• • • CONTENTS • • • News February 2022


8 Majority stake in H&MV Engineering bought by private equity firm


9 Sisk acquires Fuse Rail


10 Government backs Blyth gigafactory to build electric vehicle batteries


Editor’s COVER STORY


mergency generator or permanently installed standby generator, whichever you choose, power continuity isn’t guaranteed. While you focus on your day-to-day operations never expecting random power outages to happen to your buildings, the inevitable does happen and more frequently than ever. NHS, healthcare sectors, hospitals and care homes, generally have business power protection in place, for life saving potential. Yet, business continuity is mostly left to chance, says Power Continuity’s director John East.


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MARCH FEATURES Enclosures


Rail Industry


Safety in Engineering Test & Measurement Training


Supplement: UPS & Standby Power Show Preview: Infrarail


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Interview 12 Simon King speaks to Mark Abbott, managing director of Ansell Lighting


Features


Safety in Engineering 15 The decarbonisation movement and the need for safe digging


Energy Efficiency 16 How to maximise your CHP efficiency


18 IE5 motors help paint show realise annual energy saving


19 Cleaning up product design with heating technology


Electrical Safety Testing 20 Making ligt work of LED luminaire safety testing


Cabling & Cable


Management 22 A stripper that keeps it clean


24 Delivering innovative products and optimum performance for 10GBASE-T networks


Batteries & Chargers 26 Bridging the energy gap with battery storage


Electric Vehicles 28 Enabling higher power delivery network performance with fixed-ratio converters


30 Powering the EV market with battery purity


32 Electric vehicles’ unsustainable little secret


UPS & Standby Power 34 Introducing the new Kohler Medical Isolated Power Supply (MIPS) medical IT system


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