Industrial Technology

Aseptic dispense valves

The 754V-SS valve is a precision dispense valve with an aseptic design that reduces the risk of contamination in sterile fluid filling processes. Typical uses include filling contact lens packages with saline, dispensive monomers into lens moulds, filling vials with drugs, and small volume food and beverage applications.

22nd November 2005

Wyko launches Loctite maintenance products range

Wyko is launching a new Henkel Loctite range of maintenance products designed specifically to extend the life of quarry equipment at a minimum of effort and cost. To protect and repair chutes, cyclones and pump housings, the offering includes the Norbak ready to use range of products that combine the wear resistance of two-part epoxies with the convenience of brushable or trowlable compounds. For on-site rapairs, the innovative new Loctite 'glue-stick' containers provide engineers with the pocket sized solution to locking threads, sealing pipes and avoiding seized components. Designed with utmost convenience in mind, the new Loctite range of handy maintenance products illustrate how on-site repairs in the extraction industries can become quicker, easier and far more cost-effective. The new ranges avoid the need for equipment to be replaced, having to be moved for repair, or needing combersome equipment to get systems back on line.

22nd November 2005

Bighead launches adhesives range

The use of BigHead fasteners has now been greatly extended by the development of modern, industrial-strength adhesives. These permit BigHead fasteners to be mounted in inaccessible and post-manufacture positions in all types of fabrication and assembly, even in direct metal-to-metal situations. The newly-launched BigBond range of surface mount adhesives has been specifically formulated to provide high-performance bonding of the BigHead range onto a wide range of substrates.

22nd November 2005

Fast curing polyetheramine

Huntsman Performance Products has developed a pioneering polyoxyalkylene diamine. The XTJ-590 product is a fast curing epoxy hardeners at low temperature while providing good mechanical properties to the system. It is a reactive polyether diamine of low molecular weight and can be used in epoxy adhesives, hot melt adhesives, construction chemicals, composites, coatings, polyamide elastomers and epoxy curatives.

22nd November 2005

Meeting environmental and end-of-life directives

Industrial Gas Springs is helping equipment manufacturers to meet stringent EU environmental and product recycling standards by adopting zerovalent chrome plating as the standard finish for operating rods across its complete range of UK-made gas springs, with the exception of all-stainless steel variants. In laboratory tests, implemented to food industry standards under European Directive EU97/48/EC, the company’s electrolytically deposited metallic chrome has proved to pose no risk to human health or the environment.

22nd November 2005

False economies with hose clips

Complex, high-tech, expensive machinery can frequently be immobilised when an inexpensive component such as a hose clip malfunctions, causing considerable damage and often significantly threatening safety.

22nd November 2005

High cycle range of shock absorbers

Ace Controls has launched its new High Cycle range of shock absorbers for high speed production equipment. There are three self-compensating models of miniature shock absorbers in the range – the SC-190 HC, 300 HC and 650 HC – all offering a quick time through stroke and rapid repeat strokes. Effective weights of of the HC family range from 2 to 6350kg and each shock absorber has an integral mechanical stop built into the front of the units.

22nd November 2005

Anti-vibration products

Rino Industries has launched a new range of anti-vibration products that also claim to reduce noise. The reduction of noise and vibration has become more important over the years. The products in this new range are dedicated to protection against vibrations and shock. They offer design engineers the means to resolve isolation problems using elastomer alone or elastomer bonded to metal supports, the company states.

22nd November 2005

Square springs are the stars of the show

A leading manufacturer of seats for both indoor and outdoor events approached William Hughes with a problem that a number of other spring manufacturers had been unable to solve. It wanted to extend its folding seat product range into a new market that required the performance of the seat to be upgraded. To meet the standards for this new application, the pair of springs that are used to return the seat to the upright position needed to complete twice as many cycles, an increase from 50,000 to 100,000 operations.

22nd November 2005

Hang it all - it's the spring that counts

Applied Spring Technology has solved a problem for a global packaging company in London, supplying dress and fashion hangers to leading High Street retailers. The hangers are the type that compress to the centre, and then expand left and right to fit the garment. The problem was that manufacturers were putting size 8s on the spring-loaded hanger for shipment to the UK in huge container-loads, which were size 10s by the time the retailer unloaded them!

22nd November 2005

Fastening

Aseptic dispense valves

Wyko launches Loctite maintenance products range

Bighead launches adhesives range

Fast curing polyetheramine

Meeting environmental and end-of-life directives

False economies with hose clips

High cycle range of shock absorbers

Anti-vibration products

Square springs are the stars of the show

Hang it all - it's the spring that counts