Capital Equipment

Ruabon Works is making steam savings of 12% from its batch reactor following the installation of Gardner Energy Management’s GEM Venturi Orifice steam traps. Following the success of this initial installation, which provided Flexsys with a payback in only five months, the company has installed GEM steam traps on a condensate recovery project and is now retrospectively fitting GEM traps across the site.

Dirt, dust and humidity are just some of the downsides involved with tunnelling operations, and keeping plant working in these conditions can provide major headaches. Factor in cutting machines weighing 40 tons with 8 metre diameter drilling heads, then space can also become a priority for routine as well as emergency procedures involved with keeping-up with production schedules.

Atlas Copco Compressors’ new ZS+ dry rotary screw positive displacement blower range presents a completely new and innovative solution to oil-free process air requirements.

A motorised bag gripper assembly is the latest innovative solution to emerge from Chronos Richardson’s comprehensive research and development programme. The unique gripper assembly provides robot palletisers with a ‘5th movement axis’ for precision bag positioning every time. The gripper’s innovative operating technique allows end-users to achieve quality loaded pallets that have hitherto only been achievable with conventional palletisers.

Assembly applications generally involve multiple component parts and processes. Each of these individual parts and processes has its own unique characteristics, which in turn influence the overall machine cycle time. With traditional rotary type assembly systems, the machine cycle time, and therefore the output, is determined by the slowest operation. The WEISS LS280 – High Speed Linear Transfer System however, enables several assembly operations, with different processing times, to be performed within the same machine therefore reducing the overall cycle time and maximising the output.

Rofin-Baasel has always embraced the philosophy of producing not only laser sources but also wherever possible providing a complete solution. This commitment to practicality and ease of use has resulted in many standard systems and solutions being developed for a wide range of applications and industries. The latest innovation of this kind to be launched by Rofin is the CombiLine Advanced, an all purpose laser marking workstation.

With over 30 years experience in designing and manufacturing laser sources and systems for materials processing, Rofin offers the most comprehensive range of laser products for the Semiconductor industry. The Rofin portfolio includes not only a wide range of laser sources but also turnkey solutions to many applications including IC, Lead-frame and Wafer marking.

Accurate recording of all bulk material movements around feed and flour mills, grain terminals and ports can provide an enhanced level of accurate weight recording and performance monitoring. Whilst many installations utilise weighbridges or silo weighing systems for their weight recording, bulk throughput weighers provide a more accurate and cost-effective alternative.

The word “laser” is often associated automatically, and quite rightly, with the word “precision”. However, it is also easy to make the incorrect assumption that “precision” is only associated with “small” or ”miniature” components. The new StarWeld Integral combines ROFIN's concept of manual welding lasers with an extremely spacious working chamber and high average power.

Every day we pick up and use a myriad of different items from pens, calculators, mobile phones, our central locking car key fob, not to mention our computer keyboard and mouse. We take for granted the fact that these items are almost always assembled automatically, but we give little if any thought to how the individual parts make their way to the assembly system.