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Featuring a non-halogen filler, Master Bond EP21FRNS-2 passes UL 94V-0 testing for flame retardancy in potting, encapsulation and casting applications. It produces very low smoke levels and is well suited for the computer, aerospace and related industries. Read More

Engineers are very much in demand; it’s one of those careers that evolves as society and industry changes. Engineering is such a diverse career too, from space exploration to road haulage, from oil tankers to refrigeration plants, wind farms to power stations; engineers are pivotal to so much of what we take for granted today. Read More

A leading packager of vitamin products needed assurance that sealed vitamin packs contained the 3, 4, 5, or 6 vitamins they were specified to contain. Customer complaints about missing vitamins had sky rocketed since line speed had been increased to 420 packs per minute. Read More

A leading provider of commemorative coins was having difficulty in accurately and efficiently weighing 1 oz. silver coin blanks. Regulation requires no coin can weigh below 1 oz. and any amount over 1 oz. cannot be charged to a customer and comes straight out of profit. Read More

A biogenetics company that supplies liquid chemical compounds for DNA and blood testing could not maintain specification fill levels on its vials. The company had seven different products that were being filled in five different size vials. The price of the chemicals ranged from $0.50 to $30 per gram. Read More

A global bakery supplier of liquid glaze and frosting was inconsistently filling 3 and 5 gallon pails of product. Because of variability in the product flow as plant temperatures increased after start up, the time-fill machine was overfilling the buckets by as much as 5% to ensure that minimum specification weights were met. Read More

A leading consumer products company was experiencing blow molded bottle failures on it’s bleach filling line. Underweight bottles would collapse during the fill and overweight bottles would crack. Once the failed bottles came in contact with product they could no longer be used as regrind and became landfill. Read More

Long time US thrust bearing manufacturer, Auburn Ball Bearing, received a request from a renowned medical device company to manufacture a custom-made mini thrust bearing for a delicate medical part to be used in an innovative treatment for scoliosis. Read More

The deployment of progressively more complex telecommunication techniques, including 802.11ac, together with the adoption of advanced multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) technologies will fuel the global radio frequency (RF) testing market. Read More

Natural draft, utilizes buoyancy via a tall chimney. Warm, moist air naturally rises due to the density differential to the dry, cooler outside air. This moist air buoyancy produces a current of air through the tower. Read More

An indirect, or closed circuit cooling tower involves no direct contact of the air and the fluid being cooled. Unlike the open cooling tower, the indirect cooling tower has two separate fluid circuits. Read More