Hydrotechnik UK has provided two bespoke test rigs complete with a customised testing area for a railway components repair company. The rigs enable the company to carry out efficiency tests on cylinders ensuring they meet the standards to be assembled onto drive systems fitted onto trains. (more...)

Greg Wainhouse of Burkert offers an explanation on the various level sensing technologies available on the market today. Level sensing is one of the most common functions for process control but it also uses a wide range of different technologies to achieve the same goal; it is therefore important (more...)

Gardner Denver distributor Air Energy has provided an innovative, containerised compressed air solution to a leading manufacturer of tailor-made bead polymer products, avoiding lengthy downtime and saving more than £10,000 in construction costs. Based in Ware, Hertfordshire, Makevale creates (more...)

Malibu Health Products is a private manufacturer of sun care and related products based in St Albans, Hertfordshire and well known for leading brands such as the sun cream ‘Malibu Sun’. This technical application note provides details of the successful use of Inoxpa Sanitary Lobe pumps, (more...)

Dynamic machine control (DMC) is the design paradigm that uses today’s cutting-edge technologies to help build the smarter machines of tomorrow. DMC for fluid power applications includes major advances in industrial control valve technology, such as embedded controllers, sensor interfaces, (more...)

The food and beverage industry covers a huge range of processes and applications that require pumps to keep materials moving through the production process. From the processing of tough raw materials, like sugar cane, to hygienic transport of finished products, selection of the most appropriate pump (more...)

Hydrotechnik UK has expanded its range of gas charging and testing kits. Five kits now make up the range from simple test and charging kits for under £200 through to the new World Wide Universal kit which caters for over 95% of the world’s accumulators. A new detailed catalogue showcases (more...)

Gardner Denver has updated its ‘Assure’ scheme for its Elmo Rietschle vacuum range, offering a free, six-year warranty to customers. To previously qualify for the six-year warranty, customers had to register the machine with their local authorised Elmo Rietschle distributor upon (more...)

Festo has launched two new easy-to-use sensors with IO-Link output that enable engineers to check the status of their processes readily and increase production efficiencies. Developed in response to the trend for increased monitoring and diagnostics, SFAW is the first flow sensor from Festo for (more...)

Offering a low maintenance solution for the creation of continuous vacuum or pressure, claw pumps from EuroVacuum Products present the ideal choice for a wide range of industrial applications. Equipped with variable speed drives, combined with innate design benefits for reliable operation, claw (more...)