All Equipment News articles – Page 51
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Caps keep water out
Petroman Environmental Services is launching a simple-to-fit new device that prevents atmospheric water getting into fuel storage tanks and aggravating biofuel problems. Water often gets into even modern, well-maintained fuel storage tanks, and the reason, according to Rodney Carter, managing director of Petroman, is rain and other atmospheric moisture entering ...
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Tokheim eyes award
Tokheim Eye, the forecourt monitoring/control system, has been named a finalist in the Innovation category, in business awards organised by the London borough of Havering. Tokheim Eye brings together forecourt pumps, payment and imagery in one package. High definition (HD) surveillance cameras are interfaced with automatic number plate (ANPR) recognition ...
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Xmo Strata warns against cost cutting
Financial pressures mean safety procedures are being neglected in some areas of the forecourt sector, according to new research by Kent-based sign installation and maintenance company Xmo Strata. The company has analysed the basic causes of more than 1,500 potential safety incidents on filling station forecourts, and warned that the ...
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GB Oils brings in new card payment terminal
GB Oils is aiming to strengthen its dealer support package with the roll-out of the HTEC GemPAY card payment terminal. It says it will enable dealers to process transactions up to 10 times faster while providing increased end-user security in line with the latest PCI DSS legislation. The first phase ...
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Applegreen sites receive high-speed rebranding
Sign installation and maintenance company Xmo Strata has carried out a rebranding programme for 12 Co-op sites acquired by Applegreen and says the contract set new UK standards. "A normal site rebranding will take maybe a week to 10 days, depending on the size of the site, the scope of ...
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Honesty and transparency pays off for Xmo
Sign installer Xmo Strata is celebrating a landmark in the publication of its weekly Health, Safety and Environmental Bulletins on its website, having reached its 360th issue.The company’s health and safety strategy which involves freely sharing data and analysis, particularly about safety-related matters was derided and ridiculed by ...
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PETER HARDING
In my last column, I spoke of an exciting new technology 3D printing. Well, not 10 days after the item, plans for a gun were published on the web and a model made and fired with live ammunition.Before the authorities could act, if anyone polices the web, 200,000 copies ...
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Rontec opts for Tokheim IT to help with growth
Rontec, the secondplaced operator in Forecourt Trader’s Top 50 Indies, has decided to install Tokheim’s Fuel POS solution at 125 sites to support the strategic growth of its business in England and Wales.Rontec identified a need for a new point-of-sale solution that was capable of managing all aspects of its ...
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New website with extra features for Fairbanks
Wet-stock management specialist Fairbanks has launched a new website, fairbanksglobal.com.The new website is customer focused enabling both new and existing customers to access a wide variety of resources, articles and guides ranging from legal environmental compliance to top tips on how to manage fuel stocks. Users will also be able ...
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Static electricity help
The Energy Institute (EI) has updated its guidance for the petroleum industry on dealing with the hazard of static electricity.The third edition of ’Model Code of Safe Practice Part 21: Guidelines for the Control of Hazards Arising from Static Electricity’ provides guidance on identifying and assessing a range of ...
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Istobal grabs opportunity to fill a gap in the car wash market
Car wash chemicals company Istobal is stepping up its efforts in the UK market to fill a vacuum left by some of its competitors, according to sales director Dave Lindon.He said: "Over recent months a few of the more established chemical manufacturers have either stopped producing products for the retail ...
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LCM polishes up sites’ tarnished fuel
LCM Environmental has developed what it describes as "the UK’s first inclusive fuel polishing and sampling service".Peter Crowden, the company’s fuel polishing specialist, explained that the strategy behind the service was that it was always more cost effective for forecourt operators to carry out preventative maintenance rather than reacting when ...
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Gilbarco Veeder-Root opens up new Frontier
Gilbarco Veeder-Root has launched a new range of fuel dispensers.The Frontier Europe, a single and twin product dispenser, is targeted towards retail applications and incorporates the more advanced elements from Gilbarco Veeder-Root’s Multi Product Dispensers (MPDs).It replaces the 397G and comes with MID and ATEX certifications. Features include superior hose ...
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Washing made easier
PSD Codax, the market-leading developer of token-free control systems for car wash equipment, is making car wash and jet wash services even easier for customers to use, with barcode technology in its retail terminal and on forecourt equipment.Forecourt operators who have installed wash equipment with the new Codax Smart-Start option ...
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Tokheim Eye tailors reaction to each customer
Tokheim has unveiled an addition to its Tokheim Eye forecourt monitoring/control system, offering operators opportunities to boost their retail revenue on-site through additional sales.The Retail CRM system links vehicle recognition/tracking with advanced customer relationship management software to provide real-time customer profiling and automatically initiate specifically targeted advertising, based on customer ...
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Equipment column: Kevin Eastwood
A major source of loss for retailers results from motorists who claim to have ’no means to pay’. BOSS estimates the industry lost more than £4m last year and its Payment Watch scheme has been developed to recover as much of this as possible. Obviously, honest mistakes occur and many ...
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Morrisons renews Eurotank maintenance agreement
Morrisons has renewed its tank maintenance contract with Eurotank Environmental for a further three years.Eurotank will continue to undertake all tank maintenance services including tank cleaning and tank and line testing on all 316 Morrisons petrol filling stations as well as 11 regional distribution centres.Ahmed Mulla, Morrisons’ forecourt operations manager, ...
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Forecourt expansion
Structural Science Composites (SSC), a designer and manufacturer of composite manhole access covers, has made a new appointment, one of whose tasks will be developing business in the forecourt sector.Phillip Millward has joined the Barrow-in Furness based company as international sales director, having held a number of senior roles in ...
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Enhanced level of safety with submersible pump
Gilbarco Veeder-Root has released an upgraded version of its Red Jacket 4" Submersible Turbine Pump range.The new pumps fully comply with the latest ATEX European safety standards (ATEX Category 1 EN15268) through design enhancements of the entire unit.The changes create three levels of safety protection covering motor safety, ...
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Low-cost DVR/alarms
VDT Direct, a developer of digital video security equipment, has launched a new range of low-cost DVRs (digital video recorders) with alarm functions, costing from £120.Clive Mason, managing director of VDT Direct, said: "These new DVRs will open up the market for low-cost video alarm systems by eliminating the need ...