, performs equally well with either AC or DC+ current, and provides significantly improved slag release, increased productivity and better weld quality. “The high basicity of OK Flux 10.99 provides superior impact and toughness,” says Paolo Torchiana, global product manager, ESAB. “Its excellent weldability in 1G and 2G positions is very smooth with much easier detaching slag. The end result is a very clean bead shape and appearance with good wetting.” w | esab.com 32 | Plant & Works Engineering www.pwemag.co.uk June 2021 Process, Controls & Plant Improved flux for industrial environments Next generation of controllers