The ongoing labour shortage in the electrical installation sector is making time efficiency on site more important than ever. Protecting connections and electrical components, enclosures are key across electrical installations. This means housings that are fast and straightforward to work with are important to any installer, whether the installation will take place indoors, outdoors, or with special requirements.
Spelsberg UK has appointed Michael White as the company’s new Industry Manager who will partner with stakeholders across key sectors to advise on industrial enclosure selection. Michael brings over 20 years’ experience to the role and will support Spelsberg’s full-scale range of engineering services offered to industrial projects that extend to enclosure customisation and bespoke design.
As UK data centre capacity continues to expand, ensuring electrical resilience under fire conditions is an important design priority. Fire protection enclosures play a vital role in maintaining circuit integrity in the event of a fire, helping facilities sustain safe operation and supporting a controlled shutdown during an incident, as well as assisting safe evacuation and fire suppression.
For OEMs and integrators who rely on industrial enclosures to protect their devices and control systems, assembly is another task to add to the project timeline. Fitting items ranging from DIN rails and terminals through to keypads and labelling, assembly can also be a resource-intensive activity.
The government’s new homes and construction initiatives mean that speed of development is essential. To achieve these goals, concrete is playing an important role, with off-site manufacturing optimising efficiency. Across all building developments, fast and secure electrical installation is fundamental, but when working with concrete, effective and reliable integration of electrical enclosures and conduits is an even more important process.
TAG Active, a designer of obstacle course activity games, has been commissioned by Center Parcs to gamify the Adventure Nets at Longleat Forest holiday village. With a format that has been rolled out at venues worldwide, players tag a wristband against an illuminated RFID transponder to score points.
Industrial controls specialist TIC and industrial enclosure manufacturer Spelsberg have entered a new partnership, jointly providing their services in a combined approach. TIC is presenting Spelsberg’s industrial enclosures on its new e-commerce website, tic-direct.com, enabling fast and simple product selection and purchase.