February 2001

PCME Working in Partnership with the Woodland Trust


PCME Ltd, leading manufacturer and worldwide supplier of industrial environmental monitoring systems are pleased to announce their sponsorship of "Natures Calendar", a new initiative from the Woodland Trust in association with the Centre of Ecology and Hydrology.

The Woodland Trust, the UK's leading woodland charity, is active in monitoring and mitigating the effects of climate change. Climate change is currently the biggest threat to what little remains of our ancient woodland heritage and the biodiversity therein. Natures Calendar is a project to monitor and evaluate changes to woodland and fauna's calendar. Variations in nature's calendar are a useful way of monitoring how change might impact on woodland habitats and more work is urgently needed to help scientists study climate change and its effects on our wildlife.

PCME Ltd is keen to support this important project, which reflects that measurement is the fundamental premise of understanding a problem and providing insight for improving the situation.

Mr William Averdieck, Managing Director of PCME Ltd said: "We are delighted to support the Woodland Trust with this important project since the results will provide better data to make the right environmental choices in the UK. We also hope the project and link with the Woodland Trust will have similar appeal to our industrial customers who's responsible environmental attitude and social responsibility may mean they also wish to support other programs run by the Woodland Trust related to mitigating the effects of climate change."
A simple form to record events is available from the Woodland Trust on 01476 581111 or by logging on to www.phenology.org.uk or www.woodland-trust.org.uk

February 2001

PCME Ltd demonstrated it's new powder velocity monitor, the V-Tess for on-line mass monitoring and controlling processes in the food, cement, pharmaceutical and other powder based processes at Solidex 2001. Monitoring powder movement in pipes is critical for many process plant operations in achieving optimum conveying speed and balancing pneumatic transfer systems on-line to reduce particle damage and minimise product wastage. Complementing PCME's well-proven Electrodynamic sensor technology is a new dynamic radar sensor providing complete capability for mass flow measurements in larger pipes in dilute phase and free-fall conveying.

Also on display was a range of MCERTS accredited compliance instruments for particulate emission monitoring and the latest developments in a new range of concentration, velocity and mass emission systems. This new range allows mass discharge data from stacks in mass kg/hr or totalised per year to be produced for environmental impact protocol.