Cargill has resumed operations at its hog slaughtering plant in Beardstown, Illinois. This plant processes 19,500 hogs a day. The plant slaughter operations were suspended on 23 January 2015 due to equipment failure, reports Reuters. ...
Gearmotor Creates Simple Solution for Coffee Roaster A coffee equipment manufacturer has been designing coffee roasters for decades using a chain and sprocket system. Due to the cumbersome alignment and installation of this system, the ...
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Gates Carbon Drive is ramping up for next week's Eurobike expo in Germany. The Colorado-based brand's belt drive system is increasingly getting the attention of European electric bike makers, and the company is launching a new range of ...
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A wet and cold spring and summer dampened bike sales and inflated supplier inventories in Europe and globally, leading to rampant discounting. And with many dealers still sitting on 2013 bikes as 2014 models begin shipping, suppliers may ...
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Three Ways an Industrial Puller Can Boost ProductivityMcKenzie Fritch, Industrial Pulley Puller How much downtime does the equipment in your plant cost per hour as maintenance technicians work to remove frozen, rusted, or stuck pulleys, ...
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Houses or buildings usually require garages to park their cars, bikes, trucks and other vehicles. In order to keep these vehicles safe when they are not in use, the garages are meant to have a door. However, you cannot keep opening these ...
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Perhaps it's the growing network of bike paths, trails and green lanes. Or Chicagoans coming to the realization that it takes longer to drive somewhere than to bike. But retailers we visited on day two of the Dealer Tour report a growing ...
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Bicycle Retailer & Industry News editors and sponsors roll out Tuesday morning on a three-day tour of bicycle stores in Chicago. The BRAIN Dealer Tour will visit 13 stores by bike this week, sampling the growing infrastructure for bikes ...
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The drivetrain begins with pedals which rotate the cranks, which are held in axis by the bottom bracket. Most bicycles use a chain to transmit power to the rear wheel. A very small number of bicycles use a shaft drive to transmit power, or ...
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Retailers were awash in data Thursday as the second annual IBD Summit wound down with sessions on key performance metrics used by the National Bicycle Dealers Association’s Profitability Project and why the oft-neglected triathlon ...
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Conveyor sprockets are mainly used in conjunction with the conveyor belts and conveyor chains. They are nothing but toothed gears or wheels that are carefully mounted on the chains with gaps or mesh in a conveyor belt just to transmit ...
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A dealer favorite presentation will be back at this year's IBD Summit, with some added punch this time. The National Bicycle Dealers Association's P2 dealer presentation examines key performance metrics from some of the country's top ...
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Gates Carbon Drive is collaborating with White Industries to create the CDX Freewheel, a screw-on freewheel sprocket for the Gates belt drive system. The CDX Freewheel mates a Carbon Drive CenterTrack sprocket to White’s ENO sealed ...
10 Tips for Maximizing Actuator Life and System PerformanceAaron Dietrich, Marketing Manager, Tolomatic, Inc. Electric rodless actuators have an inherent advantage over rod-style actuators for being able to support and carry loads. This ...
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The Wisconsin Bike Fed has hired Jessica Ginster as development director. Ginster will provide strategic direction in developing donor relations and expanding the Bike Fed's presence, impact and funding statewide. A Wisconsin ...
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