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New Baldor guide is a valuable resource for automation builders

Baldor has released a major new catalogue overviewing the extensive range of industrial motors, drives, power transmission and motion control products it stocks in Europe. It's a handy reference for any engineer building or maintaining machinery and industrial automation, and is available in electronic or paper forms. The 120-page guide is a valuable resource for automation builders and maintainers alike. It details hundreds of the most common... [more]

Kestrel Mechanical selects Schneider Electric's TeSys U motor starter controllers for boiler room upgrade

Kestrel Mechanical are responsible for the service, maintenance and repair of the boiler plant in 88 BUPA care homes throughout London and the South East. The contractor has started an energy-saving programme to update their boiler rooms. In designing the HVAC control system, Kestrel has chosen Schneider Electric’s TeSys U motor starter controllers for all the pumps and motors. The scheme to update the HVAC plant is in line with Bupa’s carbon... [more]

Schneider Electric simplifies motion control offer with Lexium 32 servo drive launch

Schneider Electric has launched its Lexium 32 range of three servo drives and two servo motor types. The new simplified drive range comes in a compact book style, offering maximum efficiency in a reduced space. The Lexium 32 range has been developed to meet OEM architectures, with advanced tuning features and motors with a wide machine inertia. Applications span a wide range of machinery including printing, textiles, packaging and material ... [more]

Festo launches ELGR toothed belt drive axis to enter the low-cost electric actuator market

Festo has entered the low-cost electric actuator market with the launch of a unique toothed belt drive axis which marries cost-optimised design rules with precision engineering. Costing 65 percent less than Festo’s EGC series high performance electromechanical axes, the new ELGR toothed belt axis sets a new price-performance standard for the motion control industry. Designed primarily for applications involving relatively short stroke lengths... [more]

PULS UK launches smallest 40Amp 3-phase power supply on the market

PULS UK has announced the launch of the super-compact QT 40, which measures only 110 x 124 x 127mm and weighs in at a mere 1.5 kg, making it the smallest 40Amp, 3-phase power supply on the market. Two versions of the new QT 40 are available, 24V 40A and 48V 20A, both delivering 960 Watts with record-breaking efficiency of 95.3%. The QT 40’s high performance has been achieved by PULS UK’s use of three micro-controllers to maintain optimum ... [more]

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