New Intertec steam heaters launched
Intertec has developed a new range of steam heaters for field instrumentation protection applications. Offering a choice of vertical, horizontal or panel mounting styles with four power outputs ranging from around 65 to 490 W, users can easily select the appropriate heater for all common enclosure-scale freeze/condensation protection or temperature-maintenance applications.
The new steam range has been developed from the most popular sizes of finned convection heater profiles in Intertec’s electrical heater range.
Dormer taps have better threads
Dormer has launched a new range of DIN standard multi-application taps offering improved thread quality, increased productivity and reduced cost per threaded hole.
Branded spectrum, they will be of interest to anyone performing threading operations in steel, alloy steel, stainless, cast iron, copper and aluminium. The new range complements Dormer’s existing ranges of ISO and ANSI standard multi-material taps.
The taps are manufactured from premium quality vanadium powder steel.
Kyocera achieves world record
Kyocera Corporation has announced it has achieved a new world record of 16.6 per cent module efficiency (aperture-area efficiency of 17.3 per cent) for multicrystalline silicon solar modules using 54 cells in the development stage.
To achieve this record, Kyocera further improved its proprietary “Back Contact” technology and module design to optimise the performance of each cell, thus increasing overall energy conversion efficiency.
Explosion cameras launched
CorDEX Instruments Ltd, a developer of portable equipment for explosive atmospheres, has released the Centurion XPG, an Atex-Certified 5Mp digital camera with strobe flash.
The robust Centurion XP-series cameras offer best-in-class visual image capture for petrochemical and chemical applications.
They support applications within Zone 1 IIC T4 type G (Vapour) explosive atmospheres and will provide users with the ability to document equipment with both still and moving images.
Centurion XPG is supplied complete with a charging station, power pack, replaceable battery pack, USB wand and an information CD.
