In early 2013 the Frankenthal-based pump and valve manufacturer KSB will launch its new compact unit for reverse osmosis seawater desalination. The Salino Pressure Center consists of an axial piston pump and an axial piston motor, arranged ...
Tags: market view, Seawater Desalination
Compact unit lowers costs of reverse osmosis seawater desalination In early 2013 the Frankenthal-based pump and valve manufacturer KSB will launch its new compact unit for reverse osmosis seawater desalination: The SALINO Pressure Center. ...
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You may not have heard, but BMW now offers its luxurious 5 Series sedan as hybrid. We recently spent a few days with a BMW ActiveHybrid 5 to see if it lives up to the promise and share our first impressions. The car was borrowed from ...
Tags: lithium-ion battery, BMW, sedan
Priced at about $50,000, the upcoming pure-electric RAV4 EV is government-rated at 76 mpg equivalent (MPGe) with a 103-mile range. This electric SUV will go on sale in California on Sept 24th. Available for purchase or lease, the RAV4 EV ...
Tags: Toyota, Electric car, electric SUV
The redesigned 2013 Honda Accord goes on sale this month, boasting new features, upscale enhancements, and improved fuel economy. But the bigger news is a plug-in hybrid version due this winter. We had a chance this week to experience this ...
Tags: Honda Accord, new features, upscale enhancements, improved fuel economy
An all electric injection molding machine offers several important benefits, mostly related to the fact that individual motors control each function, as opposed to a control system consisting of a complicated arrangement of hydraulic hoses. ...
Tags: Industry Trends, All-electric injection molding machine
Today BMW unveiled its first BMW i Store in Park Lane,London.The store offers a completely new brand experience focused on sustainable mobility. "BMW i Park Lane marks a completely new approach,"commented Ian Robertson,Member of the ...
Production efficiency was the focus of this year’s Technology Days event, organized in March by injection molding machinery producer Arburg GmbH + Co. KG in Lossburg. Arburg defines production efficiency as an overarching “meta ...
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KraussMaffei lifted the veil this week on a new GX two-platen hydraulic drive injection moulding machine series. The range, of which six tonnages are available within 400 and 650 tonnes, was on show at the company’s Munich-Allach ...
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At Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery GmbH’s open house event in Wiehe facility in September, the company’s process development specialist André Luck described the ActiveLock and ActiveFlowBalance systems and how ...
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Korbinian Kiesl, CEO of French injection moulding machinery producer Billion, says the company has achieved its best turnover - €35m in the 2010/11 financial year – since 2005, when Kiesl acquired the company. Speaking at this ...
Compression and injection moulding machinery producers are competing in improving closure moulding cycle time and energy consumption. But the target keeps moving, as European Plastics News reveals in a comparison two groups' data. Walter ...
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