Get ready for the return of our industry’s main event in April
Fluid Power & Systems and Air-Tech are set to take place again at the NEC, Birmingham from 10 to 12 April this year. These shows are co-located with Drives and Controls and Plant & Asset Management, together with a brand-new show for 2018 – Smart Industry Expo. These exhibitions will also be staged alongside MACH, bringing over 40,000 visitors to the NEC over a single week.
RS Components supports innovative start-up to help bring bionic limb technology to babies and toddlers
RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc (LSE:ECM), the global distributor for engineers, is supporting an innovative business start-up with a mission to help bring functional limbs with hydraulic technology to children around the world who need them, after the inventor began developing one for his own amputee baby son.
Break-through robotics and AI projects funded through Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund
Funding of £68 million will be awarded from the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) to the latest ground-breaking research and innovation projects in robotics and artificial intelligence systems.
Camozzi forms new C_Applications division
Camozzi is putting more than half a century of expertise behind the creation of its new C_Applications division.
New Tom Parker Ltd. 2018-2019 catalogue available now
Fluid power specialist, Tom Parker Ltd., has launched its new biennial 2018-2019 product catalogue. Comprising 1160 pages of carefully selected goods, this edition features new brands and product lines.
MCS Hydraulics UK and PTS sign Scotland distribution agreement
MCS Hydraulics UK Ltd., the designer and manufacturer of stainless steel couplings for flexible hoses based in Dudley in the West Midlands, has signed a distribution agreement with PTS (Pressure Test Solutions Ltd.), based in Aberdeen. The new agreement gives PTS exclusive distribution rights throughout Scotland for MCS’s complete range of 316 stainless steel fittings, adaptors, Din 2353 compression fittings, mild steel fittings, mild steel adaptors, also hydraulic, PTFE & thermoplastic hose. As part of the agreement, PTS holds an extensive stock of MCS products ready for despatch. MCS is the sole UK distributor for FB Hydraulics, which manufactures the mild steel fittings. PTS will also be purchasing these items.
Get ready for the return of our industry’s main event next April
Fluid Power & Systems and Air-Tech are set to take place again at the NEC, Birmingham from 10 to 12 April next year. These shows are co-located with Drives and Controls and Plant & Asset Management, together with a brand-new show for 2018 – Smart Industry Expo. These exhibitions will also be staged alongside MACH, bringing over 40,000 visitors to the NEC over a single week.[subhead] Fluid Power & Systems 2018 – exhibitor taster
Antech Hydraulics appointed UK distributor for Settima Screw Pumps
Antech Hydraulics Ltd has been appointed as UK distributor for Settima Screw Pumps. Antech’s managing director Andy Newell said: “We are very excited to have this opportunity. We know Settima produces quality pumps with great reliability and the low noise design is something many sectors will appreciate.”
Aventics cooperates with CIIT research community
Aventics joined Lemgo-based research and development centre Centrum Industrial IT (CIIT) as a strategic partner over a year ago. The first projects are complete and collaboration with developers and researches from CIIT will soon be expanded. Aventics would like to concentrate on activities related to the Industrial Internet of Things.
Britain’s youngest businesses drive sector confidence for 2018
New research from Hitachi Capital Business Finance reveals that it is the country’s youngest small businesses that are now the driving force behind business confidence for the months ahead.
EnerMech awarded hose supply and services contract for Shell Prelude Australia project
Global engineering and maintenance services provider, EnerMech, has been awarded a five-year contract for hose and hose fittings supply and services for Shell’s Prelude FLNG Facility in Western Australia.
Penny Hydraulics opens new £2 million manufacturing plant in Derbyshire
Family-owned lifting equipment manufacturer Penny Hydraulics Ltd. has opened a new £2 million manufacturing facility in Clowne, Derbyshire. British banker and former chairman of Barclays bank, Sir David Walker opened the new plant following completion of the 18-month project.
High-tech engineering comes to Bridlington
East Riding College has opened a new Mechatronics Centre in Bridlington, using funding provided by the York, North Yorkshire and East Riding Enterprise Partnership and equipment donated by various suppliers to the industry.
Antech Hydraulics delivers a bespoke hydraulic system to the University of Sheffield
Lancashire-based Antech Hydraulics has developed and installed a bespoke hydraulic system at the Department of Civil & Structural Engineering within the University of Sheffield. The system comprises of a power pack capable of delivering up to 80 litres per minute and pressures reaching 320 bar.
Rubbernek Fittings receives Cummins EMEA Direct Supplier of the Year Award
Rubbernek Fittings Ltd. has won the Cummins EMEA Direct Supplier of the Year Award 2017 by consistently demonstrating all-round excellent performance and exceeding Quality Performance targets for manufacturing plants and aftermarket. The awards were held recently at the Staverton Park Hotel, Daventry.
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HILLHEAD 2024
25 June, 2024, 9:00 - 27 June, 2024, 16:00
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