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'Torture Tank' assures peak pump performance

16 December 2009
Until now, most replacement vacuum pumps were tested under actual conditions only when they were first connected to a customer's heat treating chamber. Now, Metallurgical High Vacuum puts its new and rebuilt pumps and blowers through a torturous 'stress test' at the factory to assure performance under pump-down conditions.

Linear stages for high throughput and high precision

15 December 2009
Aerotech has launched a new range of high precision linear positioning stages for high throughput industrial production and test applications. The low-cost PRO165LM series features and improves upon Aerotech's time-tested hard-top and side sealed stage design with a powerful direct-drive brushless linear motor, micron level linear encoder feedback and long-life linear motion guide bearings for extremely smooth motion and exceptional servo system sensitivity.

Edwards wins pump order from Indian company BHEL

14 December 2009
Edwards has won an order worth more than £1.5 million to supply liquid ring vacuum pump systems to Indian company Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL). BHEL is India's largest engineering and manufacturing enterprise in the energy-related and infrastructure sector.

Nippon shaft motors - a next generation actuator

28 November 2009
The 'S' series shaft motors from Micromech are a very simple design, have very high accuracy and non-contact. Shaft motors are direct drive linear servomotors that consist of a shaft with laminated magnets and cylindrically wound coils controlled by the flow of current.