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Riventa set to maximise and minimize in Singapore
Leading Singapore engineering consultant InnovEng (S) Pte Ltd has agreed a new partnership with UK-based Riventa, whose testing and monitoring expertise is designed to maximise the reliability of assets such as turbines, blowers and pumps.
InnovEng (S) Pte Ltd, specialists in water and wastewater technologies, equipment and piping installation, as well as electrical and instrumentation, will seek to introduce Riventa’s capability in minimizing whole life costs and energy consumption.
Evelyn Tan, Director at InnovEng (S) Pte Ltd, commented: “We are impressed with what Riventa can offer. Our customers here in Singapore are very keen to use technologies that reduce energy bills and prolong the life of assets”.
Steve Barrett, Managing Director of Riventa, added:
“InnovEng (S) Pte Ltd is a very well-respected business in Singapore, with whom we look forward to working with. In addition to the municipal water and wastewater industries, we are now making positive inroads with the desalination, petrochemical, power and paper industries”.
This latest partnership for Riventa follows recent agreements it has made in Malaysia, India, Brazil and Australia.
Evelyn Tan, Director at InnovEng (S) Pte Ltd in Singapore
UK’S first Commemorative LGBTQ+ manhole cover is installed
A COMMEMORATIVE access cover, commonly referred to as a manhole cover, dedicated to the LGBTQ+ community has been created as part of a partnership between Wrekin Products and Thames Water.
The cover has been designed to symbolise and immortalise the organisations’ allegiance to the community and their commitment to increasing diversity on the streets of the UK.
To bring the cover to fruition, Wrekin completed a unique manufacturing process to provide the water services company with four
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brand-new Unite D400 manhole covers, all sporting the bespoke design.
A unique milling and colouring process was followed so that icons, logos and the iconic rainbow colours – including black and brown to represent LGBTQ+ people from the BAME community – can be showcased on the exterior of each ductile iron cover, ensuring pedestrians will not fail to miss the one-of-a-kind design.
The design was machined into a blank cover utilising a precision CNC machine with a1mm
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carbide cutter spinning at 26,000rpm and removing 5 microns of material at any one time to achieve the fine detail around the symbols. The rainbow colours were then cast using a pigmented epoxy resin, and the symbols and rain drops were polished by hand with the use of an air sander.
The location of the first cover - which was installed on Napier Road junction with Kings Meadow Road in Reading on 02 September in the days leading up to Love Unites Parade & Festival, Reading’s annual Pride celebration - is
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