Big is good: the case for long-wheelbase vans

Some company fleet buyers are now turning to long-wheelbase delivery vans in preference to light trucks with box bodies. Provided that the Gross Vehicle Mass (GVM) is less than 4.5 tonnes, these vans can be driven on a Class One passenger vehicle licence. However, should that tonnage be exceeded then a Class Two heavy transport licence is required.

Unique and cost effective pulse encoder

A LARGE number of modern applications call for some form of motor speed and/or position monitoring – be it just so a system knows the motor is rotating and in which direction, or to know the actual position of the machine.

Crusher exceeds expectations at Hunua

THE first Metso HP4 crusher installed in Australasia has achieved impressive crushing efficiencies and increased capacity at Winstone Aggregates’ Hunua Quarry.

PAINT applicators and end users – for example, hospitals, rest homes, schools, the hotel industry and food processing plants – are not aware that acrylic paints applied to the interior of buildings can be the biggest contributor to indoor air pollution.

It's the final countdown

IT IS amazing to think that we are beginning the final countdown to the 2009 National Maintenance Engineering Conference on November 11.

GLOBAL warming might seem an incongruous subject to present to a group of engineers, tradesmen and line managers.