Manuli Hydraulics was recently honored with the award for “Best Supply Performance” at the Manitou supplier conference. Founded over 60 years ago, the Manitou Group now has a worldwide presence having established its leadership in material-handling (industrial or all-terrain forklift trucks, personnel aerial access platforms, compact loaders, warehousing equipment etc.). Manitou’s Luc Midy, Plant Manager […]
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IFPE will be home to the first-ever 3D printed excavator
A group of engineering students and researchers is in the process of building key components on the world’s first 3D printed excavator, to be unveiled at CONEXPO-CON/AGG and IFPE 2017. It will be on display at the Las Vegas Convention Center March 7-11, while pieces and parts of a second construction excavator will be printed […]
New digital product configurator from Eaton
Power management company Eaton, has recently expanded their digital product configurator to include large bore tie rod and mill duty cylinders. Built by CADENAS PARTsolutions, the digital product configurator is significantly increasing EoDB or “ease of doing business” for the Eaton’s cylinder customers. Formerly, engineers would have to wait to get the Eaton CAD model […]
World market for hydraulic pumps to reach $10.4 billion by 2022
According to a new report published by Allied Market Research, the global hydraulic pump market is expected to garner $10.4 billion of revenue by 2022, growing at a CAGR of 4.7% during 2016-2022. In 2015, Asia-Pacific accounted for 36.7%, followed by North America. Growth in developing countries such as China and India would primarily be supplemented by […]
Motion Industries launches initiative to service renewable energy segment
Motion Industries, a leading distributor of industrial maintenance, repair, and operation (MRO) replacement parts, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Genuine Parts Company (NYSE: GPC), announced the creation of the Renewable Energy segment initiative. In order to better support its customers in the renewable energy sector, Motion Industries created this segment emphasis to provide dedicated […]
High fuel-efficiency R3 hydromechanical variable transmission
Dana Rexroth Transmission Systems has announced that its engineers have completed final validation testing of the R3 hydromechanical variable transmission (HVT), with the start of production expected in the third quarter of this year. In addition, the HVT R2 platform is now in production. Both versions of the HVT technology from Dana Rexroth feature a […]
Pitching vibration damping for wheel loaders
Over the years, driving speeds of construction vehicles have steadily risen. Even the small- and medium-sized machines for material handling and transport (wheel loaders and telescopic loaders) have followed this trend. Today, operators reach speeds of over 30 km/hr when driving on roads. If a wheel loader drives over a bump, the resulting shock is […]
Peapod grocery delivery adds hydraulic hybrid trucks to its fleet
Peapod, an online grocer, took delivery of its first two fuel efficient, hydraulic hybrid delivery trucks this month. The vehicles, existing Workhorse walk-in vans with GM gasoline engines and equipped with the Lightning Hybrids Energy Recovery System (ERS), are in service on the streets of Chicago and were partially paid for by the Drive Clean […]
Industry experts lead keynotes at Fluid Power Technology Conference
Three keynote presentations are slated for the inaugural Fluid Power Technology Conference, as the event will be opened both days and closed by industry experts. Kicking off the event on Tuesday, June 21 will be Aleksandar Egelja, Engineering Manager for the Advanced Hydraulics Technology in the Advanced Components and Systems Division at Caterpillar Inc., with […]
Trelleborg Sealing Solutions proves the oil and gas industry is down, but not out
Two weeks ago, I attended the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston. Monday—traditionally the slowest day of the show—was quiet, especially as the rain was only starting to taper off in Houston after a weekend of steady rain. But things picked up Tuesday and while most fluid power exhibitors I spoke with said numbers were […]