While at the Eaton Distributor Meeting this past September, I got a sneak-peek at one of Eaton’s newest fluid conveyance technologies, new corrosion-resistant plating that significantly outperforms its competitors. One of these technologies was just officially launched. Called Dura-Kote, this plating technology allows Eaton’s carbon steel fluid conveyance products to be rated for up to […]
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PIRTEK continues to expand with new hydraulic hose service location in San Antonio
Pirtek has recently opened its newest Hose Service Center in San Antonio. The addition of this new Center increases the number to five locations servicing the state of Texas with three locations in Dallas and one in Houston. Customers will have easy access to the new Hose Service Center where custom built high pressure hoses […]
Brennan Industries announces promotions & internal changes
Brennan Industries has announced the promotion of three employees and three internal position changes. Jennifer Mismas was promoted from office receptionist/administrator to the role of sales support administrator. In her new role, she will be responsible for coordinating sales related and administrative support activities at Brennan’s corporate headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio. Andrew Mead has assumed […]
High pressure, multi-layer hoses
CRP Industrial, a division of CRP Industries Inc. and a North American supplier of high-pressure thermoplastic and industrial hoses, synchronous belts, and high speed electric motors, offers a family of ReinFlex Thermoplastic Hose designs that provide outstanding performance and durability in a wide variety of industries, including one configuration that safely handles dynamic working pressures […]
Parker Hannifin opens new hose and tubing polymer research center
Parker Hannifin Corp. celebrated the grand opening today of its newly named Donald E. Washkewicz Polymer Innovation Center in Ravenna, Ohio, a new research lab on the grounds of its Parflex hose and tubing division’s headquarters. The Parflex Division designs and manufactures thermoplastic and fluoropolymer hose, tubing and accessories for transportation, medical/life sciences, oil and […]
New hydraulic hose crimper designs simplify crimping operations
Eaton Corp. highlighted some new and concept hydraulic hose crimper designs at its annual Eaton Distributor Meeting earlier this month, with three state-of-the-art crimping machines. Coming from a collaborative effort between Eaton and Uniflex, the new machines can improve set-up and operation time so much that you can crimp up to an hours-worth of hoses […]
GlobalCore reduces engineering and service complexity
Parker Hannifin introduced GlobalCore – five hydraulic hoses and two fittings series that significantly reduce engineering and service complexity by providing the first comprehensive product family across the most commonly used constant working pressure classes. Designed to meet the most common working pressures in industry, GlobalCore is built and tested to the ISO 18752 specification. […]
NORRES hosefinder now available as mobile web app
As of now, NORRES customers can find the right hose for their application anytime and anywhere. The innovative hose finder by NORRES opens up almost unlimited new possibilities. Customers can quickly and easily download the new hose finder to their smartphone. With this innovation, NORRES continues to pursue its strategy of customer-friendly service in its […]
PIRTEK adds DOT-approved high temperature hose to its product line
While the PIRTEK brand is known as a service provider dedicated to minimizing equipment downtime one segment often overlooked is the wide variety of hoses and fittings carried in PIRTEK on site hose workshops and by its Hose Service Centers. A hose often found on commercial vehicles is a blue high temperature hose with a […]
Tiger Talk Video Series goes in-depth with surface mining hoses
The eighth episode of Parker Hannifin’s new Tiger Talk video series provides industry professionals with a detailed breakdown of the company’s surface mining hoses. Parker Hannifin’s Hose Products Division developed the Tiger Talk video series as a simple and convenient online video resource for industry professionals looking to learn more about fluid conveyance technology and […]