Industrial Plant & Equipment

Ongoing quest for better bearings

New developments are taking the performance of selfaligning
roller bearings to new levels, as Phil Burge,
communication manager at SKF, explains

Self-aligning bearings were first
commercially developed in 1907 by
Sve

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Plastic ball bearings

Designed to work in applications
where steel ball bearings fail, the
xiros plastic ball bearings
from igus are dry running,
single row, deep grooved
ball bearings made to DIN
625 standard dimensions.

A xiros ball bea

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Heat resistant seals last six years in thermo forming process

Available from official Dupont
licensee company
Dichtomatik, Dupont Kalrez
Spectrum 6375 O-ring seals, which
were fitted into thermo forming
moulds producing components used
in industrial process automation,
have opera

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Huge potential for energy savings

Atlas Copco Compressors has
released figures indicating that UK
industry could save 16.5 million
kWh of energy in 2012* as a result of
using its energy efficient VSD
compressor technology. Almost 9
million kg of CO2 cou

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Atlas Copco distributor of the year

Peterborough-based Anglian
Compressors has been named as
Atlas Copco Compressors’
Distributor of the Year 2011.

Presenting the award, Mark Keen,
southern sales manager for Atlas Copco
Compressors commented: “The Angli

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Air of expectation

For anyone involved with
compressed air a visit to Air-
Tech 2012 (17th to 19th
April, NEC Birmingham) could
prove to be a day well spent . Entry
is free and once inside there will be
the chance to see the very latest i

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Three to view

Tamsan Compressors (UK) will be
showing three screw compressors at
Air-Tech – an 11kw tank-mounted
unit, an 11kw free-standing variable
speed machine and a 22kw floorstanding
VSD.

The compressors are built in
Turkey

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Rotary vane literature

Rotary vane compressor
manufacturer Mattei has launched a
new suite of company literature with a
fresh look and an easy to use layout
for customers.

Central to the new look literature is
the Mattei energy saving broch

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Co-ordinating components

Hi-line Industries,
manufacturer of compressed
air treatment, conditioning
and purification equipment,
has strengthened its in-house
technical team. Mark Baily
has been appointed service &
production co-ordinator, to

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Special projects

Formed in Italy in the 1960s, ESAM
designs and manufactures highquality
side channel blowers and oilfree
reciprocating compressors.

The company has designed and
produced a compressor for NASA
that weighed just 180 gra

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