HEADLINES ARCHIVE
Spotlight on Woodex Bearing Company and MECO Seal
Woodex Bearing Company has a long-standing reputation for high quality manufacturing, with over 100 years of manufacturing, split, oil-impregnated wooden bearings for general service, along with over 30 years manufacturing MECO’s innovative shaft seal designs operating over a wide range of process equipment, from mechanical screw conveyor seals, to very large split seals, to case-specific, custom-engineered seals.
Slugs Inspire Alternative to Staples, Sutures
Inspired by nature, Brigham and Women's Hospital researchers are looking at the Dusky Arion Slug's defensive and elastic slime as an alternative to the sutures and staples used in surgery.
A Powerful Vacuum Pump Without the Frills
The vacuum pump from Piab of Sweden targets automated industrial procedures involving packaging, sheet metal and wood products.
Knife Gate Valve Fills Market Gap for Mid-Service Mining Applications
The valve offers mining and mineral processing companies a solution to the abrasion and corrosion conditions that plague mid-service applications while significantly increasing reliability and service life.
Preventing Errors on Food Labels
Food labeling errors have fast become both a costly and brand-damaging issue for food manufacturers. In fact, labeling issues are among the main reasons for food recalls in the first place.
Proto Labs Reaches Agreement to Acquire RAPID, Expands Services with Sheet Metal Fabrication
Proto Labs is acquiring the New Hampshire-based custom parts supplier specializing in quick-turn sheet metal fabrication and CNC machining.
ARMEX™: A Safe and Effective Cleaner for the Food and Beverage Industry
Specially formulated for media blasting applications, sodium bicarbonate or baking soda, is a non-destructive blasting media that won’t damage valuable machinery.
Environmentally-Friendly, Electric Solids Pump Launched by Selwood
The pump is ideal for a range of water and wastewater, oil and gas, and construction applications.
Engineering a Good Night's Sleep
Sleep deprivation is a large problem for all types of professionals. Leave it to a set of entrepreneurs to design a solution to help you get a good night's sleep. Utilizing Bluetooth and induction charging technology makes the SleepPhones® by AcousticSheep LLC an excellent choice to get a good sleep.
Tank Car Storage: Rarely Popular With Locals
Rail car storage is a perennial issue for rail companies, and the dilemma is significant for both the rail companies—financially and regarding public relations—and environmental groups who worry about the effects of stored tankers and other cars on wildlife and tourism.
A Meat-free America Simulation
For decades, many science community insiders have suggested that entirely eliminating animal food products from U.S. manufacturing, sales and consumption would have only a positive impact in terms of health and the environment. To test that theory, researchers from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) conducted a simulation exercise to illustrate the consequences of Americans going meat-free.
Build an Innovative Monarch Butterfly Tracking Device
The Monarch Butterfly Fund is offering a $50,000 cash prize to the individual or team that can conceptualize and develop an innovative tagging and tracking system.
DHL Plans $370m Expansion at Hong Kong Hub
As one of three global hubs for DHL, the expanded facility will handle more than 40 percent of the company’s total Asia Pacific shipment volumes.
Portable Solution for Multiprocess Welding
The 55-pound, portable multiprocess welder is capable of AC/DC TIG, MIG and stick welding.
Insects Still Being Considered Possible Food Source Despite "Ick" Factor
As the global population increases, so too does the need to find sustainable food and feed sources.
Ford Is Testing an Exoskeletal Device on the Assembly Floor
The non-powered vest is designed to offer protection and support against fatigue and injury by reducing the stress and strain of high-frequency, long-duration activities.
Lockheed Martin Wins USPS Package Sorting Contract
The first package processing system will be deployed at a USPS facility currently being built in Portland, Oregon.
Newly Developed Filters Use Nanoparticles to Prevent Slime Buildup
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science have a new way of making membranes that could address this problem. Their method allows them to add in a host of new abilities via functional nanoparticles that adhere to the surface of the mesh.
Safer Water Using UV Light
Inspired by an experience involving contaminated well water in her rural Kentucky hometown, Ph.D. student Natalie Hull is exploring the different wavelengths of ultraviolet radiation needed to kill dangerous drinking water pathogens.
Coal Export Terminal Wins a Round in Court
The $680 million Millennium terminal would ship coal from Montana, Wyoming and other states to Asia, and could boost U.S. coal exports by 40 percent.