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	<description>Das Magazin von Rexroth</description>
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		<title>Swedish roller coaster ride</title>
		<link>http://www.drive-and-control.com/drive_control/swedish-roller-coaster-ride_721</link>
		<comments>http://www.drive-and-control.com/drive_control/swedish-roller-coaster-ride_721#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spherical iron ore pellets start their up-and-down journey north of the Arctic Circle and, thanks to hydraulic drives, never stray from their appointed course.
It’s cold and wet in Sweden’s northernmost town. The weather here in Kiruna, above the Arctic Circle, is so utterly inhospitable that it wasn’t until the start of the twentieth century that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With or without milk?</title>
		<link>http://www.drive-and-control.com/drive_control/with-or-without-milk_719</link>
		<comments>http://www.drive-and-control.com/drive_control/with-or-without-milk_719#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Piping hot coffee at the push of a button. The modern packing systems made by Paal are needed so that consumers can enjoy coffee with the convenience of pre-packed pods. And that company banks on the versatile, high-performance VarioFlow conveyor system built by Rexroth.

Nowadays, Grandma’s wooden coffee grinder will be found only as decoration in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Split-second soldering</title>
		<link>http://www.drive-and-control.com/drive_control/split-second-soldering_717</link>
		<comments>http://www.drive-and-control.com/drive_control/split-second-soldering_717#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Andreas Hohnerlein, Inertec Löttechnologien GmbH


Andreas and Ernst Hohnerlein are meeting new demands in industrial soldering with their patented process for matrix soldering under inert gas. They developed the process and designed a machine suitable for industrial applications.
Large plugs or mechatronic components on today’s state-of-the-art printed circuit boards represent major challenges for industrial soldering processes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Power handling</title>
		<link>http://www.drive-and-control.com/drive_control/power-handling_715</link>
		<comments>http://www.drive-and-control.com/drive_control/power-handling_715#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[drive&control]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Portalink ship unloader transfers 600 tons of grain – twice its own weight – to the silo every hour.
Today, over 90 per cent of the world’s trade is moved by sea. The logistical task is nowhere near finished when the ship has reached port safely: the big job of unloading the cargo has to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The efficient sort</title>
		<link>http://www.drive-and-control.com/drive_control/the-efficient-sort_713</link>
		<comments>http://www.drive-and-control.com/drive_control/the-efficient-sort_713#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s not quite a perpetual motion machine, but Wegener + Stapel has built a highly energy-efficient package distribution system using leading-edge drive technology.



In 1967 Wegener + Stapel started building conveyor systems to handle in-house material flows. Over the years this company, based in Bergen in the German state of Lower Saxony, has earned an impressive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>100 % cotton</title>
		<link>http://www.drive-and-control.com/drive_control/100-cotton_711</link>
		<comments>http://www.drive-and-control.com/drive_control/100-cotton_711#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[High-quality cotton has to be entirely free of foreign fibers. That’s why Trützschler, a German company specializing in textiles processing machinery, aims compressed air at these unwanted contaminants.


Raw cotton often contains foreign objects such as polypropylene scrap or simple dirt. To achieve a quality product, these contaminants have to be removed in a basic cleaning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conducting the bottle minuet</title>
		<link>http://www.drive-and-control.com/drive_control/conducting-the-bottle-minuet_709</link>
		<comments>http://www.drive-and-control.com/drive_control/conducting-the-bottle-minuet_709#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Installing intelligent drive and control technology let one Korean maker of blow molding machinery double productivity.


Polyethylene terephthalate is certainly a tongue-twister but it nonetheless makes it far easier to carry soft drinks. Ever since this plastic – better known as PET – revolutionized the range of bottles available, it seems like we’re carrying only the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The future of mobile working machines</title>
		<link>http://www.drive-and-control.com/future/the-future-of-mobile-working-machines</link>
		<comments>http://www.drive-and-control.com/future/the-future-of-mobile-working-machines#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mobile Hydraulics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How diggers, loaders and tracked vehicles will work tomorrow.

Would Rudolf Diesel have been in the mood for partying if he’d been able to attend his 150th birthday not too long ago? His spontaneous combustion engines, patented in 1893, are coming under considerable pressure. The makers of passenger cars and trucks, and the producers of so-called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Identical output</title>
		<link>http://www.drive-and-control.com/technology/identical-output</link>
		<comments>http://www.drive-and-control.com/technology/identical-output#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hydraulics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linear Motion Technologies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pneumatics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Dr. Hans-Georg Bittner, WTH-Wärmetechnik Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH

Hans-Georg Bittner developed the first fully automatic hardening unit for saw blades. This machine, built by WTH, turns out premium quality, blade for blade. At the same time it’s easy on the environment.
For years now it has been possible to harden large, flat products such as saw blades with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neat and clean working machines</title>
		<link>http://www.drive-and-control.com/technology/neat-and-clean-working-machines</link>
		<comments>http://www.drive-and-control.com/technology/neat-and-clean-working-machines#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mobile Hydraulics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The market for mobile working machines is facing massive challenges. By keeping an eye on the big picture, though, Rexroth systems are helping, even today, to master those tasks.

Manufacturers of mobile working machines are concerned by four major aspects:
♦ energy
♦ the environment
♦ costs
♦ functionality.
Upcoming statutory requirements such as Tier 4 Final and the revised version [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More than just ON and OFF</title>
		<link>http://www.drive-and-control.com/know-how/more-than-just-on-and-off</link>
		<comments>http://www.drive-and-control.com/know-how/more-than-just-on-and-off#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[drive&control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electric Drives and Controls]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There could be no automation without controls. But what do controls actually do and how do they work?
“On” or “off” — those are the states that technical products can assume in the simplest case. A control is a device that alternates between these states, following a predetermined rule. This rule decides how a certain output [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Systematic cooperation</title>
		<link>http://www.drive-and-control.com/technology/systematic-cooperation</link>
		<comments>http://www.drive-and-control.com/technology/systematic-cooperation#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Electric Drives and Controls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linear Motion Technologies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pneumatics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Specialists and service: Rexroth system integrators are the perfect partners for complete, customized solutions.
System integrators act as the liaison between supplier and customer. The advantages: Clients need not have their own specialists in a specific field. They also have direct access to a technology manager. The integrator’s know-how augments the supplier’s direct sales channels by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost in the woods? Hardly!</title>
		<link>http://www.drive-and-control.com/technology/lost-in-the-woods-hardly</link>
		<comments>http://www.drive-and-control.com/technology/lost-in-the-woods-hardly#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hydraulics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linear Motion Technologies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[P.H.L., a Canadian maker of machinery for forest products, uses the complete Rexroth range of technologies. This has paved the way to worldwide success.
This French Canadian firm, a specialist in sawmill and planing machinery, was only looking for new hydraulic components to install in its equipment. What it discovered, however, was that with the performance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>50 tons of frugality</title>
		<link>http://www.drive-and-control.com/technology/50-tons-of-frugality</link>
		<comments>http://www.drive-and-control.com/technology/50-tons-of-frugality#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[drive&control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electric Drives and Controls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hydraulics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industrial Hydraulics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Italy’s leader in die casting technology puts its faith in energy-saving, high-tech products — and in so doing sets new standards.
sing innovation boldly to overcome the crisis. This is the strategy the Agrati Company has adopted as its recipe for success. A leader in die casting machinery for aluminum, white metal and magnesium, the firm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Energy without end</title>
		<link>http://www.drive-and-control.com/present/energy-without-end</link>
		<comments>http://www.drive-and-control.com/present/energy-without-end#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[drive&control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electric Drives and Controls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industrial Hydraulics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Renewable energies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Power, heat, fuel — The world is turning to energy from sources that flow forever.

Climate protection, supply reliability, energy independence, job creation. Many different objectives have driven the enormous growth being seen in the renewable energies markets. While the motivations and approaches adopted by protagonists at work all around the world might differ in detail, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News in brief</title>
		<link>http://www.drive-and-control.com/motion/news-in-brief-110</link>
		<comments>http://www.drive-and-control.com/motion/news-in-brief-110#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Better City, Better Drive
The German pavilion is creating a furor even before the opening of EXPO 2010 in Shanghai on May 1 of this year. The reason for the ruckus is a globe three meters in diameter and weighing 1.2 tons. Visitors’ applause and cheers will cause it to swing and light up its 400,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caution! Glass! Handle with care!</title>
		<link>http://www.drive-and-control.com/technology/caution-glass-handle-with-care</link>
		<comments>http://www.drive-and-control.com/technology/caution-glass-handle-with-care#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Assembly Technologies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Renewable energies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Photovoltaic panels are made of thin and extraordinarily fragile sheets of glass. To ensure their safe movement and precise positioning, the company Heckert-B.X.T. Solar, situated in the state of Saxony, puts its faith in the TSsolar transfer system made by Rexroth.

These are the characters in Jens Bonitz’ nightmares: splintered glass, ruined PV cells, littered transfer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water!</title>
		<link>http://www.drive-and-control.com/technology/water</link>
		<comments>http://www.drive-and-control.com/technology/water#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[drive&control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hydraulics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Modern deep drilling rigs with extensive hydraulic equipment can sink wells quickly, quietly and safely.
In nine years the oil reserves in the U.S.A. will be exhausted. That was the forecast made by the United States Geological Survey in the year 1919. Neither does anyone today know how much fossil energy actually still lies under our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ALL TECHNOLOGY STORIES</title>
		<link>http://www.drive-and-control.com/technology/all_stories</link>
		<comments>http://www.drive-and-control.com/technology/all_stories#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stefan</dc:creator>
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Water!
Modern deep drilling rigs with extensive hydraulic equipment can sink wells quickly, quietly and safely in search for water, oil or gas.


Systematic cooperation
Rexroth system integrators like Fritz Automation or dft are the perfect partners. These specialists for complete, customized solutions add an extra in service as well.


Never lost in the woods
P.H.L., a Canadian maker of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The right measure for 50 years</title>
		<link>http://www.drive-and-control.com/past/the-right-measure-for-50-years</link>
		<comments>http://www.drive-and-control.com/past/the-right-measure-for-50-years#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[drive&control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hydraulics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rexroth was one of the first companies in Europe to adopt JIC connector dimensions and thus helped move standardization forward.
Often it’s the little things that make a big difference. At G. L. Rexroth GmbH in the town of Lohr, at the beginning of the 1960s, the little things were connectors in standard dimensions, following the [...]]]></description>
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