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Angels afloat

Angels afloat
Up in Alaska’s oil-tanker lanes, powerful tugboats watch over their big brothers. Nature likes to make us jump through hoops to enjoy her bounty. A good example is the complex and challenging job of bringing crude oil from the Arctic oilfields of Alaska to the contiguous “lower 48” – the states that lie below Canada. First, the crude oil flows through the 800-mile Trans-Alaska Pipeline to a marine terminal at Port Valdez,...
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New sealing (9)

New sealing solutions for deep groove ball bearings

RSL and RSH seals now introduced by SKF are designed to offer longer service life as well as energy savings...

Explorer spherical (1)

SKF Explorer spherical roller thrust bearings boost ….

Another  bearing type has been added to the SKF Explorer class of high-performance products. The addition of spherical roller thrust bearings...

Magnetic bearings (9)

Magnetic bearings – from product innovation to proven solutions

Magnetic bearing performance has been considerably enhanced by sophisticated software-control algorithms. This creates new opportunities for robust, cost-effective and energy-efficient...

Mechatronics – from fuel injection to robotic soccer stars

Some hail it as the mechanical engineering of the 21st century. Others have not yet realized its potential. Regardless, the...

Micromotor packs a punch

Micromotor packs a punch

A motor is normally supposed to rotate. Yet a Swedish start-up has developed a revolutionary new motor that walks. Electrical motors...

Getting ahead by driving backwards

Getting ahead by driving backwards

Fendt customers wanted a smaller tractor that could drive backward as well as forward. Fendt turned to Neumaier Industrie-Technik to...

Preadjustable (2)

Preadjustable non-locating bearing unit

The SKF Panloc is a non-locating bearing unit that allows the internal clearance or preload to be adjusted to specific...

Dry downtown

London’s massive Thames Barrier is often called the eighth wonder of the world.  Inaugurated by Queen Elizabeth II in 1984,...

Pumping for survival

The history of manufacturing is peppered with case studies illustrating the immutable power of market demand and showing how demand...