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METTLER TOLEDO is the world’s largest manufacturer of weighing equipment and a leading supplier of analytical instruments for use in industrial and laboratory applications. As well as streamlining processes, improving throughput and enhancing product quality, our innovative solutions also address compliance and connectivity issues.
Our Process Analytics division is a leading supplier to end users and system integrators for liquid analytical measurement solutions to control production processes. Our INGOLD instruments are ideal for the measurement of pH, dissolved oxygen, conductivity, turbidity and CO2. Our range includes sensors, housings, transmitters and cleaning systems.
Our industrial instruments and software optimise operations from receiving to shipping, with solutions for production, end-of-line production inspection and logistics. Our extensive product portfolio includes scales for industry, in-line checkweighers, weighbridges and complete weighing systems together with material transfer technology (Predictive Adaptive Control).
Our laboratory equipment is ideal for research and development, drug discovery and quality control environments. Our extensive analytical portfolio includes titrators, thermal analysers, density meters, refractometers, pH meters and much more.
We also offer tailored service programmes to conform to your business needs as well as meet the growing demands placed on you by your customers. Our range of services includes installation, calibration, preventative maintenance and repairs. We also offer user training and customer seminars plus our regulatory compliance services encompass equipment qualification and standard operating procedures.
Katronic Technologies Ltd. specialise in non-intrusive clamp-on ultrasonic flowmeters, level measurement systems and ultrasonic sensors. All of these systems are based on clamp on ultra-sonic sensor technology and are fully non-invasive.
In order to meet the requirements of every possible flow application each ultrasonic flowmeter employs both the Transit-Time and Doppler ultrasonic measurement techniques in order to ensure a successful reading. The ultrasonic flow meters can be used on a variety of different liquid flow applications including, water, wastewater, power generation, pharmaceutical and petrochemical systems. Katronic supply various clamp-on sensors and flowmeter configurations including portable, fixed installation and fully ATEX certified transmitters for hazardous area solutions and offshore environments.
The ultrasonic transmitters and sensors are constructed of materials designed to operate in harsh environmental conditions. All of our products are completely non-invasive and can be easily mounted without requirement for pipe modification, engineering work or shutdown. The meters can be fitted to various pipe materials and pipe diameters ranging from 6mm to 6m. .
For further information on the KATflow range of flowmeters, please contact Katronic Technologies on 0870 3000 110
E-mail: mail@katronic.co.uk
or visit www.katronic.co.uk.
Yokogawa UK places customer satisfaction as its number one priority. The Company is resolute in its determination to supply quality process control & instrumentation products and automation solutions and by focusing on the needs and expectations of its customers to ultimately become the Industrial Automation Supplier of Choice.
Our VIGILANCE campaign has been developed to reaffirm to our customers that Yokogawa continues to deliver on product and solutions innovation to increasingly bring business benefit to our customer operations, this includes offering professional advice and support around the clock.
With operations in Runcorn, Cheshire and High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire the company specialises in the provision of Advanced Process Measurement Products, Systems & Software Engineering, Training & Maintenance Support, as well as consultation for Advanced Control Studies, Management Information Systems and Safety Management Systems.
We are dedicated to developing the most advanced control and instrumentation products and systems in the world. Today, Yokogawa has a firm hold of its position as a leading manufacturer in the fields of Measurement & Control, Foundation Fieldbus™ technology & information. As a major global player, the company anticipates the needs of the times, continually tackling new challenges and exploring new markets in order to provide the best solutions in the world. Yokogawa’s commitment to innovation is reflected in our extraordinary investments in R&D.
As a result, we have secured more than 7,000 patents and registrations, including the world's first digital sensors for flow and pressure measurement.
For more information about Yokogawa, please visit our web site at www.yokogawa.co.uk
Yokogawa UK Ltd,
Unit 17, Stuart Road
Manor Park
Runcorn,
Cheshire ,
WA7 1TR
VEGA Level measurement, Level switches and Pressure Transmitters - world leading manufacturer of control & switching instrumentation and measurement solutions for Liquids, Solids & Gases for storage, processing and shipping of products.
Whether you want to measure and control sugar in a silo, pellets in a hopper, liquids in a storage tank or solvents in a reactor, or maybe something ‘a little different’ - VEGA have the products and the experience to help you find the solution.
Customers are central to everything we do, from application engineering, manufacturing and supplying a quality product - through to installation advice, commissioning and after sales.
All VEGA products have a 3-year UK warranty.
Applications for all solids and liquids
Level control and Contents measurement
Inventory Control - local and remote
High and Low level switches
Interface measurement and switching
Pressure measurement
Density measurement and switching
Ultrasonic flow systems; portable and fixed
Measurement Technologies:
Radar level Transmitters
TDR Guided Microwave
Pressure Transmitters
Admittance/Capacitance
Differential Transmitters
Vibrating Switches for Liquids and solids
Nucleonic systems for level, density and weighing
Conductivity level switches
Digital Fieldbus Profibus Foundation Fieldbus
Approvals
ATEX
SIL
Marine
Mining (ATEX)
VEGA combine quality of product with years of experience, providing peace of mind knowing you have the right advice and appropriate measurement technology, for your specific requirements, timescale and budget.
VEGA Controls Limited
Kendal House, Victoria Way
Burgess Hill
West Sussex RH15 9NF
For over 25 years, Newson Gale has been in the business of protecting people and assets from the hazards of static electricity.
Static electricity continues to be one of industry’s most significant sources of igniting flammable and explosive gas and dust atmospheres. The Institute of Chemical Engineers and NFPA estimate that at least two serious fires or explosions are caused by static electrical discharges everyday. Published data shows that ignitions from static discharges rank as highly as over pressure faults in petrochemical handling and is second only to mechanical sparks for dust explosions (higher than hot surfaces).
Newson Gale serves industries where processes that generate significant amounts of static electricity have the potential to ignite flammable or explosive atmospheres. The major industries served are:
- chemical / petrochemical manufacturing and distribution
- pharmaceutical / clean room processes
- paints, coatings and solvents manufacturing and distribution
- food and beverage production and distribution
Newson Gale’s commitment to research and innovation in the field of static control has led to the creation of patented industry firsts that optimise the safety of people and protection of plant assets:
Tri-Mode technology: the only system to measure and confirm a positive static dissipative earth connection combined with ensuring only connection to a road tanker will permit product transfers.
Bond-Rite: the first static control clamp to indicate to the operator, via a green flashing LED, that a safe static dissipative bond is continuously monitored for the period of clamp attachment.
Our solutions are divided into three flexible product categories that are specified for customers depending on the level of safety required to protect people and plant assets from the flammable / explosive hazard. The three categories are described as:
Earth-Rite : continuous static dissipative monitoring with positive indication and interlock control outputs.
Bond-Rite : continuous static dissipative monitoring with positive indication.
Cen-Stat: mechanical earthing and bonding devices and hazardous area accessories.
Newson Gale’s sales engineers and network of distributors are on hand to provide direction and helpful advice in identifying optimum product solutions to static hazards for different processes.
Depending on the country specification, our equipment carries ATEX, FM, IECEx and SIL2 hazardous area approvals and certifications and are fully compliant with internationally recognised best practise standards for controlling static electricity:
Cenelec TR50404: Code of practice for the avoidance of hazards due to static electricity (2003).
NFPA 77: “Recommended Practice on Static Electricity” (2007).
American Petroleum Institute: “Protection Against Ignitions Arising out of Static, Lightning and Stray Currents” (2003).
Our website contains a wealth of downloadable information regarding the hazards associated with static and what companies can do to limit static electricity as a source of ignition. The free to download Earthing and Bonding booklet is a good first step in determining solutions that will solve static control problems specific to various manufacturing and handling processes. If readers want to learn more about static electricity in general, our free e-mail subscription, Ear To The Ground, features articles on various subjects linked to static electricity as a hazardous risk. If you wish to subscribe to the above or require information or advice on controlling static in hazardous areas visit the Newson Gale website at:
