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Listen to this article Nigel Keightly The Sekisui Chemical Company has manufactured synthetic wooden products made from Fibre-reinforced Foamed Urethane (FFU) since 1980. First introduced on Japanese Railways 44 years ago, early installations of the product are still performing to specification. FFU is now widely used on railway infrastructure in 33 countries to support track…
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Epax 4020TGN can help improve muscle contractile function and post-injury muscle recovery, a pilot study has found. The pre-clinical in vivo and in vitro research indicates that Epax’s highly concentrated, marine-derived triglyceride oil offers potential benefits for healthy aging and sports recovery. Researchers at the University of South Florida carried out an eight-week dietary intervention…
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Olam Food Ingredients is stepping up its efforts to combat deforestation and promote regenerative agriculture by establishing seven landscape collaborations and implementing regenerative agriculture on more than a million hectares by 2030. These new targets align with ofi’s company-wide Choices for Change strategy and will be further boosted by the cocoa business’ tree carbon stock…
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Listen to this article Bob Clarke In 1985, British Rail was moving to a market/business led structure in which sector managers had a budgetary control and were required to grow their business. For the Inter-City sector, journey time improvements were high on the agenda. Electrification of the East Coast Main Line (ECML) was underway with…
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Listen to this article Rail Engineer has reported widely on Siemens Mobility’s Rail Village in Goole, East Yorkshire, home to its Train Manufacturing Factory, Component Facility, Logistics Centre warehousing facility, and RaisE business centre. The state-of-the-art facility is playing a key role in producing the next generation of UK trains, building the highly anticipated new…
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Listen to this article Back in September 2012 (Issue 95), Rail Engineer carried a feature on cross-industry innovation which considered the potential for the rail industry to adopt technologies developed for the automotive industry, such as lightweighting. This was a recurring theme at various events such as the 2017 Institution of Mechanical Engineers’ Stephenson conference.…
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Listen to this article Embedded rail is used on street-running tramways. The rail section used generally includes effectively a continuous checkrail (known as the keeper) and enables a clear boundary between the paved road surface and the tram running rail. Grooved rail is far from standardised. Twenty-six rail sections are defined in EuroNorms and seven…
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Origin Materials is producing PET caps with new features as commercial qualification continues. The latest caps were produced at a partner’s facility in Germany on Origin’s CapFormer System, its proprietary system for manufacturing recyclable PET closures. The caps, made with recycled PET and designed for compatibility with the PCO 1881 standard, incorporate new features requested…
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Listen to this article The number of UK rail workers suffering serious injuries is increasing. Yes, the railways are inherently dangerous, but health and safety has never been higher on the agenda, so why are the figures not falling? In September, the Office of Road and Rail (ORR) released its 2024 Rail Safety Report. It…
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Rachel Reeves ©House of Commons Names of the business leaders from across the UK being brought together to offer government independent advice and recommendations as it develops a new Industrial Strategy to support its growth mission have been announced. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves and Business and Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds attended the…
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