Mechanical Components

Vestel is a leading global manufacturer of household and B2B appliances and devices so when responding to a national tender from the Ministry of Education to install Smartboards in schools in Turkey, Essentra Components were delighted to support Vestel by providing a custom locking solution to ensure the safety and security of the product and its users.

It has been announced that Lee Spring offers a wide range of ex-stock almost 250 different sizes and loading capacity of Belleville spring washers, manufactured in 300 series stainless steel, so enabling engineers to quickly source these compact and cost-saving components on an urgent or a programmed supply basis.

  The engineering components supplier WDS Component Parts, has expanded its offering of toggle clamps, adding new sizes at both the small and large end of the range, plus filling in some intermediate gaps and introducing new design variants.

Oil rigs, gas production facilities, wind farms, port facilities or ship cranes: these applications have very special requirements for safe energy and data transmission. igus offers more than 370 DNV GL certified cables for use in maritime e-chains. Together with the DNV GL, igus has developed completely new test methods and standards for dynamic cables in e-chains.

The lubrication properties of the new TRIM MicroSol 530 semi-synthetic coolant from Master Fluid Solutions provides surface finishing levels on aluminium components normally only seen with very high oil containing milky emulsions. Unlike these emulsions, however, TRIM MicroSol 530 is very clean running and keeps machine tools free from residue build-up while reducing concentrate consumption and costs.

The Elesa series of hygienic knobs and handles in stainless steel with FDA compliant sealing compliment their established adjustable levelling feet to complete a series suited to medical, pharmaceutical, food processing and related industrial applications. In fact, all those messy situations where frequent aggressive cleaning is required to prevent the build-up of bacteria and dirt in general.

The standard component specialist, norelem, has launched a range of plastic spur gears, for a cost-effective and highly efficient addition to the toolkits of design engineers. The most commonly used gear type, spur gears are an essential component for non-slip transmission of forces from one shaft to another. This is crucial for machines that require a change in the direction of rotation, for example, where loads must be raised or lowered. 

The use of industrial robots has been gaining ground steadily over many years. They help to automate production workflows, so they can be organised to improve cost efficiency. Thin-section bearings are important for robotics because they are lightweight and particularly small. 

It has been announced that special distributor Heilind now supplies the product portfolio of Heyco Products, one of the manufacturers in the area of cable management and electromechanical components made of plastic and metal. Heyco Products offer more than 9,000 items including cable fasteners, grommets, strain reliefs, blind hole plugs, bushings, PCB spacers, LED spacers and distance bolts. 

The OMIL range of gripping systems offers new and enhanced products specifically developed and selected to improve the efficiency, productivity and accuracy in a number of key sectors, including machine tools, assembly machines, transfer machines, gantry-robots and in the general mechanical and electromechanical engineering industry sectors, as well as ‘bespoke’ special machining solutions.