Big push to recycle plastic

Cold extrusion is playing an ever greater part in recycling of waste plastic, and the Department for Business and Enterprise is sponsoring research into development of the machinery necessary for such work. Engineers at Bradford University have built a pilot plant and...

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Long Service Motors Tested After Re-Engineering

Specialist industrial motor manufacturer Solutions Engineering in Stoke on Trent is able to test the performance of its motors, having built a test station to its own specification based around a piezo electric torque transducer. It manufactures a range of...

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Testing Time For Business Jet

Development and qualification testing of three flap system actuators for the eagerly awaited new Falcon 7X business jet is being performed on a test rig designed and built by Comar Engineering in Wolverhampton and incorporating an innovative non-contact torque transducer. The whole...

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It’s Safer Than You Thought To Belt Up

Car seatbelts are now proven to be more reliable than previously thought thanks to a chance discovery by test rig builder Mindready Solutions in Belfast. When building a replacement rig for a global seatbelt manufacturer they used a highly sensitive transducer from...

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Ultrasound Helps Optimise Drive Designs

Available in other languages: A bespoke pump maker is using ultrasound waves to efficiently model drive torque and thus contain development costs to within predictable limits. Charles Austen Pumps has recently upgraded test facilities with Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) equipment...

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Sensor de ondas acústicas

Available in other languages: Charles Austen Pumps fabrica bombas diseñadas especialmente para ajustarse a los requerimientos particulares del cliente que no pueden ser satisfechas con unidades estándar. La naturaleza cíclica en la operación de muchas bombas tiende a inducir oscilaciones torsionales...

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