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Every two years, Igus honors innovative energy chain applications with the vector award. First place this year went to the multi-spindle lathe from Gildemeister Italiana. A green vector award was also presented for the first time.
read more...Polyetherketones are modern high-performance plastics that are particularly resilient and temperature-resistant.
read more...Plastics have become an integral part of our everyday lives. Due to the numerous starting materials and their properties as well as the very different end products, there are correspondingly different processes for the industrial processing of polymer materials.
read more...Unilever has replaced four positive displacement blowers in Mannheim with more energy-efficient, oil-free screw blowers from Atlas Copco. The compressed air is used to pneumatically convey intermediate products from the wash piece production to the packaging lines.
read more...Thomson Industries, manufacturer of linear actuation solutions, has introduced an electro-hydraulic actuator with the displacement force of hydraulic cylinders, without their complex infrastructure and laborious handling of the pressure medium.
read more...In everyday life, we naturally use our hands for various tasks. It makes sense to equip robots in collaborative workspaces with a gripper that is based on this natural model and can learn through artificial intelligence.
read more...The ACD 1200 extraction and filtration system from ULT filters hazardous air pollutants from the ambient air.
read more...In collaborative robotics, manually operated systems are also used in addition to fully automatic gripper changing systems. With the QC75, Gimatic has developed a collaborative manual changer that is tailored to the requirements of cobots.
read more...A new short-stroke linear actuator from Ketterer Antriebe and Halstrup-Walcher, which has now been launched on the market, is said to be much easier to control than pneumatic cylinders.
read more...The new short-stroke linear actuator from Ketterer Antriebe and halstrup-walcher is characterized by high dynamics and a large stroke in a compact size. Thanks to the integrated electronics, the drive is easy to control compared to pneumatic cylinders.
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