Engineers’ New Years Resolutions

27 January 2012

How to make sure you stick to your New Year’s resolutions – an engineer’s guide New Year’s resolutions have been a tradition since the times of the ancient Babylonians. Pretty much as we do today, they promised their gods at the start of each year that they would return borrowed objects and pay their debts. [...]

John Craven, You Tube, and PVL

13 December 2011

Those of you who grew up in the UK will no doubt have happy memories of the children’s news and current affairs programme Newsround. It’s just celebrated its 40th anniversary and its original presenter John Craven accepted a special British Academy award, which recognised its contribution to children’s television, on behalf of the show recently. [...]

PVL has SWIGger

29 November 2011

PVL recently attended the Sensing in Water 2011 conference, hosted by SWIG (the Sensors for Interest in Water Group) in Nottingham. This was the first two-day event the not-for-profit organisation had arranged and our representatives, Jamie Clowes and David Almond, took advantage of the show in decidedly different ways! While David SWIGged his way around [...]

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B is for beaches: Heading south for the winter!

23 November 2011

Steve Moorey, PVL’s intrepid managing director, has just embarked on a gruelling two month working trip to Australia, during which he will spend a day meeting Kelco, one of PVL’s key manufacturing partners. The rest of the two months is going to be an arduous mix of restaurants, culture and beaches… But arranging the trip [...]

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UK based distributor sounds the alarm on imitation pressure switches

22 November 2011

~ Copies of Elettrotec’s PMN pressure switch have already been sold across the UK ~  PVL, the UK distributor of Elettrotec Srl’s pressure switches, is warning British industry that copies of the Italian manufacturer’s landmark PMN design are being sold on the UK market. As a result, PVL is advising manufacturers to look for both [...]

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PVL putts switches on the fairway at golf day

16 November 2011

As a business, PVL is very keen to ensure that we never drive a wedge between ourselves and our customers. In fact if we ever find ourselves in the rough, we work hard to putt ourselves back in the position of trusted advisor, which is par for the course under normal circumstances. Okay, we appreciate [...]

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A is for ATEX: It’s been a long, hot summer at PVL!

4 October 2011

Sparks have been flying at PVL recently! For starters, our product manager Jamie has just got back from an explosive honeymoon in Thailand. On top of that, Jacob, our former apprentice, has had a hot promotion to trainee sales engineer. And, if that wasn’t enough, we’ve had a big marketing push on ATEX rated switches, [...]

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PVL At Goodwood

26 August 2011

PVL was well represented at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed a the beginning of July – not only was PVL’s Consulting Engineer, Shaun Martin, a well-known rally driver, in charge of the Rally Paddock for the festival, but dozens of PVL’s motorsport customers were present. Logically, therefore, quite a few of the products that [...]

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Wedding Bells at PVL…

18 August 2011

All those rumours about Jamie Clowes and the Spanish girl at the sandwich bar can at last be put aside, because Jamie has just got married. The office at PVL has been a-buzz with the whole thing, especially after Jamie’s new missus phoned 01892 664499 a few days before the wedding and was asked by [...]

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A Body For Cincinnati…

25 July 2011

He’s at it again. Not content with having taken up mountaineering without warning and devising the fried chicken lunchtime pressure switch sales system, David Almond, PVL’s Head of Sales and Marketing announced a couple of weeks ago that he was popping out for a curry. Three days later we got a text message from India [...]

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