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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The mood in Europe’s board rooms is by no means as gloomy as the current world economic situation might have us suppose. This was the somewhat surprising result of a poll of 2,600 companies, conducted by Simon Kucher & Partners corporate consultants.
In spite of declines in orders received and the credit crunch, the vast majority [...]
The new EU Machinery Directive went into force at the end of 2009 and imposed new safety requirements. How should these regulations actually be implemented when designing machine controls? A guideline.
On December 29, 2009, the new 2006/42/EC Machinery Directive went into effect. In addition, a new standard on functional safety, ISO 13849-1, became binding earlier. [...]
Less and less energy in, more and more production out. Can that work? It can. And it must.
The good old-fashioned incandescent light bulb will soon go out forever. Thrifty consumers and demanding legislators have banned it from Europe’s shelves as of 2012. And many more products and technologies are likely to suffer the light bulb’s [...]