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Combined bearings and profiles for lifting applications

Choosing a reliable, efficient and cost-effective lifting system for heavy duty fabrications and automation projects can become a mine field.

Bearings
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Innovative clutch used for innovative workboat fire pump solution

Saving space and reducing weight are two of the biggest challenges for engineers working in the marine industry. Every cubic foot or kilogramme saved results in reduced fuel consumption or improved...

Marine Engineering
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Custom gear units drive log washers

Renold Gears has designed a heavy-duty, custom gearbox solution for a manufacturer of a special type of coarse material washers known as log washers.

Gearboxes
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Highest lifting capacity for narrow track gauge

Enerpac announces the SL300 hydraulic gantry, the latest innovation in the SL series telescoping hydraulic gantries, offering the highest lifting capacity on a 61cm (24-inch) track gauge in heavy...

Lifting Equipment
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Bosch Rexroth keeps its ‘Eye’ on the next generation of engineers

Another group of young engineers has completed a unique training course in association with Bosch Rexroth, equipping them with a combination of theoretical and practical skills in hydraulics.

Apprenticeships
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Festo introduces a highly adaptable angle seat valve, the VZXA.

Featuring a patented interface and award-winning modular product architecture, its wide variety of valve bodies and actuators can be freely combined for maximum configuration flexibility.

control valves
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igus energy tubes withstand hot chips up to 850°C

Lightweight R4.1L energy supply systems made of high temperature resistant plastic

Plant Operations
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Minimising running costs for pumps in gas turbine power generation

Large scale, high performance pumps have traditionally been designed to meet the specifications of a particular application without the need for speed control. However, changes in operating conditions...

Pumps
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Advanced control and safety technology improves tower crane performance

To develop its second-generation luffing jib tower cranes, Recom Srl turns to ABB’s control and safety technology to rejuvenate its automation system.

Cranes
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Severn Trent installs reliable oil-free screw blowers in six water treatment plants

Severn Trent Water has chosen to install reliable and energy efficient ZS oil-free rotary screw blowers from Atlas Copco at six of its water treatment plants in the UK.

Blowers
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Continuous IR monitoring ensures plastic weld integrity

Plastics play an increasingly important role in product design and IR welding is a popular method of joining these components. For one manufacturer of instrument panels and cockpit systems, Yanfeng...

Vision Systems
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Liverpool cyber-attack sparks debate

Industrial computing specialist Distec is calling for businesses to reassess the security of their hardware and software following the latest cyber-attack.

Security Services