The highly-anticipated Bauma China 2010 international heavy equipment expo started on Tuesday at the Shanghai New Expo Center (SNIEC). More than 1,860 exhibitors from 37 countries were expected to participate in the expo, which ends on Friday, and more than 130,000 trade visitors were expected at the 23,0000-square-meter SNIEC. The number of exhibitors and the extensive area of the expo center have made the exhibition one of the largest of its kind in the world. Exhibitors will display new products ranging from construction machinery and building material machines to construction vehicles and equipment. Products displayed at the expo aim to…
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Investors looking for another way to play the economic recovery may want to look at Canada’s heavy equipment dealers. Those firms are poised to scoop up big gains as mining, construction and forestry companies begin to replace their worn fleets of hulking machines. Shares of Finning (FTT-T26.000.160.62%) and Toromont (TIH-T29.87-0.11-0.37%), two of the country’s biggest dealers, touched 52-week highs in the last few days as numerous signals point to better days ahead for an industry hit hard by the recession. Both stocks received a boost this week from Caterpillar Inc. (CAT-N83.970.861.03%), the world’s largest maker of construction and mining equipment.…
MAG’s latest horizontal boring mill (HBM) is for heavy-metal milling, as well as multi-axis contouring, boring, drilling and tapping on large parts for the construction, oil field and wind industries. The FTR 3500 is a mid-sized job-shop machine, capable of a full 2m reach inside parts with a ram-supported spindle. The machine’s collinear ram, made from ductile iron, adds a 1m W-axis reach to the spindle’s existing 1m extension. It provides maximum rigidity for full-power cuts by minimising spindle extension. The ram’s 400 x 500mm cross section is sized for extended reach with rigid support to enable the machine to…
On a grey day on Wearside, the biggest building at Liebherr Sunderland Works looms out on the shoreline like some giant shoebox. It looks to have the ideal dimensions for making cranes, which is what this unit of Switzerland’s Liebherr Group has been doing there for 20 years, But its original use was for shipbuilding, and the availability of welders, fabricators, platers, fitters and electricians from that declining sector was one of the attractions for Liebherr when it established the company in 1989, says Ralph Sälzer, managing director. Other reasons were the availability of official support at regional and city…
Crown’s new C-5 series can lift from 4,000 to 6,500 pounds. Crown Equipment Corp. has unveiled an internal combustion Class V pneumatic tire forklift designed for heavy-duty outdoor applicaitons. The Crown C-% Series is equipped with an industrial John Deere Power Systems engine, a dual open-core radiator, a long-lasting power brake and solid tires as standard. The forklift is available in capacities ranging from 4,000 to 6,500 pounds. “When we entered the IC market in 2009 with the Crown C-5 Series cushion forklifts, we were responding to our customers’ requests for more durable and productive IC forklifts that were easier…
There has been a huge movement in the last few years for Americans to buy American-made items. It is partially because when you purchase goods made in a specific country – it’s that country’s economy that benefits from the purchase. In these days of economic hardships in the United States, it only makes sense for Americans to buy American to help bolster our own economy. Soy candles are a terrific way to buy American. The American farmer plants dried soybeans as seeds each spring. Then when the growing season is finished, the American farmer will harvest the ripe soybeans. After…
If only we had CNC on our heavy machines On visits to heavy engineering and power station maintenance shops, the production engineers there have often said: “If only we had CNC on this Kearns horizontal borer, on this Noble and Lund plano miller ….” Well, Acu-Rite, manufacturers of digital read-out systems and 3D CNC retrofit ‘kits’, is now able to take enquiries from users of ‘heavy’ and ‘super-heavy’ machine tools. Two Rock Hill men were arrested for stealing heavy construction equipment earlier this month, according to a York County Sheriff’s Office Report. Mark Giles Pafford, 55, of Ferguson Drive and…
Once your tattoo is complete the tattoo artist will tell you the best way to take care of your new tattoo and it is probably a good idea to listen to him. Most shops will have an information sheet listing care instructions. There are three things to remember about caring for your new tattoo, moisturize it but do not over moisturize it and most importantly, NEVER pick at the scabs as they begin to form. If you choose to do otherwise and neglect these rules, you run the risk of getting infected and you also run the risk of ruining…
A tattoo may be beautiful but it is still an open wound so it needs the right amount of care in order for it to heal properly. Each particular stage of the healing process means that the tattoo will require one different sort of caring method or the other. Tattoos should be kept as clean as possible and as free from germs as can be possibly mustered. Healing stages differ from one person to the next so this issue will have to be factored into the equation as well. Lots of factors tend to play their respective roles in the…
A new polyurethane material enables high-performance seals to withstand soaring temperatures and deliver excellent rebound characteristics under extreme pressure. Ceetak UK, has launched a new range of high-performance seals based on a new polyurethane material, created by the Parker Hannifin Worldwide Seal Group, that is capable of withstanding the most extreme operating conditions. The new, state-of-the-art P4300 seal’s ability to withstand soaring temperatures and deliver excellent rebound characteristics under extreme pressure is unmatched by any other commercial seal. The new PPDI-based seal excels in the kind of conditions that most polyurethane compounds find intolerable. For instance, the P4300 seal operates…