The Miniflex Optical Fibre Protection Tubing (OFPT) offers the ultimate protection to optical fibres and cables. It provides protection against crushing and kinking of fibres and hazardous tensile loads, while limiting any bends to an acceptable radius. The unique Miniflex patented technology which makes very hard materials flexible, is specifically designed with this purpose in mind. (read more)

MCG Surge Protection of Deer Park, NY recently introduced data line protection designed to guard critical control circuits from lightning-induced transients. The UL-listed DLP-25 series comes in three offerings – light duty, standard duty, and heavy duty and protects up to five wires. The DLP-25 uses a compact aluminum DIN rail mount enclosure. Also mounts on flat surface. (read more)

Knowing how perforated materials are typically used in industrial, architectural, and design applications may help you determine whether or not you have a use for it. (read more)

A new, low-profile, digital optical encoder that incorporates a new maskless sensing technique that provides jitter-free output signals for more precise position information has been developed and released for installation on the vendor's permanent magnet DC motors. (read more)

A pulsed UV system for R/D laboratories involved with the bio-reduction sterilization of air, water, food, pharmaceuticals, and surface decontamination is available from XENON Corporation (read more)

Neodymium 50 Rare Earth magnets are the most powerful permanent magnets available in separators, and are now available in all cartridge-based Magnetic Metal Separation Equipment manufactured by Bunting Magnetics Co. Products utilizing these cartridges include individual cartridges, grate magnets, liquid traps, and high-capacity drawer magnets. (read more)

A company specialising in automated life science applications, is using Watson-Marlow Bredel's OEM pumps on a fully automated flexible batch cell culture machine. The SelecT machine was designed to help a consortiom of 6 major pharmaceutical companies meet the challenges of producing high quality, consistent cells for drug discovery on demand (read more)

Klock Werks Kustom Cycles produced custom bike parts in 5 days, reducing production time 82 percent. KlockWerks used direct digital manufacturing with FDM to make custom end-use motorcycle parts directly from CAD files without tooling. The parts were strong and accurate enough for permanent use on the bike, saving $13,000 and three weeks. (read more)

Jaeger^® brand "IA4A/B Series" linear actuators from SKF^® benefit from highly robust engineering for optimized and reliable performance in the most demanding AC-powered industrial applications. Enhanced corrosion resistance and effective O-ring sealing contribute added protection in harsh operating environments. (read more)

The PURO CELL® filter is a carbon loaded rigid box-type gas phase filter providing medium and high-efficiency filtration combined with odor control. High surface area-to-depth ratios provide the maximum amount of effective filter media in areas of minimum in-line duct space with carbon-loaded box filters that remove airborne contaminants at levels less than one particle per million. (read more)