Latest News: Products
Show Preview: K 2025
Over 3,200 exhibitors from around the globe will be showing their products and services during K 2025 (Düsseldorf, Germany; October 8–15; www.k-online.com), the world’s largest tradefair for plastics and rubber. This year’s event will feature the K 2025 Start-up Zone…
Focus On: Pumps
A dispenser for abrasive and viscous fluids NEMO dispensers (photo) are designed for precise dosing and metering of abrasive and viscous fluids. With the ability to handle a wide range of viscosities, shear-sensitive materials and entrained solids, NEMO dispensers deliver…
Show Preview: Powtech Technopharm
The Powtech Technopharm exhibition (Sept. 23–25; Nuremberg, Germany) highlights all types of technologies for processing powders, solids and liquids. This year’s event boasts an exhibit hall and technical forums, all supporting interdisciplinary dialogues and hands-on technology demonstrations. The following are…
Focus on: Pipes, Tubes and Fittings
Reducing wear on pneumatic conveying lines This company’s Smart Elbow® serves to deflect high-speed solid material in pneumatic conveying lines, thus minimizing abrasion and wear on the surface of the pipe. The design is an alternative to a traditional sweep…
Focus on: Mobile Devices and Apps
Interoperability initiative for edge computing devices This company is the newest member of the Linux Foundation’s Margo Initiative (margo.org), a collaborative open-standards project designed to make edge applications, devices and orchestration software work together seamlessly across multi-vendor industrial automation environments.…
Refining Intelligence: Transforming Operations with AI
When challenged by fragmented knowledge and time-intensive manual analysis, artificial intelligence helped to accelerate decision-making during operational events Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic concept in the chemical process industries (CPI) — it is a present-day driver of…
Product Focus: Seals and gaskets
This pump packing has a modular design The AMPS (Advanced Modular Packing System; photo) is a pump packing system designed to offer superior sealing efficiency and significantly reduce leakage and downtime while extending equipment life. It has a focus on…
Smart analysis provides notable drivetrain energy savings
Drivetrain Analyzer Cloud (photo) helps companies significantly reduce the energy consumption of their drive systems through energy-based maintenance. The Connection Module IOT collects extensive data from the drive train and transmits it to the Drivetrain Analyzer Cloud. There, relevant operating…
A synthetic clean and flush product for heat-transfer systems
Globaltherm C1 FF is a synthetic clean and flush product (photo) designed to simplify maintenance for industries relying on heat transfer systems. Globaltherm C1 FF offers a safer, faster and more cost-effective alternative to traditional cleaning methods, says the manufacturer.…
Centrifugal pumps can benefit from this new service platform
This company recently launched its Energy Optimization Service (photo) for centrifugal pumps in energy-intensive industries. This service is designed to create new best-practice standards for the operation of centrifugal pumps across their lifecycle. The solution brings together digital analysis, machine…