All Pumps articles – Page 2

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    Electric shock

    2020-03-10T00:00:00Z

    The announcement that the government is planning to bring forward the ban on the sale of new petrol, diesel and now hybrid vehicles to 2035 or sooner has sent shockwaves through the industry. Though dealers understand that alternative fuels have to be on the agenda, many believe the ...

  • Grip Hero research shows cut in hand-protection-related plastic waste
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    Grip Hero research shows cut in hand-protection-related plastic waste

    2019-10-25T00:00:00Z

    GripHero, the developer of the world’s first fuel nozzle-mounted hand-protection dispenser, has announced that it has succeeded in cutting hand-protection-related plastic waste on forecourts by an average of 55%.The news follows a detailed study of forecourts using GripHero’s dispensers to determine how they performed in comparison to conventional glove dispensers ...

  • Hockenhull Garages installs Brenntag AdBlue dispenser
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    Hockenhull Garages installs Brenntag AdBlue dispenser

    2019-10-04T00:00:00Z

    Hockenhull Garages has installed a customer operated self-service unit (COSSU) manufactured by Brenntag to dispense AdBlue at its Shell garage in Corby. Robert Spooner, operations director for Hockenhull Garages, said: “We developed this forecourt in 2017 and as part of the development installed two AdBlue dispensers. These proved to be ...

  • Argus predicts rapid expansion of car AdBlue pump network
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    Argus predicts rapid expansion of car AdBlue pump network

    2019-10-02T00:00:00Z

    The European passenger car AdBlue pump network has more than doubled since 2017 and is likely to quadruple by 2025, according to research by commodity news and price reporting agency Argus. AdBlue has been required in most new diesel cars and vans in Europe since 2016, and new diesel vehicles ...

  • Europump supports expansion of fuel pump maintenance service
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    Europump supports expansion of fuel pump maintenance service

    2019-07-12T00:00:00Z

    Europump has introduced new technology to support expansion of its fuel pump maintenance services for fuel retailers. It has deployed the latest cloud and mobile technology as part of a real-time system for managing field engineering operations. Supplied by Leeds-based BigChange, the system uses an app called JobWatch that connects ...

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    Trigger happy

    2019-05-06T00:00:00Z

    Lincolnshire Co-op’s £1.6m redevelopment of its Whaplode Food Store and Filling Station included major work on the forecourt itself. It was reconfigured to improve the exit and to make better use of space around the pumps, which allowed new customer parking to be created in front of the new, larger ...

  • Dover Fueling Solutions launches new Tokheim Quantium 510M
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    Dover Fueling Solutions launches new Tokheim Quantium 510M

    2019-04-10T00:00:00Z

    Dover Fueling Solutions (DFS) has launched the new Tokheim Quantium 510M fuel dispenser series.The Quantium 510M fuel dispenser range is the next generation of the Quantium fuel dispenser family, introducing more models to choose from, with a number of new features.This dispenser family is led by the Quantium 510M FHR ...

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    Dover Fueling Solutions exhibits with TSG for first time

    2019-04-05T00:00:00Z

    Dover Fueling Solutions (DFS), a Dover company delivering fuel dispensing equipment, electronic systems and payment, fleet systems, automatic tank gauging and wetstock management, will be exhibiting alongside its distribution partner, TSG, at this year’s Forecourt Show. The event – from April 8-10 at the NEC – will be the first ...

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    Eurotank Service Group relaunches fuel pump maintenance arm

    2019-03-29T00:00:00Z

    Eurotank Service Group is relaunching its fuel pump maintenance business as a separate entity to better reflect the division’s operations. As of April 1, Europump Maintenance Limited will provide UK fuel retailers with a pump and tank gauge maintenance service on a contract or ad hoc basis. The company’s experienced ...

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    Displays that pay

    2019-03-11T00:00:00Z

    If you’re looking to make changes to your forecourt perhaps by investing in new equipment or are considering a move to a different fuel brand, then a trip to The Forecourt Show 2019 is a must. The Show takes place at the Birmingham NEC from April 8-10 and will feature ...

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    Forecourt equipment manufacturer OPW has launched its new website

    2019-02-15T00:00:00Z

    Forecourt equipment manufacturer OPW has launched its new website opwglobal.com. It is designed to be easy to navigate, mobile and responsive and is intended to embody OPW’s commitment to defining what’s next across the globe with fluid-handling solutions. “The new OPW website was designed from start to finish with our ...

  • GripHero begins rolling out fuel-nozzle hand protection
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    GripHero begins rolling out fuel-nozzle hand protection

    2018-10-10T00:00:00Z

    GripHero, the developer of a new hand-protection dispenser that enables drivers to avoid contact with contaminants on fuel handles, has started the distribution across the UK. BP Whitehouse Services in Okehampton, which has over 1,500 fuel customers a day, became the first forecourt in the country to install GripHero, which ...

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    Gilbarco Veeder-Root soups up engineer service to dealers

    2018-10-03T00:00:00Z

    Forecourt equipment and services provider Gilbarco Veeder-Root has invested in route planning software from Fast Lean Smart (FLS) to improve the service its engineers provide to dealers. When FLS approached Gilbarco with promises of radically improved scheduling efficiency through automation, David Cope, UK operations director for Gilbarco Veeder-Root, was sceptical ...

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    Yara UK expands Air1 AdBlue plant capacity

    2018-08-31T00:00:00Z

    Yara UK has expanded its Air1 AdBlue plant capacity to meet increasing demand. Until 2018, Yara in the UK had Air1 AdBlue storage capacity of eight million litres at terminals located at Immingham and Dagenham. Due to increasing demand, as the AdBlue market continues to develop, capacity has now been ...

  • Dover Fueling Solutions’ Dundee plant awarded ISO  45001:2018
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    Dover Fueling Solutions’ Dundee plant awarded ISO 45001:2018

    2018-07-13T00:00:00Z

    Dover Fueling Solutions (DFS), a Dover company that delivers advanced fuel dispensing equipment, electronic systems and payment, fleet systems, automatic tank gauging and wetstock management, has been awarded the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 45001:2018 Occupational Health and Safety System (OHS) standard for its manufacturing facility in Dundee.The recently released ...

  • Welcome Break increases sites with Air1 AdBlue dispensers
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    Welcome Break increases sites with Air1 AdBlue dispensers

    2018-07-04T00:00:00Z

    Air1 is celebrating extending its relationship with Welcome Break with the motorway services operator adding AdBlue dispensers at more of its sites. The first of the bulk AdBlue dispensers were installed at South Mimms and Oxford Service stations in 2012, and by the end 2014 Welcome Break had seven of ...

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    Dover businesses and Kingspan form partnership

    2018-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Two major equipment companies have formed a partnership to offer a package of AdBlue retail dispensers and storage tanks. Dover Fueling Solutions (DFS), which comprises the businesses of ClearView, Fairbanks, ProGauge, Tokheim, Wayne Fueling Systems and OPW’s Fuel Management Systems, has teamed up with Kingspan, a leading suppier of above-ground ...

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    Dover Fueling Solutions appoints Dundee-based MD for EMEA

    2017-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Dover Fueling Solutions (DFS) has appointed a managing director of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Jeroen de Gruijter will report directly to David Crouse, the president of DFS, and will be based in the DFS manufacturing centre in Dundee, Scotland. This appointment comes after brands such as Tokheim, Wayne ...

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    Remodelling the market

    2017-05-15T00:00:00Z

    While pumps are a crucial piece of equipment for every forecourt operator, the market had attracted very little scrutiny from outside the industry until a major upheaval during 2016. The year began with a US conglomerate, Dover Corporation, taking over the product divisions of Tokheim Group, which makes dispensers and ...

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    Kärcher and Tokheim Service Group form a strategic partnership

    2017-05-08T00:00:00Z

    Kärcher and Tokheim Service Group (TSG) have come to an agreement to form a strategic partnership, by which the cleaning specialist and the provider of services and fuel retailing solutions will join forces in the car wash industry.“Kärcher will increase its focus on development, engineering and manufacturing in order to ...