21 August 2024 Siemens claims to be producing the world’s first “green” control cabinets, made from scrap metal, produced using renewable energy. The Sivacon 8MF1 cabinets, from… Read More
8 January 2024 The Japanese bearings-maker NSK claims that it can revise the basic dynamic load rating of many of its rolling bearings to double their rolling contact… Read More
20 July 2023 Researchers from the University of Sheffield in the UK, working with colleagues from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US, have developed an electric motor… Read More
28 June 2023 Two Italian companies – the robot-maker Comau and the shipbuilder Fincantieri – have unveiled a mobile robotic welding system at the Automatica exhibition in Germany. Read More
27 July 2022 Mushrooming demand for electrical steels for use in EV (electric vehicle) motors is pushing up prices and lengthening lead times for industrial and commercial motors,… Read More
3 February 2022 UPDATED: The average global price of low-voltage AC motors soared by 14% during 2021, compared to 2020 levels, and could rise by a further 8.5%… Read More
12 October 2021 Igus has developed a maintenance-free plastic material for food industry plain bearing applications, that is designed to withstand friction and high temperatures, and to dissipate… Read More
21 October 2019 At the PPMA show earlier this month, Uttoxeter-based Apex Dynamics UK made its public debut with a range of servo gearboxes that it claims are… Read More
20 February 2018 German researchers have discovered that the sharpness of the tools used to cut the electrical steels used in the cores of electric motors, can have… Read More
14 June 2017 Schaeffler has developed a new steel for rolling bearings which, combined with a carbonitriding heat treatment process, offers both harder surfaces and a higher ductility… Read More
