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Archive - März 2015
Pepperl+Fuchs, a Mannheim-based company, is known amongst other things for its high-quality explosion protection products. However, through its global network...
In the chemical industry systems and plants have to ensure the greatest possible availability and unrestricted operational reliability. Against this background...
Production processes that run 24/7 need reliable and energy efficient drive systems to maintain a cost effective process. For one pharmaceutical manufacturer...
The purpose of pumps is to ensure that water is supplied to consumers reliably throughout a distribution network, irrigation water is provided for cultivating...
Marking in the process industry is not a simple subject due to the strict requirements which apply there. They include high resistance to environmental effects...
Centrifugal pumps are amongst the most frequently used pumps in the chemical and petrochemical industries, accounting for 80 to 90 % of the total. Their...
Check valves increase plant safety. When mixing liquids, for example, they prevent the liquid mixture from flowing back into the lines carrying the pure...
With its FE Series, Fette Compacting developed a tailor-made technology for every task. The FE75 tablet press rounds off this acclaimed series of machines...
Continuous level measurements of bulk solids have undergone a dramatic change over the last ten years. Today, radar technology is an increasingly popular...
NIR spectroscopy allows the identity and concentration of substances to be safely determined. The Spectrobay system based on NIR spectroscopy, which Krohne...
BASF has been present in Brazil for a whole century and for over half that time it has also manufactured in the country. Business is going well for the...
For decades, conventional polymerisation has been the norm in the production of elastomers. The time and cost involved in removing and treating solvents in the...
Noax has designed its C12 and C15 industrial PCs to focus specifically on the requirements of the logistics industry. The vehicle terminals are ideal for use...
More and more new products in ever shorter cycles – and the chemical industry is no exception to this trend. New or improved raw materials, preparations and...
Some persistent harmful substances in wastewater, such as aromatic hydrocarbons, cannot be broken down by biological wastewater treatment plants. Fraunhofer...
Dusty air is everywhere – the reality behind this saying often causes headaches for manufacturers and producers of food and beverage, pharmaceutical and...
Jessberger's JP-360 (600 W) and JP-380 (825 W) drives are compactly built, externally ventilated universal motors with protection class IP 55. The handy, very...
From 15 to 19 June 2015 the doors will open on Achema 2015. As in 2012, the organisers anticipate around 3,800 exhibitors. A clear trend is already emerging:...
By means of high pressure water, Uraca cleaning systems remove various incrustations inside of autoclaves, reactors, spray towers and vessels. The pump unit...
The BL 550 set-point alarm relay from Knick’s Basicline programme is a versatile solution for standard signal monitoring and control. The compact device...
The Wika digital indicator model DI32–1 is multi-functional and, with its compact dimensions (48 x 24 x 52 mm), ideal for applications with limited mounting...
With the 2610 solenoid valve Bürkert presents a valve for high and extremely low temperatures. Due to the thermal decoupling of the fluidic body and the...
The Optima CMF horizontal cartoner is ideal for flexible cartoning of lotion, make-up bottles and cream pots. Liners and folding box blanks are provided by the...
Woma offers a versatile range of tank cleaning heads for rinsing or cleaning tanks and containers. The Tankmaster range features a gear unit that disperses the...
The DL01 from BD Sensors is a battery-powered precision instrument specifically designed for leak testing and pipe network monitoring. It is based on the...
Steute has developed a position switch variant for extreme applications which does not work using the conventional on/off technology, but transmits an analogue...
B&R has improved the servo motors from the 8LS series in many details. For example, size 2 and 3 motors with the same technical data are now much more...
The Flux air-operated diaphragm pumps type RFM with the design sizes 10, 15, 25 and 40 made of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) and the variants RFML 25 and 40...
With Frontcom Vario, Weidmüller is offering a compact service interface for switch and control cabinets to ensure simple access to the control system/PC and...
After 20 years of successful ifm pressure sensor history, the new generation of PN sensors was developed in close coordination with the users. High overload...
Bürkert has eliminated control-related elements for the 8741 mass flow controller (MFC)/mass flow meter (MFM). These control tasks are assumed by a...
The SFC5000 series of digital mass flow controllers leverages Sensirion’s CMOSens technology to provide high accuracy and reliability. It enables precise...
With the EX25 2D multi range barcode imager for Ecom’s i.roc Ci70 -Ex it is possible to read a wide range of 1D and 2D barcode types quickly and accurately...
The T.Vis control top is a system to operate and monitor the GEA process valves. It is available in several variations to match the requirements of different...
The L-Vis 520 Ex inline viscometer continuously displays the viscosity and temperature of petrochemicals, lubricants, detergents, viscose and many more process...
The coding and marking laser system Rea Jet CL IP 65 was developed and especially designed for use in rough industrial environments: the laser technology...
The Mettler Toledo 2-wire transmitter M100 is used for liquid analytics in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. The M100 is based on a compact head...
The metrological performance of high temperature ovens made by Kambic is very good and their operation intuitive and flexible. In testing, tempering and...
Ham-Let Let-Lok tube fittings are strictly standardised and designed for high performance in the most demanding industrial applications. The fittings are...
GEA big bag fillers can fill up to ten bags an hour with a single operator and operates in a new way that ensures the stability of the filled bags, making them...
A range of different lights are required in hazardous areas, e. g. individual luminaires, floodlights, compact luminaires or even full-scale emergency lighting...
The GMW80 series from Vaisala has been developed to fulfill requirements for CO2 measurements in standard demand-controlled ventilation applications. The GMW80...
On 26 March 2015, Dyneon GmbH, together with its cooperating partners, the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, the University of Bayreuth and the institute...
The Optima packaging group GmbH (Germany) has completed the fiscal year 2014 with a growth in performance of around 10 %. Consolidated turnover for the company...
10.03.2015 - Sartorius is selling its Industrial Technologies Division (Intec) to the Japanese Minebea Co., Ltd. and their partner, the Development Bank of...
A new supercomputer – an HPC cluster with 512 cores, 90 TB of disk space and 2 TB RAM – puts GEA Process Engineering in a league of its own regarding...
04.03.2015 - Uhde Inventa-Fischer has been awarded a major contract from the Polish chemical group Grupa Azoty to build a polyamide 6 plant. The multiline...