News and Articles

Bob Clark, Sales Director at Rubix UK Ireland and Iceland, explains why he believes strategic supply chain partnerships play a significant role in strengthening today’s manufacturing businesses.

WEG provided emergency support to a company in the sugar and ethanol sector, performing specialised maintenance on the stator of a 43,750kVA generator critical to the plant’s power generation system.

Acorn Industrial Services shares five key signs that your maintenance strategy is reactive and causing knock-on issues within the business, and offers suggestions to help you operate in a more predictive, condition-led way.

Dynamic balancing specialist CEMB Hofmann UK explains how imbalance on rotating machinery has far-reaching business implications, and why addressing it should be viewed as a business improvement opportunity rather than simply a maintenance expense.

Five new companies have recognised the benefit of AEMT membership in recent weeks, four as full members and one as an associate member.

The updated IEC 60034-30-1:2025 standard has introduced IE5 as a defined motor efficiency classification, giving manufacturers, engineers and end-users a clearer benchmark for specifying high-efficiency motors, as WEG explains.

Gibbons Engineering Group attended the Ardleigh River Intake site on behalf of Anglian Water to disconnect and remove a faulty motor and variable speed drive assembly from a large pump installation.

The AEMT is refining its Codes of Practice programme using feedback from the first companies to complete compliance and verification, with Score Europe among the latest to achieve Verified status.

Mathis Menzel, Managing Director of Menzel Elektromotoren, has been elected Chairman of the Electrical Apparatus Service Association, becoming the first German ever to hold the position.

Hayley 247 Dexis received a David Brown H2-315 parallel shaft reduction gearbox with significant internal damage and carried out a full rebuild to restore its operational reliability.

Menzel Elektromotoren has replaced a slip ring motor that failed through overload on a shredder designed for mixed scrap metal, adding measures to withstand the exceptionally strong vibrations involved.

Fletcher Moorland has marked 80 years in business with a gala dinner in Stoke-on-Trent, celebrating the people, partnerships and engineering expertise that have underpinned the company's success since 1946.

Thomas Marks, Director General at the Association of Electrical and Mechanical Trades, explains why it is essential that the option to repair electromechanical equipment is considered when there is a failure, and why it is vital that manufacturers are no longer able to remove repair as an option before the choice can be made.

Megger has introduced the ICMneo, a portable partial discharge measurement system designed to simplify the testing and condition assessment of medium- and high-voltage electrical assets.

Belzona has demonstrated the strength restoration capabilities of its SuperWrap II composite repair system by driving a five-ton monster truck over a repaired carbon steel pipe.

WEG has launched the W20 Marine, a motor line developed for non-essential naval applications in enclosed spaces such as fans and air conditioning, pumping systems and hydraulic power units.

Rubix has completed its acquisition of ERIKS UK & Ireland, bringing together two multi-specialist industrial distributors and extending the Rubix offer in flow technology.

Prashanth SN, Global Product Manager for IEC Low Voltage Motors at ABB, explains that the days of treating a motor specification as a routine procurement exercise are over. The right choice today carries long-term consequences for operating costs, sustainability credentials, and site safety.

Engineers, maintenance managers and operators responsible for keeping critical rotating equipment running are being urged to take a day away from the day job this September, as the AEMT Conference returns with its broadest programme yet of practical engineering insight, technical expertise, and networking opportunities.

Entering is the only way to be considered, and it costs nothing to try. The AEMT Awards exist to celebrate and promote the best of the electrical and mechanical trades sector. Starting your entry now gives you time to put together a considered submission rather than a rushed one.