EBM-Papst is making significant advances in helping to convert fuel cell applications from laboratory standards into competitive line products. The company's energy efficient fans, blowers and pumps are playing a crucial role in the attaining the highest level of efficiency across a vast range of (more...)

Atlas Copco North America has signed an agreement to acquire Beacon Holdings Corporation (parent company to BeaconMedaes and Medaes), United States, from The Riverside Company. The BeaconMedaes group is a solutions provider, predominantly of medical air systems and medical utility delivery systems (more...)

Baldor has signed Routeco as its nationwide distributor in the UK for industrial motor products. Routeco will focus on Baldor's industrial IEC motor product lines, which are a natural complement to the distributor's existing franchises in areas such as motor control and drives. "Our (more...)

Local manufacturing companies in the Newport area now have access to the largest stocked range of industrial maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) products in Europe, following the opening of a new Sales and Service Centre by BSL Brammer, the UK's leading distributor of MRO (more...)

David Brown Engineering has supplied five large gearboxes and pinions to JSW Steel in India in the first stage of a major upgrading of the company's hot strip mill facilities. This initial project will increase capacity by 40 percent and other planned improvements are designed to progressively (more...)

Leading automotive supplier Fontaine International has chosen custom pneumatic actuators and control systems from Festo as key components for its innovative new 2 position 'fifthwheel' coupling system for articulated lorries. Manufactured using the latest techniques from a highly corrosion (more...)

The Kistler Group has taken over the German torque sensor and force-displacement system specialist, Dr. Staiger Mohilo and Co. GmbH based in Lorch near Stuttgart. Dr. Staiger Mohilo and Co. GmbH was established in 1945 and is a market leader in torque sensor technology with more than 80 employees (more...)

A new force in the UK fluid power and control market has been created, following the integration of Numatics Incorporated with ASCO Joucomatic Ltd. "The combined knowledge and expertise of our new organisation will strengthen the group and increase the value and scope of the services we provide to (more...)

Thorite has appointed Ian White as its Pneumatics Training Course Manager. Ian has been with Thorite for 15 years and was previously employed as a Senior Account Manager. He will now be responsible for organisation and instruction during monthly training courses which focus on pneumatic circuit (more...)

Emerson Process Management has been awarded a contract from Bergesen Worldwide Offshore for supplying a safety and automation system (SAS), process instrumentation, and fiscal metering system for the FPSO BW Enterprise, one of the world’s largest vessels of its kind for production, storage, (more...)