November 2011 A pioneering technical innovation: One of the biggest cranes in the world positions loads accurate down to the millimeter. “Nothing’s too heavy, nothing’s too high.” Sarens NV, the Belgian specialist for transporting and handling heavy loads, lives up to its bold motto. The family enterprise forged an ambitious plan last year: setting new [...]
November 2011 An innovative, continuous jacking system developed by Rexroth makes installing and maintaining offshore wind farms even safer, more reliable and more efficient. Weighing around 25,000 tons, the jack-up rig slowly rises out of the sea – as if by magic – and comes to a stop only when high above the waves. These [...]
July 2011 The Panama Canal is being expanded and fitted with new, water-saving locks. Rexroth is delivering all the drive-related components needed for the rolling gates. They help ensure the canal’s uninterrupted operation. In 1914 it was a sensation and in 2014 it will occupy the headlines once again: the Panama Canal. This is the [...]
July 2011 Sophisticated stage technology built by Rexroth makes the Kodály Concert and Conference Center in Pécs a quick-change artist and an acoustic gem. A stone snail that wraps itself around a wooden concert hall. That is how the architects describe the Kodály Concert and Conference Center, dedicated last December in Pécs. This multifunction building [...]
July 2011 Barge Master BV, a Dutch company, has installed Rexroth heave compensation to enhance the usefulness and deployability of offshore cranes. Wind farms at sea, drilling platforms far from the coast. Offshore installations are experiencing a real boom, all around the orld. Construction costs play a major role here. One reason is that there [...]
March 2011 Maximum performance while lowering energy consumption once again – that’s the promise of the new, ready-to-install punching cylinder axes. When pursuing development work targeted on high-efficiency punching cylinder axes, the specialists at Rexroth first analyzed the energy demand patterns in punching and nibbling machines under real-world conditions. The findings: The machinery calls for [...]
October 2010 Saving energy, boosting efficiency, reducing emissions: the BlueHydraulics concept offers many advantages for numerous industries. It includes a broad range of products and systems, individualized engineering — and a new way of thinking. “In the future every hydraulics solution will be measured by its contribution to energy efficiency in factory automation and plant [...]
October 2010 Electric, hydraulic, pneumatic: How do the different types of drives work, and which drives are the best choice for a specific purpose. Electric drives How they work Electrical energy is converted into mechanical kinetic energy. Two magnetic fields, one each at a stator and a rotor, interact. As the magnetic fields constantly try [...]
April 2010 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 [...]
April 2010 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 [...]