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Carbon nanotubes offer potential as flame retardants

Frost and Sullivan reports that carbon nanotubes offer a number of advantages over conventional flame retardants in a market worth around $3billion

Self-aligning bearings cope with axial displacement

SKF is launching a self-aligning bearing system that uses a toroidal roller bearing and a spherical roller bearing to avoid problems with axial displacement

Connector handles copper cable and fibre optics

The latest addition to Harting's Han 3 A connector range enables copper conductors and optical fibres to be combined within a common housing

Cable-actuated position sensor is compact and reliable

ASM's new WS17KT series draw-wire sensor is capable of measuring distances of up to 15m in harsh industrial environments

New Modbus interface module for miniature server

Compulogic is launching a new Modbus interface module to expand the capability of its Picoserve range of miniature web servers

Safety interlock modules suit wider range of PLCs

Additions to Fortress Interlocks' modular Egard range of controls and interlocks enable the products to be used with both current-souring and current-sinking PLCs

Top Tec PCB Ltd - Printed Circuit Board Manufacturer

Top Tec PCB Ltd specialises in the supply of printed circuit boards with 1 to 30 layers! The PCB manufacturer provides low cost, high quality printed circuit board prototypes as well as small or large quantities.

Stencil solution for ultra fine-pitch printing

For advanced applications such as wafer level packaging, direct chip attach, flip chip and ball grid arrays

Lowest voltage EEPROM devices

First EEPROM family with read and write operations at 1.5V and less than 400µA; suitable for battery powered applications

Space-saving mobile radio modem for industrial applications

Allows users to connect and monitor remote applications via the packet-orientated data transfer service in locations where a landline connection does not exist

ROVs sold to China’s largest off-shore engineering company

Fitted with dual manipulator arms; brush cleaning and water jetting tools; disc and cable cutting tools; cameras, lights and sonar with bathymetric system

Meeting the latest safety standards in pneumatics

Ensuring the health and safety of the users of pneumatic equipment has led to unprecedented levels of industry regulation

Improving quality of power measurements with IEEE1459

Standard defines rigorous measure of distortion power, a measure of the power consumed due to imperfections in the current and voltage sinusoid

Dedicated evaluation board for intelligent power modules

Board reduces the time and cost required for designing a PCB based on Mitsubishi Electric’s DIPIPMs Version 4

HMIs with wide-ranging industrial Ethernet support

The HMIs have their own visualisation software and are suitable for simple operating and monitoring tasks in all kinds of processes

Wireless power: the next wave in powering electronic devices

New analysis from Frost and Sullivan finds that induction based wireless power could represent the next wave in powering portable electronics

New 85 Ohm addition to backplane connector system

Allows designers the flexibility of interchanging 100 Ohm and 85 Ohm signal modules based on system needs, says Molex

Computer-on-module is more compact

Kontron claims that its new microETXexpress-PC is the smallest COM Express Pinout Type 2 compatible computer-on-module currently available

Innovative compact seal suits dynamic applications

New from Trelleborg Sealing Solutions is the Turcon Roto VL seal that is designed for dynamic applications with medium- or high-pressure fluids

Speed control mounts on permanent magnet DC motors

Bison Gear has developed the Tightdrive speed controller that can be mounted directly onto motors to give a 20:1 speed range

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