igus® energy chains in open-air storage facility for alumina production Whether as a component of capacitors in electrical engineering, corrosion protection in mechanical engineering or insulators in spark plugs: Aluminium oxide and alumin...
Maintenance-Free with a High Load Carrying Capacity – Plain Bearings in X-life Quality – The Pieter Schelte, built by offshore contractor Allseas, is the worlds largest working ship. (Image source: Allseas). BERLIN/SCHWEINFURT, February...
Bearing unit with split bearing from Cooper Krefeld, Germany, January 2015. Split roller bearing specialists Cooper has supplied bearings for the generators of an icebreaker operated by the Canadian Coast Guard. The on-board generators’ e...
Michael Kotelec | Verizon Enterprise Solutions As 2015 approaches its time to look ahead at emerging trends that will impact 21st century manufacturing around the globe. The entire supply chain ecosystem — encompassing manufacturers, dist...
Alignment of vertical water pumps at major waterworks The Haltern Waterworks of GELSENWASSER AG were built in 1908. Today,they are among the largest of their kind in Europe, suppling drinking water to over one million residents in more than...
“With this new style, we’re able to grow QA1’s already expansive line of spherical bearings,” says Jeff Diaz, QA1’s Industrial Product Manager. “What really sets the GEZ Series apart is the quality and strength of the 52100 beari...
For more than two months, the igus Inc. team carried out a mammoth effort of coordinating and executing a car tour from Anchorage, Alaska to New York City, traveling through more than half of the 50 United States, and crossing across Canadia...
Cleveland, OH Global demand for ball, roller, and plain bearings is projected to rise 7.3% annually to $104.5 billion in 2018. Product sales will be fuelled by healthy gross fixed investment and durable goods output growth as world economic...
While privately held companies on average have been growing annual sales by about 8 percent over the past 12 months, a handful of industries are seeing flat or lower sales, based on preliminary data from Sageworks’ financial statement ana...
FLSmidth is a global engineering company supplying one source plants, systems and services to the cement and minerals industries. In September 2013, the company needed to perform the alignment of a three-machine train with two cardan shafts...