Capital Equipment

Steinmeyer announced an innovative, cost effective decoupling arrangement for ball screw drives that enables our standard PMT 160 series stages to achieve breakthrough performance – namely straightness and flatness runout of 50 nanometers or less! And we do it using mechanical cross roller bearings instead of large and expensive air bearings. The decoupling system isolates any transverse movement of the ball screw from the linear bearing system and saddle of the stage.

Already recognised for its innovative dual output compressed air/nitrogen technology, Atlas Copco now offers its new NG series of advanced nitrogen generators to provide a continuous, reliable secure and independent source of on-site nitrogen generation at the lowest possible cost for a broad spectrum of industry applications.

Elscint Automation has developed a unique feeding system for feeding of brake liners of various sizes. The brake liners are semi circular and having various diameters and sizes, upto dia 120 mm or even more.

Energy savings of up to 55% are achievable by steam users with Gardner Energy Management’s (GEM) Topaz steam trap range. A development of GEM’s award winning venturi steam trap, the GEM Topaz has been specifically produced for Clean Steam Systems used in hospitals and pharmaceuticals for sterilises and sterilisation.

Leading Southall based restaurant and work wear rental company and laundry, London Linen Supply Ltd, is saving an amazing £40,000 per annum in energy costs and maintenance following the replacement of its mechanical steam traps with the award winning Gardner Energy Management’s GEM Venturi orifice traps. Gardner Energy Management has installed 100 GEM traps throughout the laundry, providing London Linen with a payback in less than 12-months on energy savings alone.

Wilkinson Star Limited launched a number of new welding and plasma cutting products for automated and robot welding at MACH 2008 including the Sound TIG AC/DC 4560/T inverter based synergic pulsed robot power source for use in automated TIG welding.

Red Rooster Industrial announce the new Digital Crane Weigher to compliment their existing hydrostatic TEO crane weigher.

HT agitators made by Chemineer of Derby, England, are playing a significant role in the expansion of what is already the world’s biggest single bioethanol plant in the far north eastern city of Jilin in China.

Wavin, a leading manufacturer of plastics pipe and ducting for the water and building industries has recently installed a safe and efficient method for personnel de-dusting at its factory in Durham that has proven popular with its employees.

With over 50 years experience in the design and manufacture of materials handling systems, Riley Automation continues to develop innovative solutions for a wide range of product handling and parts feeding applications.