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.

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 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.

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.