Around the Industry

Catalog Data Solutions (CDS), a leading provider of online product selection tools for industrial suppliers and distributors, today announced the launch of the R+W Couplings 3D-Powered Online Catalog available at via Design World Community http://www.designworldonline.com. Key capabilities include easy interactive online navigation, parametric part selection, online 3D viewing of parts and CAD downloads in formats suitable for all major CAD systems.

Parker Aerospace has been selected by Airbus to supply both the fuel and hydraulic systems for its new A350 extra-widebody (XWB) aircraft.

BITZER has won the globally prestigious 2007 Frost & Sullivan Award for European Competitive Strategy Leadership. The presentation of the award was made to the company at the Excellence Awards Banquet held on 4 December at the Guoman Cumberland Hotel, London. Accepting the Award on behalf of BITZER were Peter Schaufler, Chief Executive Officer, Christof Senk, Managing Director, Hans Meurer, Chief Sales Officer, and Christian Wahlers, Chief Financial Officer.

MicroStep UK has now been established in the UK to market the company’s ranges of Aquacut and Watercut CNC waterjet cutting machines. The company is based in Coventry and has been formed through an agreement between the Directors of Matrix Lasers, who have been users of MicroStep machines for a number of years, and the MicroStep parent company in Slovakia. The new company has also appointed George Tudor, who has vast experience in the profiling industry, as UK Sales Manager.

Sheppard Plumbing under the ownership of Tony Sheppard is one of the UK’s most ardent admirers of Kopex International’s renowned Pipeslice pipe cutting tool. He has been using it for over seven years in his day to day domestic work around the Cheltenham area which includes plumbing- in bathrooms and kitchens as well as undertaking heating and gas boiler installations.

The 2008 Murex Welding Product wall planner is now available and is a must for every welding workshop.

This autumn has seen a new distributor added to Murex Welding Products’ UK wide network. Carillon Industrial Services (CIS) are a precision engineers’ merchant, whose new High Wycombe depot is now stocking the Murex range. The company is offering an array of technically advanced and well supported welding products to a customer base that covers a large part of the Home Counties.

Parker has introduced an innovative portable air preparation system as part of its successful Moduflex range, providing effective filtration and regulation of compressed air whenever and wherever it is required. The Moduflex Airframe can be installed quickly and simply at the point of use, requiring only an air supply to optimise the performance and service life of a diverse range of pneumatic tools and applications, improving productivity and reducing operating costs as a result.

Horstmann, the manufacturer of domestic and commercial heating controls for electrical and gas heating systems, has joined the Entity Group. The move creates the UK’s most advanced interoperable range of Smart metering and home control solutions.

Endevco Corporation, the leader in sensing solutions for demanding vibration, shock and pressure applications, has announced the appointment of Jeremy Bryceson as Area Sales Manager in the Endevco UK office.