All Equipment News articles – Page 48
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New owner for Wayne
GE, the parent company of the fuel dispenser and forecourt technology company Wayne, has announced that private equity investor Riverstone Holdings LLC has signed an agreement to acquire the Wayne business. In a statement Wayne said the transaction would enable it to continue to provide world-class service and support to ...
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Innovative sump range
OPW has launched what it claims is the industry’s first Fibrelite GRP above-ground fill sump range. The new range is the result of collaboration with a global oil company and has been specifically designed to replace existing concrete sumps and connect to existing underground piping for easy installation. Featuring Fibrelite’s ...
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Euro Garages opts for Micros EPOS kit
Top 50 Indie Euro Garages is upgrading its estate to the Micros Iridium 2 Prism 2 EPOS system supplied by Micros Systems. Micros will also be the sole supplier to any new Euro Garages forecourt sites, including the 48 Esso sites which it took over earlier this year. Colin Reeve, ...
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Enhancing the shine
Wilcomatic is launching Protect Shine Xpress from the Christ Car Care range, for use with rollover car washes, to give an enhanced shine to cleaned vehicles. As vehicle finishes wear, they lose their original shine through becoming roughed up from normal dust and grit from the road. This means light ...
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Enviroglow unveils energy-saving dairy deck
North-west based energy innovation company Enviroglow has launched what it claims is ’the most efficient open deck dairy case on the planet’. After 18 months of research and development, and live testing, the new open deck refrigeration called E-volve is on target to be available in the UK from the ...
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Module adds extra flexibility to the deployment of Tokheim Eye
The Tokheim Eye forecourt security and retail system, which brings pumps, payment and imagery equipment together, has been enhanced with the introduction of an IP Connectivity module. This enables service station owners/managers to exploit a variety of fresh operational opportunities, according to the module’s developer, Metro Security Tokheim’s international partner ...
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EQUIPMENT NEWS: Xmo Strata uses infographics to spread its message
Forecourt sign installation and maintenance company Xmo Strata has joined the infographics revolution – using the medium to tell some of its corporate story on the web. The first infographics presentation, which lasts less than two minutes, is about the company’s ability to deal with the management of change and ...
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EQUIPMENT NEWS: Wayne partners Wincor Nixdorf
Wayne Fueling Systems and Wincor Nixdorf, the supplier of IT solutions and equipment to retailers and retail banking, have announced they intend to establish a global strategic alliance to provide industry-leading forecourt control, point-of-sale, back-office, and payment solutions to fuel retailing customers around the world. Under this new collaboration, Wayne ...
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EQUIPMENT NEWS: Wet-stock management service to give 360° view
Gilbarco Veeder-Root demonstrated its next generation wet-stock management service, Insite360, at the at UNITI expo in Stuttgart last week. Insite360 is designed to provide a real time 360° view of a retailer’s wet stock through a simple-to-use remote monitoring service. Gilbarco Veeder-Root says real time wet-stock monitoring enables quick detection ...
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LATEST NEWS: New UNITI expo opens tomorrow
UNITI expo, the new European trade fair for the retail petroleum and fuel handling markets, opens tomorrow at the Stuttgart Exhibition Centre in Germany. The new expo, which will run from June 3-5, aims to unite all core and peripheral aspects of the industry under one roof for the first ...
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EQUIPMENT NEWS: New energy efficient open dairy deck
North-west based energy innovation company Enviroglow has launched what it claims is ‘the most efficient open deck dairy case on the planet’. After 18-months of research and development, and live testing, the new open deck refrigeration called E-volve, has gone into full production, and is on target to be available ...
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EQUIPMENT NEWS: OPW claims first with Fibrelite GRP sump range
OPW has launched what it claims is the industry’s first Fibrelite GRP above ground fill sump range. The new range is the result of collaboration with a global oil company and has been specifically designed to replace existing concrete sumps and connect to existing underground piping for easy installation. Featuring ...
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New UNITI expo opens in Stuttgart next month
UNITI expo, the new European trade fair for the retail petroleum and fuel handling markets, opens next month at the Stuttgart Exhibition Centre in Germany. The new expo, which will run from June 3-5, aims to unite all core and peripheral aspects of the industry under one roof for the ...
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Cloud-based solution for Westmorland
Motorway services, hospitality and leisure group Westmorland is planning to roll out a new epos system across its retail outlets in the North and to the Gloucester services, which is currently being built alongside the M5. The company wanted to leverage greater benefits from its retail system, in particular to ...
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Murco chooses Philips for upgraded lighting
Murco Petroleum is upgrading the lighting in its forecourt shops to LED luminaires provided by Philips Lighting, as part of its rolling refurbishment programme. Murco has a network of over 225 company-owned service stations across England, Scotland and Wales, each with a retail outlet operated under the Costcutter brand. It ...
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Tokheim launches a system to identify drive-off criminals
Tokheim has unveiled an integrated solution designed to tackle forecourt drive-offs. The Tokheim Eye Drive-Off Detection system allows operators to detect, manage and deter incidents, and provides an ’end-to-end’ audit trail that will enable police prosecutions and/or civil recovery. The system makes use of surveillance cameras linked to ANPR (automatic ...
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Fresh company takes over from Petroman
A new company has been set up to honour all contracts and maintenance agreements with Petroman Environmental Ltd and Petroman Ltd, which have been placed into liquidation due to shareholder differences. The new company, Vapour Control Systems Ltd, trading as Petroman, has been set up by Petroman founder Rodney Carter, ...
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Codax extends inside
PSD Codax, the developer of token-free control systems for car care equipment, has developed a vending solution for inside the forecourt shop. Retail staff use the Codax terminal at the sales desk to select the required product and print a unique access code. The customer enters the secure six-digit code ...
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MP opens Fairbanks’ headquarters building
The local MP has opened the new offices of wet stock specialists Fairbanks. Rosie Cooper, the Labour MP for West Lancashire, carried out the official opening of the premises at Skelmersdale, and was shown how the company monitors forecourts across the globe. The new offices are located on the White ...
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Durapipe adds options with PLX Blue
Durapipe UK is expanding PLX, its specialist fuel conveyance pipework system, with the launch of PLX Blue, a plastic pipework system specifically designed to transport AdBlue fuel in forecourts and other transport refuelling applications. As AdBlue is becoming more widely used within diesel fuelled vehicles, especially HGVs and tractors, PLX ...