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Chain "raises the standard" for London"s Woolwich ferry

The Woolwich ferry provides one of the few available crossings of the River Thames in east of London, linking the north and south circular roads across the river. The ferry service bridges at Woolwich Crossing were recently overhauled and chain specialist Iwis Drive Systems from Tipton, UK, provided new roller chains for the North and South side bridge lifting systems. 

23rd March 2016
Tight control helps to lengthen belt life

Tight control helps to lengthen belt life

Paying more attention to the drive belt – whether in design, selection or maintenance – will help to boost system efficiency, reduce downtime and increase belt life, explains Phil Burge of SKF.

23rd March 2016
Ringspann engineers invite MACH visitors to set them a challenge

Ringspann engineers invite MACH visitors to set them a challenge

At MACH 2016 Ringspann is taking a different approach to previous years. Alongside the range of products on display they will have a design engineer on the stand and are inviting people to bring along a component they want to clamp and challenge them to produce a fixture concept on the stand. With over 40 years of experience of producing high quality and repeatable fixtures and the use of parametric design principles they believe they are ideally placed to rise to the challenge. 

23rd March 2016
Gesipa highlights robotic blind riveting at MACH

Gesipa highlights robotic blind riveting at MACH

Gesipa is bringing a new integrated robotic blind rivet nut setting tool to MACH 2016. The FireRex is suited to installation into applications such as assembly cells, semi-automatic workstations and can even be integrated into robotic applications.It allows greater flexibility due to the external pressure transmitter enabling the setting of blind rivet nuts at almost any angle into confined work areas.

23rd March 2016
SICK makes the safe factory more productive at MACH2016

SICK makes the safe factory more productive at MACH2016

Visitors to MACH 2016 are promised a glimpse of the future of industrial safety as the global market leader SICK continues its roll-out of next-generation safety products on stand 5969.

23rd March 2016
ABB to showcase latest robotic innovations at MACH 2016

ABB to showcase latest robotic innovations at MACH 2016

ABB will be showcasing its latest technologies at this year’s MACH 2016 at the Birmingham NEC from the 11th to the 15th of April. Stand 5771 in Hall 5 will showcase ABB’s latest developments in robotic automation, with its new generation of cost-effective, state-of-the-art standardized arc welding cells. 

23rd March 2016
Schunk gets bigger, better and faster at MACH 2016

Schunk gets bigger, better and faster at MACH 2016

At MACH 2016, Schunk will be more than doubling the size of its 2014 stand to accomodate the raft of new products that will be shown alongside established market favourites. On Stand 5024 at MACH 2016 in Hall 5, the innovator in workholding, toolholding and automation technology will be inviting the manufacturing industry to review a host of new products that will receive their UK exhibition premiere at MACH, whilst industry experts will be discussing Schunk's technology that meets the criteria of Industry 4.0.

23rd March 2016
Aluminium profiles and accessories

Aluminium profiles and accessories

KJN will be demonstrating the flexibility of its aluminium profiles and accessories at MACH 2016. These can be easily modified, and constructions are put together simply using strong connection elements, so no welding is required. These connection elements mean frameworks are easy to assemble and modify. KJN specialises in this product range, and so has an unrivalled breadth of knowledge when it comes to advising customers.

23rd March 2016
Sensors offer high accuracy in oil and gas applications

Sensors offer high accuracy in oil and gas applications

Morgan Advanced Materials has launched a new range of high-accuracy sensors for the oil and gas extraction sector, harnessing the unique capabilities of its proprietary piezoelectric materials which can provide reliable sensing and monitoring in high-temperature environments above 200ºC.

23rd March 2016
Seismic safety switch for high integrity protection

Seismic safety switch for high integrity protection

High integrity seismic protection of critical assets such as oil, gas, nuclear and hydro-electric installations, pharmaceutical and medical facilities, where accurate detection of structural vibration in conjunction with safe shut-down procedures is an essential requirement. Sensonics offers a range of solutions which are ideally suited to most applications.

23rd March 2016
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