Crouzet Automatismes awarded its top suppliers of the year during a ceremony held in late 2016 on its site in Valence, France. The 2016 awards were given out by Florence Coiffet, Crouzet’s purchasing director, who also presented the results and named SOURIAU as the year’s top connector supplier.
INDUCTOTHERM EQUIPMENT BELGIUM, a member of the international Inductotherm group since1985, is specialized in the design, manufacture and commissioning of induction heating equipment for use in the steel industry. Located at Herstal in the Wallonia province of Liège, Inductotherm with its workforce of more than 100 achieves almost all of its annual turnover of €40m in exports with customers in China, India, USA, Korea, Japan and elsewhere. The company delivers between 20 and 30 metal induction heating installations annually. INDUCTOTHERM is the world’s leader in this sector.
The independent seal manufacturer C. Otto Gehrckens developed the new sealing EPDM compound “AP 306” for highly sensitive production processes in the pharmaceutical industry, biotechnology and medical technology
Delta, a global leader in power and thermal management solutions and a world-class provider of industrial automation solutions, is showcasing, at SPS IPC Drives Italia (Parma) 2017, its complete portfolio of next-generation industrial automation products and solutions designed to augment the productivity of manufacturing and industrial processes in a broad spectrum of applications. These include the new compact modular mid-range PLC AS series, featuring slim and modular design with max. 1,024 I/O and remarkable program capacity of 128K steps for multi-axis control to support advance automation machinery, as well as the new ASDA-A3 servo system, boasting a high performance motor with 6,000rpm and a vibration suppression function to enhance the operation integrity of advanced machines.
Esterline Connection Technologies – SOURIAU's JMX series is a plastic push-pull connector for use in the medical industry. It is designed for easy use by any medical professional.
One of the central demands from the valve sector and gas industry has been for a seal material that has suitable low temperature flexibility, and which conforms to the DIN EN 14141 standard. Up until now, there simply hasn’t been a suitable FKM seal material available. But now, the independent seal manufacturer COG has developed a special FKM compound which fulfils the requirements of the valve and gas industry.
Rinaldo Brivio, Global Technical Marketing, Sandvik Materials Technology, explains how operators can strike a balance between optimizing performance in their machining applications while also keeping costs and investments to a low level.