Capital Equipment

The use of lasers for marking has today become commonplace in many industries and applications. Indeed many of the every - day products which we take for granted, including the keyboard used to type these words, are marked using a laser. There are however other less well known applications where lasers are used to mark individual items with data matrix codes, bar codes, serial numbers, dates and other pieces of important information, for a variety of reasons.

A new manufacturing cell in Belgium is now producing James Walker's Metakamm Kammprofile gaskets for high temperature and pressure flange sealing in the Benelux and neighbouring countries.

Optimisation of the production processes in the Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co.KG required an improvement in compressed air quality. The problem was clearly defined: Compressed air for the pneumatic handling of cereals, cocoa powder and other primary matters in the production of chocolate had to be in accordance with the strict requirements of the HACCP concept. This concept is a preventive system which ensures the safety of food for consumers. Developed in 1959 in the USA for NASA. Under German law, HACCP became a constituent part of the Food Hygiene Ordinance in 1998. In the EU, it came into effect in 2006, together with the new hygiene regulations package.

All new ACF Multiflex Cornerformers from Shear-Form Machine Tools Ltd are now available with optional tooling to enable corners to be formed using thin mild steel or stainless steel sheet.

Unison has supplied a second all-electric tube bending machine to Boeing Integrated Defense Systems. The order for the machine came just two years after Unison delivered the first system.

Waterjet manufacturer Jet Edge, Inc. of St. Michael, Minn., is pleased to announce that it has acquired Calypso Waterjet Systems of Dallas, Texas.

This telescopic mast unit is a self-guided lifting column that provides smooth motion at high speed with no drift. It is the perfect solution for long strokes and heavy loads. It can reach heights of 60 feet or more with loads of over 1000 pounds. Harsh environment models are also available, as well as custom-designed models.

Elscint Automation has developed a very special vibratory bowl feeder with a rotating attachment for feeding of various sizes of rings in axial manner. Rings having outer diameter from dia 20 mm to dia 80 mm and width from 5 mm to 40 mm can be fed through this in axial orientation.

The installation of five Breezair evaporative coolers into the Reinforced Tower and Carbon Areas at Jones Stroud Insulations in Preston, Lancashire by CoSaf Environments, exclusive UK distributors of the Breezair evaporative air cooling system, has alleviated oppressively hot summer temperatures of in excess of 35ºC to a more comfortable working environment of 25ºC. Such has been the success of Breezair that Jones Stroud Insulations is now expanding the cooling system to other areas of the factory.

The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH) has reduced its energy consumption by a staggering £53,000 per annum following the installation of Thermal Energy International Inc’s GEM venturi orifice steam traps. A 147 GEM steam traps have been installed throughout the RNOH site in Stanmore, providing the hospital with a seven-month payback in gas savings alone.