productA carbon infrared oven from Heraeus Noblelight has helped Stoelzle Flaconnage to achieve faster curing of organic paint sprayed onto perfume bottles. Its installation has saved space compared with an alternative hot air oven at the Knottingley glass manufacturing plant.
productThe latest version of the Kistler
maXYmos BL offers extended
functionality and a favourable priceperformance
ratio in XY monitoring
for joining and assembly processes
and product testing applications.
productAccording to Versaperm,
there are occasions when a
failing seal is not too much
of a problem, but there are also
mission-critical occasions when they
must not fail – and every stage
between the two. In all of these cases
seals, O-rings, mastics and
enclosures are designed to keep
things either in, or out – usually
water, grease, CO2, oil or solvents.
productHBM has developed the S2M force
transducer to provide high-precision
measurement of compressive and
tensile forces in conjunction with
strain gauges. The transducer features
S-type geometry that achieves
extremely accurate results while
ensuring that measurement errors
resulting from the application of nonaxial
forces remain low.
productThe Prisma project by L A Design &
Sonatest has won the Platinum A’
Design Award at Scientific
Instruments, Medical Devices and
Research Equipment Design
Competition. The project was selected
as a winner by the international
awarding commission of the A’
Design Awards & Competitions
Board’s members.
productA move to a larger 1350m2 plant in
Brierley Hill will enable a thriving
West Midlands engineering company
to increase output and potentially
create extra, highly skilled, jobs.
productThe Technical Services division of
Keighley Laboratories has achieved
world-class Nadcap accreditation for
a Materials Testing Laboratory, a
status recognised by most of global
aerospace primes as a mark of
quality assurance excellence.
articleForce testing, where a known force is applied to a sample in
a controlled manner, has become an integral part of the
manufacturing process, as Carl Bramley, export sales
manager, AMETEK Test & Calibration Instruments, explains
productCompanies that make products as
large as an automobile or as small as a
toaster all share the basic need to
measure colour accurately and reliably
to meet their customers’
specifications, says Peter
Smith of X-Rite.
productThere is still time to register for a
2013 Murex Gas Inspectors Course.
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