Lining up runway 27 for departure to CLT. First flight was December 9, 1988. Delivery date was December 23, 1988. Other serials - N416US with USAir - though still wearing Piedmont Airlines titles. Sadly, W/O at LGA on September 20, 1989 while attempting to route LGA-CLT. Aircraft ran off end of runway dropping onto wooden approach light pier, causing aircraft to break in three, and sink in 7-12 meters of East River water. 2 fatalities - r.i.p.
Dalco Food BV, one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of convenience foods, has optimised its cooling process with the installation of two Freshline® LIN-IS (Liquid Nitrogen Injection Solution) from Air Products. With an expanding product range, Dalco needed to speed up processing rates and ensure more accurate chilling. Air Products’ cryogenic systems have not only accelerated cooling and increased throughput, but have also ensured precise dosing of liquid nitrogen so products are at the ideal temperature for subsequent forming and packing.
Air Products installed two Freshline® LIN-IS systems: one was retrofitted onto an existing Haarslev blender and the other was positioned on a new Simo blender. They have replaced the slower, less accurate but common practice of adding frozen product to blenders to control mix temperatures. The liquid nitrogen is dosed by controlled weight and injected directly into the blending process, making cooling far quicker, more consistent and repeatable. Air Products’ nitrogen injectors do not rely on temperature or time control, and achieve immediate heat transfer. This reduces gas consumption and minimises nitrogen waste and ensures temperature control repeatability.
“We needed speed, flexibility and control from our new equipment and Air Products’ cryogenic systems deliver that,” comments Stefan van den Hanenberg, production manager at Dalco Food. “Demand is rising for our vegetarian products so we wanted to work with a partner that could keep our production as streamlined as possible while maintaining excellent product quality. Because the Freshline® LIN-IS automatically injects exactly the correct amount of liquid nitrogen, moisture loss is minimised and texture is perfected.”
A key part of the collaboration between Air Products and Dalco Food was the provision of a control panel, instruments and software, and facilitating communication with Dalco’s existing automated control systems. A thorough understanding of Dalco’s business and true solutions focus enabled this potentially difficult integration to take place quickly and with minimal impact on the customer’s business.
Ann Callens, Air Products’ European business development manager, Food and Cryogenics, adds “All our equipment is designed to customers’ individual specifications following a detailed review of their existing processes, requirements and factory layout. It isn’t simply a question of providing equipment: our work aims to provide genuine solutions and improvements to current or future processing challenges.”
Van den Hanenberg concludes, “Air Products has provided everything we needed and more. The Freshline® LIN-IS systems guarantee optimum conditions for forming and ensure a consistent, homogenous texture. They’re also safe, hygienic and simple to operate, clean and maintain.”
Dalco Foods, based in Oss, Netherlands, was founded in 1975. Still family-owned, it now manufactures over two million products every week, primarily own-label, destined for supermarkets, wholesalers and restaurants all over Europe.
Name Phone Dalco Food BV, one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of convenience foods, has optimised its cooling process with the installation of two Freshline® LIN-IS (Liquid Nitrogen Injection Solution) from Air Products. With an expanding product range, Dalco needed to speed up processing rates and ensure more accurate chilling. Air Products’ cryogenic systems have not only accelerated cooling and increased throughput, but have also ensured precise dosing of liquid nitrogen so products are at the ideal temperature for subsequent forming and packing.
More than 50 new jobs are being advertised by Air Products for its Tees Valley Renewable Energy facility (Tees Valley 2), located in the New Energy and Technology Business Park, near Billingham, Teesside. The full-time and permanent jobs on offer at Tees Valley 2 include senior engineering roles, plant operation, maintenance and administrative positions.
Air Products is using a range of channels to advertise the positions including a dedicated careers website (http://teesvalleyjobs.airproducts.co.uk) and online recruitment websites such as www.totaljobs.com.
Certain roles such as Instrument Technicians and Controls Engineers, will be filled immediately. The remainder of the positions will be added gradually over the next several months.
Construction on the Tees Valley 2 renewable energy facility started earlier this year and currently supports 120 jobs. It is expected to come on-stream in 2016. The facility is located on land next to the Tees Valley 1 (TV1) facility, where 800 people are currently working on the final construction phase.
Tees Valley 2 will convert pre-processed municipal, commercial and industrial waste - otherwise destined for landfill - into reliable, renewable power equivalent to the needs of 50,000 homes in the North East. Every year, up to 350,000 tonnes of non-recyclable waste will be diverted from landfill for energy generation. Alongside Tees Valley 1, it’s the largest energy plant of its type to be built in the UK.
Andrew Connolly, Air Products’ Plant Manager of the Tees Valley Renewable Energy Facility, said: “As we did with Tees Valley 1, we are looking to recruit from Teesside primarily, although we may need to recruit people from outside the region to fill certain positions. There’s a mix of skilled and semi-skilled jobs on offer, and the chance to build a long-term career within an international well recognised company.”
Connolly added: “Once Tees Valley 2 enters commercial operation, the projects will have created over 1500 jobs in the region and Air Products will have invested significant resources into the local economy.”
Stockton Council’s Cabinet Member for Regeneration and Transport, Councillor Mike Smith, said: “I’m delighted that Air Products is moving forward with its second facility and is starting to recruit. It is an excellent opportunity for local people to gain employment and yet another boost for our local economy. It is also really encouraging to see that Air Products is continuing to take advantage of the many skills our local workforce has to offer and recognises that Stockton Borough and the Tees Valley Enterprise Zone is a great place to do business.”
In a landmark deal, and marked by a visit to the Tees Valley 2 site by Rt Hon Francis Maude MP in April, the British Government via the Cabinet Office will purchase the plant’s power output. The Cabinet Office’s energy contract with Air Products is part of the Government’s “Energy for Growth” program and will meet 2% of the Government's overall energy consumption.
On his visit, Minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude said: “this project demonstrates that the UK is an excellent market for investing in innovative new technology. Importantly, the Air Products project provides a solution to the UK’s waste management challenge whilst strengthening the country’s energy security.”
2. Advanced gasification is a type of advanced conversion technology (ACT), an innovative carbon‐lean process involving efficient, high‐temperature conversion of waste to renewable, base‐load electricity. It offers a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions compared to traditional waste treatment options. A non-hazardous solid by-product is also produced which could potentially be beneficially used in the manufacture of other products such as floor tiles, insulation, landscaping blocks or road aggregate.
3. Air Products (www.airproducts.co.uk) (NYSE:APD) provides atmospheric, process and specialty gases; performance materials; equipment; and technology. For over 70 years, the company has enabled customers to become more productive, energy efficient and sustainable. Recognized as one of the world’s most innovative companies by both Thomson Reuters and Forbes magazine, 21,000 employees in over 50 countries supply effective solutions to the energy, environment and emerging markets. These include semiconductor materials, refinery hydrogen, coal gasification, natural gas liquefaction, and advanced coatings and adhesives. In fiscal 2013, Air Products had sales of $10.2 billion. For more information, visit www.airproducts.com.
Note: This release may contain forward-looking statements within the safe harbour provisions of the (US) Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are based on management’s reasonable expectations and assumptions as of the date of this release regarding important risk factors. Actual performance and financial results may differ materially from projections and estimates expressed in the forward-looking statements because of many factors not anticipated by management, including risk factors described in the Company’s Form 10K for its fiscal year ended September 30, 2013.
A friend recently finished remodeling her home. It was a big project that took over a year to complete. A few days after they finally moved back in, one of her young children took a crayon and colored on the freshly painted walls. “My new home is ruined,” she wailed to me.
“My new car is destroyed,” whined another friend after a too-close encounter with a garbage can left a scratch along the side.
And haven’t we all had one of those vacations where it rained or the kids fought (wait; that was every vacation!) or the accommodations weren’t as expected. “Our whole trip is destroyed,” I have kvetched.
What’s wrong with all these responses? Life is not an all-or-nothing experience, and we set ourselves up for disappointment and frustration if we expect it to be. Living in a material world means that stuff happens, things don’t work, mistakes are made, something goes wrong. We can either learn to roll with the punches and focus on the positive or spend our lives miserable.
The choice seems obvious yet many of us frequently choose the latter response. Instead of enjoying all the wonderful moments on the trip all we see is the rain and the activities we can’t do. What about the different kinds of activities we can do on a rainy day? Instead of focusing on the moments of family togetherness on the same trip, we are thrown off by that moment of fighting (be it physical or verbal). It’s a brief moment that the kids forget about immediately but we may make the mistake of letting it linger, of feeding the flames of frustration. Instead of taking pleasure in our new home and recognizing that it’s a place for people to actually live in, we allow that crayon to really annoy us (on a deeper level, we can be grateful that we have healthy, spirited children we can draw on the walls – a budding artist maybe! Does anyone actually buy this argument?).
You get the point. It all depends on how we look at it and what are our expectations. Perfection is not attainable in this world, not in ourselves and not in our surroundings. The more we seek or expect it, the more disappointed and frustrated we feel. And, conversely, the more we understand that this is a world of imperfections and that our job is to navigate our way through them with joy, the better equipped we will be to do just that.
Fortunately many of these problems can be solved. Walls can be repainted, body shops can remove scratches, we can move to a different room or a different hotel. (The fighting’s a little harder to control!) But something new will pop up. Paint doesn’t last forever. Pigeons’ droppings cover our cars and it always rains the day we get it washed!
But that’s okay. We can laugh at it and move on. We can teach ourselves not to look for perfection and to appreciate what we have. We can revel in a home well used with carpet stains and chipped paint and cracked dishes (okay maybe I’m going a little too far). And once we take the pressure off of ourselves and our families for everything to be perfect, we can relax and enjoy.
The first scratch is always the hardest. It’s best to just get it over with and then move on to the pleasure!
Once upon a time my children were little. (I'm 79) and redecorating was to be done. I stripped the old paper and handed the children the pens and set them free to draw on the bare wall. We all stood back to admire then I did the repapering. From that time on (Over 40 years) they never once vandalised a wall again. They had a secret of where they had done so with permission!
So true When something breaks, (even a corelle dish, speaking from experience ) gd forbid. We say kapara because is only a small thing. We live in a generation that wants things at a push of a button. If something dosent goes as planned we get upset. We need to realize that disappointments are part of gds plan too.