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Exotic alloys – Lee Spring explain what they are and when to use them

Exotic alloys – Lee Spring explain what they are and when to use them

Materials with high alloy content, known as super alloys or exotic alloys, offer enhanced performance properties including excellent strength and durability, and resistance to oxidation, corrosion and deforming at high temperatures or under extreme pressure.

Lightweight air springs offer enhanced comfort and lower fuel consumption

Lightweight air springs offer enhanced comfort and lower fuel consumption

With its air spring system featuring an integrated plastic roller piston, Continental has taken a step toward reducing the weight of buses and trucks.

IE5 motor efficiency standard could help government’s climate change ambitions

IE5 motor efficiency standard could help government’s climate change ambitions

The UK government’s bold climate-stabilising target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 would be helped significantly by the adoption of IE5 standards for electric motor efficiency, says David Ede, Business Development Manager at TEC Motors.

Rotamec rewind service helps a leading brewery to keep its fizz

Rotamec rewind service helps a leading brewery to keep its fizz

Ensuring redundancy in large scale manufacturing operations is key to any plant manager’s peace of mind. In the beverage industry, where processing speeds are high and profit margins per unit low, securing redundancy is especially important towards promoting uptime. One world famous brewery has turned to Rotamec, an electro-mechanical service provider to industry, who secured its production line by carrying out a specialist motor rewind and refurbishment within seven weeks.

Encoderless safety: drive-integrated safety without an encoder

Encoderless safety: drive-integrated safety without an encoder

What is the goal of functional safety? To minimise the risks posed by technical equipment to humans and the environment. Machine tools, for example, can endanger operators and technicians with tools that rotate at high speeds. Drive technology that ensures the required safety functions without encoders offers the user various advantages, says Mark Checkley of KEB.

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