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Continental introduces eco-friendly hose

August 13, 2020 By Ken Korane Leave a Comment

The Continental business unit of ContiTech has introduced a new eco-friendly garden hose called EcoRubber that uses sugar cane ethylene, rather than petroleum-based products, thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 85%. It is reportedly the first plant-based polymer hose in the world. “Continental is paving the way of a circular economy by consistently evaluating renewable […]

Filed Under: Featured, Hydraulic hose, Industry News, Uncategorized Tagged With: continental

Auto-Dock Systems: The future is now

August 6, 2020 By Mike Santora Leave a Comment

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Advances in hydraulic connection technology are again evolving within mobile machinery and tool/attachment design while positively impacting professional use. The increased demands of worksite productivity and efficiency by the expert user have challenged manufacturers of machines, attachments, and component suppliers with technological improvements. After all, “time is money.” This article focuses on the advances of […]

Filed Under: Couplings, Featured, Industry News, Quick-acting Tagged With: CEJN

Hydraulic hose expertise helps a customer fulfill his green-living dream

July 28, 2020 By Mary Gannon 1 Comment

Power Drives Inc hydraulic hose expertise

Power Drives Inc., a manufacturer and distributor specializing in fluid transference and filtration, was faced with a unique challenge when a customer came into one of their Express Hose Centers with the intention of fully restoring a 1960 Case 430 backhoe loader. The customer was looking to bring the tractor back to its former shape […]

Filed Under: Featured, Hose Assembly Blog, Hydraulic hose Tagged With: powerdrivesinc

Gates Global eCrimp app leads host of advances across hydraulics range

July 17, 2020 By Paul Heney Leave a Comment

Gates recently added a universal mobile app to its ever-expanding, ever-improving range of hydraulics solutions. The eCrimp app builds on a previous North America-focused version, adding global capability, automatic updates and new functionality to assist fluid power customers across a wide variety of industries, applications and geographic regions. The latest eCrimp app provides access to […]

Filed Under: Crimpers, Featured Tagged With: gates

Hose reels available in a variety of stainless steel options

July 13, 2020 By Mary Gannon Leave a Comment

Coxreels stainless steel hose reels SS combo T-series

Coxreels is pleased to offer various stainless steel grade choices, servicing exact specification needs. Coxreels offers complete stainless steel reels and powder-coated steel reels with stainless steel fluid paths. Now customers can choose between 316 and 304 grade stainless steels for their fluid paths on many reel types to best match the necessary corrosion resistance […]

Filed Under: Accessories, Featured, hose reels Tagged With: coxreels

Dixon crimp chart fully integrated into Uniflex C2 controller

June 26, 2020 By Mary Gannon Leave a Comment

When you assemble a hose, aren’t you tired of looking for a spec on a crimping table? Doing your own measurement calculation? Choosing the wrong ferrule or hit the wrong crimping diameter? Messing with QS measurement? Dixon and Uniflex engineers have been working together for the past few years on the integration of the whole […]

Filed Under: Accessories, Crimpers, Featured, Industry News Tagged With: Uniflex

Mass customization comes to hydraulic tubing

June 25, 2020 By Ken Korane Leave a Comment

Mobile-machine builders are requiring ever more intricate and complex tubing configurations that handle higher pressures and permit more-efficient flows.

Flexible manufacturing of hydraulic tubing assemblies has become an essential part of agricultural equipment production. Efficient and cost-effective manufacturing of agricultural and mobile equipment today depends on highly engineered production systems. And that holds not only for complete machines like tractors and combine harvesters, but also for essential subsystems like hydraulic tubing assemblies. transfluid Maschinenbau […]

Filed Under: Featured, Pipe and tube Tagged With: transfluid

Cracking the code on existing pneumatic fittings

June 21, 2020 By Mary Gannon Leave a Comment

Figure 1. Pneumatic fittings come in a variety of styles and materials with threaded ports or push-to-connect designs to attach pneumatic tubing to valves. All courtesy of AutomationDirect

Here are some tips to properly identify pneumatic fitting and component sizes when working on or retrofitting existing older machines. Contributed by Kevin Kakascik, Technical Marketing Engineer, AutomationDirect It’s just another typical day in your operations office, located right off the manufacturing floor. Demand for the company’s product is very high and the entire production […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fittings, Pneumatic Tagged With: AutomationDirect

How are clamping systems used in fluid power?

May 20, 2020 By Mary Gannon Leave a Comment

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From a fluid power design perspective, the circuit and subsequent major components take the majority of the focus. Actuators, valves, pumps and conditioning components rightfully take center stage, leaving accessory components out of the design stage and left for the technicians to worry about during fabrication. However, factoring all parts – no matter how insignificant […]

Filed Under: Featured, Hydraulic hose, Pipe and tube

NAHAD announces continuation of the current Board members’ term

May 15, 2020 By Paul Heney Leave a Comment

NAHAD, The Association for Hose and Accessories Distribution, has announced the continuation of the current Board members’ term for an additional year. The decision was voted upon at the first-ever Virtual Meeting of Members, held May 13, in lieu of NAHAD’s traditional in-person meeting. For the first time in its history, NAHAD was forced to cancel […]

Filed Under: Featured, Industry News

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