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hen 3D System’s founder, Chuck Hull, debuted the world’s first commercial 3D printer, the SLA-1, in 1987, people marvelled at its speed. To think, you could produce a solid functional part strong enough for machining or making a master pattern for injection and blow molding in 24 hours or less. Sure the parts were relatively small and the machine expensive, but the time saving was enough of an off-set to spark a multi-billion dollar industry and propel Hull’s fledgling firm into one of the world’s largest 3D printing companies.

Since then, resin-based stereo-lithography (SLA) has fallen somewhat in the additive manufacturing world. FDM, SLS, Polyjet and various metal-based processes have eclipsed SLA with stronger and more varied build materials as well as faster production times.

But in March, nearly 20 years later, two start-ups launched new 3D printers that may restore resin-based stereo-lithography to its former glory by making a quantum leap in build speed. Models that typically take hours or as much as a day to print currently, can be produced in under 10 minutes with these new processes, they claim.

The first out of the gate, Carbon3D rocked the TED conference in Vancouver in mid-March with its take on the DLP 3D printer. Similar in basic concept to a traditional SLA, typical DLP printers use a Digital Light Processor chip, rather than a laser, to project a light pattern of each model layer into a shallow dish of photosensitive resin. As the upside-down build platform rises up from the surface, the light cures resin trapped between a glass window at the bottom of the pool and the bottom edge of the model.

Unfortunately, the process requires the model to be pried from the glass window and the x-axis reset for each layer.

Carbon3D modifies the process by inserting a razor-thin layer of oxygen infused resin, which inhibits curing, between the model’s bottom edge and a gas-permeable plastic window. Dubbed Continuous Liquid Interface Production (CLIP), this process eliminates the mechanical separation and axis reset steps and allows the DLP to project a fluid animation of layer cross-sections that grows the part rather build it in discrete layers. The result, the company says, is a part that not only takes minutes to produce but is smoother and more mechanically consistent than traditional AM models.

Within a week of Carbon3D’s debut, an Australian firm, Gizmo 3D, boasted their 3D printer could best the American upstart in build speed. Also based on the DLP process, Gizmo 3D says its printer can produce an object 150mm x 80mm x 26mm in size, at a 50 micron resolution, in just 6 minutes. Instead of building from the bottom up, as with the Carbon3D printer, Gizmo 3D is a top-down printer. The DLP projector casts its steady stream of cross-sections down onto a large vat of resin while the build table gradually descends into the liquid.

At this point, both machines are at the beta stage and not yet ready for commercial release. However, when they do become generally available, it will put considerable market pressure on not only other stereo-lithographic 3D printers, but the whole spectrum of additive manufacturing machines. For industry, these hyper-speed continuous 3D printers herald the realization of true rapid manufacturing, in which tens or hundreds customized parts can be produced in the time it currently takes to make just one or a few. Given this new yardstick in speed, build quality and accuracy, the “old school” of 3D printing technology may struggle to keep pace and give way to the next age in additive manufacturing.

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obotics industry web site, Robotics Business Review (RBR), unveiled its fourth annual RBR50 list, the online publication’s line-up of the most notable public and private companies in the global robotics industry.

This year, three Canadian companies made the list, including relative new-comer, Clearpath Robotics. The Kitchener-based firm specializes in the design and manufacture of unmanned land and water vehicles for academic, industrial and military R&D applications.

In addition, St-Nicolas Quebec-based Robotiq, which designs and manufactures flexible electric robot grippers for robots in the manufacturing industry, kept its placement on this year’s listing.

Similarly, Kinova Robotics returned as well. The Boisbriand, Quebec-based company designs and manufactures robotics platforms and components but is best known for JACO, a six-axis robotic manipulator arm with a three-fingered hand for people with reduced upper body mobility.

Spanning 11 countries, RBR50 companies are judged based on their innovation, groundbreaking applications, commercial

Clearpath Robotics’ Grizzly, an all electric, 80 hp robotic utility vehicle designed for military, mining and agricultural research.

success and potential. The complete RBR50 listing is available on at the online publication’s website. www.roboticsbusinessreview.com/rbr50

UP FRONT Bombardier appoints new CEO In February, Bombardier announced the appointment of Alain Bellemare as president and CEO of the Montréal-based company. Former CEO, Pierre Beaudoin, became executive chairman of the board of directors, replacing Laurent Beaudoin, who retired after more than 50 years at the helm.

Prior to Bombardier, Bellemare served as president and CEO of UTC Propulsion & Aerospace Systems, leading Pratt & Whitney and UTC Aerospace Systems. During his tenure, his responsibilities included some of the largest programs in the company’s history: The integrated aerospace systems for the Boeing 787; Pratt & Whitney’s Geared TurboFan Engine; and the F-35 engine for the Joint Strike Fighter.

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aeronautical engineering at École Nationale Supérieure d’Ingénieurs en Construction Aéronautique (ENSICA) in Toulouse, France. www.bombardier.com

ATS Automation revenue jumps 40% in Q3 ATS Automation announced that the company’s 2015 third quarter revenues saw a 40 percent spike over the previous year largely due the acquisition of M+W Process Automation GmbH and ProFocus LLC (collectively Process Automation Solutions) in 2014. The acquired company added US$60.5 million in revenues to the company’s balance sheet.

Excluding the acquisition, third quarter revenues grew 6 percent year over year, the company said, reflecting higher order bookings in the second fiscal quarter and favourable foreign exchange rate changes.

Similarly, the company’s third quarter adjusted earnings were $27.2 million (11% margin), compared to adjusted earnings from operations of $20.5 million (12% margin) in the third quarter of fiscal 2014. www.atsautomation.com

Ballard inks US$80M+ deal with Volkswagen Ballard Power Systems announced that it has entered into a technology solutions transaction with Volkswagen Group for approximately US$80 million. Under the terms of the deal, Ballard will transfer the automotive-related portion of its fuel cell IP for US$50 million.

Ballard will retain a royalty-free license to the IP for bus and non-automotive applications as well as for certain limited pre-commercial purposes in automotive applications.

The deal also includes a two-year extension of the companies’ existing long-term engineering services agreement, worth an estimated C$30-50 million.

Ballard’s ongoing engineering services contract with Volkswagen Group involves the design and manufacture of next-generation fuel cell stacks for use in the demonstration car program. Ballard engineers are leading critical areas of fuel cell product design – including the membrane electrode assembly (MEA), plate and stack components – along with certain testing and integration work. www.ballard.com www.design-engineering.com

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DesignNews engineering students signal a promising future for gender balance in the profession, says Professor Susan McCahan (MIE), UofT’s new vice-provost, innovations in undergraduate education.

“Engineering has changed significantly from when I began at UofT several decades ago,” said McCahan, who was the University’s first female faculty member in mechanical engineering.

“It is increasingly recognized as a vibrant and innovative profession: One that encourages broad perspectives and collaboration to drive positive changes that improve our world.” www.engineering.utoronto.ca

Canadian hockey-playing robot learns to ski

Scanning electron microscope image of limpet teeth. (image: University of Portsmouth )

Engineers discover strongest natural material Researchers from the University of Portsmouth have discovered that limpet teeth – small structures on the aquatic snail’s tongue used to scrape algae off rocks – have the highest tensile strength of any biological material yet discovered. Up until now, spider silk held that title.

According to the research, recently published in Royal Society journal Interface, the limpet tooth samples tested displayed tensile strength ranging from 3.0 to 6.5 GPa, with an elastic modulus (stiffness) of 120 ± 30 GPa. By comparison, the tensile strength and elastic modulus of spider silk typically ranges up to 4.5 and 10 GPa, respectively. In addition, the study found that the tooth material retained its strength properties independent of the sample size.

On par with some of the most durable man-made fibres, the limpet tooth owes its unique strength to its composite structure.

The teeth are composed of chitin, a biological polymer, reinforced by a large number of nanofibres composed of the mineral goethite. The small diameter of the goethite fibres, measuring approximately 20 nanometers across, is what makes the tooth resistant to the introduction of structural flaws, as it gets larger.

Mimicking the tooth’s structure, the researchers say, could lead to stronger and lighter composite materials. www.port.ac.uk

UofT engineering enrolls record number of female students The University of Toronto announced that the percentage of first-year students in it’s engineering programs has surpassed 30 per cent this year, a record for the university and a higher number than all other Ontario universities. The university says female undergraduate enrollment is up from 21.3 per cent six years ago, largely due to its targeted recruitment efforts. In addition, entrance grade averages for first-year students reached a record 92.4 per cent this year.

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A hockey-playing robot named Jennifer developed at the University of Manitoba is learning to hit the slopes as part of the university’s application for the 2015 DARwIn-OP Humanoid Application Challenge in Seattle this May. Built by students in the Autonomous Agents Laboratory, the doll-sized robot won an international competition in 2012 for its ability to skate and play hockey. Named after Canadian three-time Olympic gold medal hockey player, Jennifer Botterill, the robot has now been taught to ski both cross-country and downhill.

“The cross-country skiing gait is based on the linear inverted pendulum model and is inspired by walking and ice skating gaits developed for the DARwIn-OP robot,” says John Anderson, co-director of the U of M lab.

“We have only begun studying alpine skiing, but have demonstrated rudimentary braking and arcing using simple control of the skis’ edges,” adds Jacky Baltes, the lab’s other co-director.

“Improving the control of the alpine skiing is our primary focus, with improving the cross-country gait and allowing the robot to dynamically switch from cross-country to alpine skiing when it detects a change in inclination corresponding to a hill.”

The Autonomous Agents Laboratory is one of the research laboratories within the Faculty of Science, in the department of computer science at the University of Manitoba. The lab’s goal is the improvement of technology related to robots’ hardware and software as well as the development of applications employing the technology. www.umanitoba.ca www.design-engineering.com

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“We developed the 3Dconnexion CadMouse because CAD users asked us to,” says Antonio Pascucci, VP of products at 3Dconnexion. “We took the time to understand what they needed before developing a combination of smart hardware and software features.”

The most distinctive of those is the CadMouse’s dedicated middle mouse button. Most 3D applications, including CAD, facilitate model orientation (i.e. rotate/ pan) by clicking and holding the rotating scroll wheel.

Providing a separate, full-sized button, the company says, relieves

the discomfort of holding down this hard, rounded surface thousands of times per day.

To zoom in and out of models or drawings, the CadMouse provides two thumb buttons in addition to what the company calls a “Smart Scroll Wheel” that adapts its zooming behavior depending on the active application. For traditionalist, the clickable wheel also incorporates concave “finger-friendly” contours.

Just behind the scroll wheel sits a smaller gesture/ radial menu button, which opens a context sensitive radial menu. Once clicked, moving the cursor left, right, up or down activates a configurable, application-specific command.

Under the hood, the CadMouse features a highresolution tracking system (8200dpi) with a poll rate of up to 1000Hz (responsiveness of 1 millisecond), the company says. In addition, the mouse’s “feet” are made from PTFE, a material with one of the lowest coefficients of friction against any surface.

At launch, 3Dconnexion says the CadMouse will retail for US$99 and have full feature support on MS Windows 8, 7 and Vista. www.3dconnexion.com

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The Future of

MCAD? SolidWorks founders look to revolutionize mechanical CAD again with browser-based modeler, OnShape.

By Ralph Grabowski

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round the year 2000, the Internet bubble was getting seriously big. Established CAD vendors looked for ways to show they were hip to the new thing. PTC integrated a web browser into Pro/E and Autodesk came out with a lean file format, DWF, so that drawings would be transmitted in less time over slow connections.

Meanwhile, an unknown CAD company caught the attention of Microsoft, who was looking for software to promote its upcoming Windows 2000 launch. That company, Alibre, had figured out how to run MCAD software on servers, with the results appearing on remote desktop computers.

The problem, however, was that most of us still had dial-up modems, and so this Internet-based CAD system didn’t catch on.

Alibre was rewritten as a traditional program and then was purchased by Geomagic and 3D Systems. Today, it still runs from the desktop.

Fast forward a dozen years, and Internetbased CAD is busting out all over again. A fresh round of financing and advances in web programming has encouraged all kinds of companies (e.g. sunglass.io, ShapeSmith and TinkerCAD) to feverishly write cloudbased CAD programs and viewers that run in today’s heavy-duty web browsers.

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recognizable names like SolidWorks founder and CEO Jon Hirschtick and former CEO John McEleney, OnShape’s leadership includes original SolidWorks developer and former VP of R&D, Dave Corcoran, as well as SolidWorks co-founder and former VP of new product concepts, Scott Harris. In total, eight former SolidWorks employees and managers helped start the company, which has since grown to 50 employees.

Back when SolidWorks was launched in 1995, it surprised the industry by running only on Windows. This was at the time when serious CAD ran on Unix, like Pro/E, or on DOS, like AutoCAD. CAD on Windows was thought to perhaps have some potential, just as today CAD on servers is considered “interesting.”

The OnShape guys are determined to rewrite MCAD for the post-Windows age.

As such, it has to run on any kind of hardware and operating system, access files from a central repository, allow simultaneous editing by many users, and throw away difficult aspects, such as saving, backing up, forking and revising models.

In short, OnShape wants something that functioned like SolidWorks but works like Google Docs. After nearly three years of development, the new software is ready to be unveiled.

Using OnShape In January, the folks at OnShape gave me access to the beta program so I could experienced the software for myself. The MCAD program is both a history-based parametric modeler and a direct modeler/editor.

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Figure 1: OnShape collaborating in a Mac Web browser and on an iPhone at the same time.

— Linux, OS X, Windows. However, due that archives the current state of the model. to the small screen sizes of Android and At this early stage in development, the iOS devices, the company is writing native number and variety of OnShape comOnShape apps for these two platforms (see mands is basic. The reason is that, when figure 1). writing a brand-new Google Docs-like I accessed the program by going to the cad.onshape.com site and found that files loaded The OnShape guys are determined to fairly quickly, but that editing and making view changes ran rewrite MCAD for the post-Windows age. more slowly. I tested OnShape In short, OnShape wants something that on two Windows computers: functioned like Solidworks but works like One a quad-core 3.1GHz desktop and the other a dual-core Google Docs.

2.7GHz machine. Even though the speeds were similar, the quad-core computer worked significantly CAD system, there is a great deal of work faster than the dual-core, so it appears that at the beginning to write the file and colcores matter. Opening files that need to be laboration portions that underpin the translated occurred nearly as quickly as web-based program. opening native files.

As a result, collaborating on a model Model files are not stored locally, but involves emailing a URL; anyone receiving on servers. At this point, OnShape operates it gets full access to the program and the server farms located on the West and East model. Parts can be edited simultaneously, coasts of the United States, Ireland and down to the feature level. The program supAsia. To keep everything together, the ports forking to create variations of models, model and all of its support files are stored as well as merging to bring multiple versions in a single container file. There is no Save together again. To keep track of things, vercommand so that we don’t need to think sions, forks and merges are displayed about saving or backing up drawings. graphically (see Figure 2).

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16 CADReport photographs. Indeed, there can be more than one Assembly tab, each with a different collection of parts. The 2D drafting portion of the program was not, unfortunately, ready for me to test.

Figure 2: Version tracking is shown graphically in OnShape.

Price and Availability The base price of OnShape is free. This includes all the functions and is not limited by time. The catch is, however, that all our models are available to everyone else. I suppose this is one way to quickly build up a parts warehouse. To make models private, you need to pony up $100 per month per user.

OnShape Beta is available now at cad.onshape.com. At some point in the future, the application will achieve Release 1.0 status. In the meantime, the company plans to keep adding functions, while they look for partners to provide ancillary operations like FEA and CAM. OnShape is another attempt to create a CAD system that runs well over the Internet. This has its advantages, such as having no program to install, accessing the program and models from anywhere by one or many users, and working with most operating systems. But because it relies on the Internet, we cannot use it off-line, so it could suffer from latency (delays

single line of icons, a few having flyouts. The icons displayed depend on the modeling mode — parts, assemblies or sketches.

Figure 3 shows the commands available for creating and editing parts next to the word “Sketch.”

Pause the cursor over an icon to get a paragraph of help text. Clicking the icon displays a docked dialog box with the command’s options. More than one user can work in this dialog box at the same time — whoever clicks the green checkmark last, wins. In fact, I could sign in twice into my own account on two different computers and work on the same model that way.

As an alternative to icons, users can enter shortcuts on the keyboard, such as Shift+E to extrude or D to apply dimensions. Right-clicking a part displays a shortcut menu with display commands, such as Hide Other Parts.

Models are displayed in wireframe, hidden, shaded and other visual styles in orthographic or perspective viewpoints, Figure 3: History tree in OnShape (at left), editing a fillet (dialog box next door), help tip (at center) as well as three forms of isometric view. and view cube (at right). Tabs along the bottom hold parts, assemblies and support files.

A viewcube rotates the model in steps.

Zoom, pan and rotate are available from the middle mouse button, between our browsers and their servers), and the software is naturally. The program does not, however, have specific touch always updated, whether we want it or not. controls; just the few that work with all programs in Windows 8.

The company designed their new program to be attractive The pancake button (three horizontal lines) lets me select to existing SolidWorks users, yet not be unfamiliar to users of units, specify properties, rename the model and print. Printing similar programs, like Inventor or Solid Edge. Now it’s up to is rudimentary at this early stage, and in fact did not work for those users to figure out if working on the web is preferable to me. I got a print preview in a separate browser tab, but then my the desktop. laser printer spat out a blank sheet.

The team behind this software is smart, and has spent much I really liked the tabs along the bottom of the OnShape win- time thinking about how an MCAD system should operate in dow. They segregate the open drawing into different aspects. 2015 and beyond. They are taking as much a gamble with the In separate tabs, I can open parts (this is known as the “Part web as they did twenty years ago with Windows 95.

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s with any tool, there are times when engineering analysis software has its appropriate and inappropriate applications. Used properly, FEA and CFD can provide a level of insight unavailable by any other method, including physical testing many times. Not only can it show when and where a design will fail but also why and even suggest non-intuitive ways to address a design problem. Using it improperly, however, can lead to confusion, doubt and worst of all, a missed opportunity. The following then are my top five best ways to use CFD and FEA analysis.

Failure Analysis: Identifying probably or likely root cause analysis (RCA) Deterministic assessment of incremental (FEA) stress of an applied load assuming deterministic loads: Simulation is great at telling you how close you are to meeting your design spec or giving insight into how you got to that stress because of a visual load path or where vorticity is causing extra pressure drop.

“A/B” testing: With analysis software, you can simulate a range of geometries or boundary conditions and determine how they rank relative to each other. This is typically called a qualitative study or analysis. Example: You simulate 10 design variations and you know what is the best and worst. You also know that #2 is better than #5 and #5 is better than all of 7-10, but you can’t quantitatively say that any of them will pass QA or QC spec.

Design Simulation: This is where you take a design (ex: +/- 10% of dimension or load) or a probabilistic load (+/- 1s or 2s) one or more inputs (material property, geometry, boundary condition, etc) and run a full or reduced design of experiments (DoE). This can yield some helpful and many times interesting outcomes,

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Some of the most helpful and often times non-obvious design feedback with these analyses comes from finding out what input parameters don’t matter. For example, you might find that you can loosen up tolerances, remove material, use a lower grade material or use lower cost up and downstream to interface with your design.

Bidirectional, parametric simulation is the de facto standard of design-simulation and has been for at least 20 years, if not longer. There are many tools on the market that allow simple and complex DoE depending on the level of insight you want and need.

Stage-gate product development (PD): For PD, a well-placed work breakdown structure (WBS) should allow for design changes to be implemented back into the project before final and/or costly design or manufacturing decisions are made.

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Augmented reality tech by B.C.’s NGRAIN takes CMMS to the next level at Lockheed Martin.

By Treena Hein

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f you were visiting the fighter aircraft hangers of the past, you would see something quite different than you would today.

Technicians and maintenance crews would be making copious notes on paper about surface damage and other maintenance aspects of active aircraft. Repair was, no doubt, a long, tedious and drawn-out process.

Today, you would see a different picture. Thanks to the advent of mobile devices, new trends like wearables and augmented reality are playing a larger role in aerospace manufacturing and maintenance. Fighter jet maintenance crews currently employ augmented reality (AR) software to view – and to interact with – 3D models of the equipment they are working on.

For example, Lockheed Martin currently uses an interactive 3D AR platform developed by Vancouver-based software firm NGRAIN, to inspect F-35 and F-22 fighter jets. The technology platform cuts both repair times and minimizes error, critical because even the tiniest bit of surface damage to a stealth fighter like the F-35 can make it detectable by enemy radar.

In addition, new data from each technician is shared on the platform, a system that has the ability to analyze and integrate information from each plane in order to do things like highlight where and when maintenance issues may occur in the future.

Beyond aerospace companies like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and CAE, NGRAIN says its tech platform is being adopted in every sector, from energy, manufacturing and healthcare to U.S. and Canadian government agencies and universities.

“In short, our customers use our technology to equip their mobile workers with access to the right data at the right time on the right device,” says Director of Product Management Barry Po. “We provide real-time assistance and allow them to access all the information they need to do their jobs to the fullest extent possible.”

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complex objects in the environment in real-time, digitally capturing the worker’s surroundings so they can be analyzed and augmented with real-time feedback.

Simulated real-time updates on factors like temperature, pressure and other indicators are available, including dynamically-changing parts colouring. The technology allows service crews to make better decisions on-the-spot, maximize uptime and eliminate costly mistakes. It all means that actions that used to take days can be finished in a matter of hours.

“NGRAIN has its origins as a company that provided interactive 3D software to support industrial training programs,” Po explains. “We spent almost fifteen years working with customers who face really tough industrial problems. As time passed, it was only natural for us to look at how new technologies – like tablets, wearables, and things like VR and the ‘Internet of Things’ – could transform the way people work and do business.”

But when the NGRAIN team members looked at how these new technologies could be integrated to solve thorny industry problems, they realized that they would need to start from scratch.

“The conventional historic way of visualizing things in a 3D environment is to use polygonal graphics,” Po says. “They’ve been used over the last few decades because they’ve worked well enough for the applications that existed and because they also don’t take much computing power. But polygons only allow you to visualize the surface of objects and can’t provide a true 3D experience.”

To visualize what’s inside assemblies in full detail and harness that information, NGRAIN had to create building blocks that were entirely new. Enter the voxel, a 3D pixel akin to digital grain of sand. Together, voxels permit direct access to attributes for every point in space.

“Just like a sand castle is built from countless grains of sand, we build 3D objects using billions of discrete points,” explains Po. “The voxels solve problems that could never be solved with polygons, and they can do this without the need for huge computing power. Any reasonable level of computing power will do. So it’s very exciting that we’ve developed technology that takes www.design-engineering.com

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Using NGRAIN Iris, technicians can point their mobile devices at equipment in the field (above) to overlay digital information, or interact with 3D content virtually (right). The system provides an augmented reality perspective in which users can access maintenance data, including part specifications, inventory information, live data feeds, images and videos.

advantage of the convergence of immersive 3D, mobile hardware and big data to address industrial problems that have been around for a long time.”

Industrial Smart Glasses Like other computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS), NGRAIN’s platforms enable workers in the field to access operational intelligence, predictive analytics and other kinds of enterprise ‘big data’. But NGRAIN goes beyond standard CMMS with the capacity to link 3D content to maintenance data. This is currently accomplished using tablets, but some NGRAIN customers are also actively experimenting with smart glasses.

“At this point, when you wear a pair of smart glasses driven by our software, you can get live information and 3D graphics precisely overlaid right on top of whatever it is you’re working on,” Po says. “So, data such as current state, stock levels, temperature, oil analysis and so on is all available at a glance. Stepby-step instructions and animated equipment procedures indicate what part you need to work on next, how to do it and even whether you’re doing it right.”

While Po acknowledges that tablets are great tools, he notes that as smart glasses develop, they’ll be able to solve problems that can’t be solved or solved easily with a different device.

However, the best way to use smart glasses in an industrial setting is still being worked out.

“While you’re wearing them, you can make annotations on a tablet, but we’ve also been experimenting with some partners on voice input, although it becomes tricky in a noisy environ-

ment,” Po says. “I also see a lot of potential in using gesture-based interfaces in conjunction with smart glasses – it may become much more common than people would believe.”

He adds that what finally ‘wins out’ in industry may be a combination of several interfaces. For example, as workers look at assets through their smart glasses, they might select, move things around or make notes using a finger in the air front of them, and then use speech recognition to tell the system to save their work or pause things if interrupted.

Crunching the 3D Data As primarily a software company, NGRAIN’s challenges have always been centered around creating a platform that can work with and adapt to new form factors and limited capability.

“Originally, the limitations on computing power made it very difficult to create a compelling augmented reality experience,” Po relates. “We needed to render complex 3D content in real-time while using computer vision to track and recognize objects in the surrounding environment while still enabling users to call up data on-demand. That’s a tall order using a great deal of computing power, but we needed to be able to do it on the limited capability of mobile tech. So we spent a lot of time

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The 3D model files of the Lockheed Martin F-35, for example, were enormous, impossible to fit on a tablet, but NGRAIN team members found a way to reduce the size but keep all the detail.

The advent of smart glasses, however, has taken the challenges of mobile devices – limited computational power and poor battery life – to a new level for NGRAIN. The company first started working on integrating its platform with smart glasses about two years ago.

“The good news is that these devices are improving really fast,” says Po. “For example, we have a very strong working relationship with Epson, who manufactures the Moverio series of smart glasses. Beyond aerospace, NGRAIN says its platform is being adopted in many industrial Within the span of a year, they released a second- settings, from energy, manufacturing and healthcare to U.S. and Canadian government generation product that is 40 per cent lighter.” agencies and universities.

Po notes that it’s far from clear which wearable designs are best and what’s going to win out in different applications. even more incredible things – like automatically recognizing “But we’ve been able to take that leap and build some pretty and surfacing relevant information about objects just by the compelling experiences with smart glasses because we were able wearer looking at them. We’re on the path to building an expeto draw on our experiences building those for mobile devices,” rience where a field specialist will be able to put on a pair of he says. “We know that the hardware is only going to keep glasses, switch them on and get straight to work.”

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IdeaGenerator Automation Graphic Terminals Rockwell Automation introduced its PanelView 800 family of graphic terminals with reduced boot-up time.

The terminals — available in 4-, 7- and 10-inch display sizes — feature an 800 MHz processor, up to 256 MB of flash and dynamic memory to reduce boot-up time, making it two times faster than the previous PanelView Component terminal. The terminals also offer improved touch-screen responsiveness and high-resolution screens, with LED backlights, that display up to 65,536 colors. Ports include built-in Ethernet, serial communications (RS232, RS422 and RS485), USB and microSD. The terminals are certified for Class 1, Division 2 hazardous locations. www.rockwellautomation.com

Panel Swing Arm B&R Automation introduced a line of swing arm systems with enclosed panels featuring IP65 protection. The multi-touch widescreen panels are available in sizes ranging from 18.5 to 24 inches

with either HD ready or full HD resolution.

The panels are connected using standard cables run through the swing arm shaft. The swing arm can be equipped with buttons, selector switches, key switches and an integrated E-stop button as needed. An integrated RFID reader allows individual access rights to be assigned.

Displays from the company’s automation panel series are available in nine different swing arm models and can be equipped with additional switching elements as needed. www.br-automation.com

Industrial Server Beckhoff Automation unveiled its C6670 industrial server, a machine controller equipped with 12, 24 or 36 processor cores, and memory from 64 GB up to 2 TB. In addition to machine control functions – PLC, motion, robotics and CNC – the server supports further functions such as advanced measurement technology, condition monitoring and visualization. With TwinCAT 3.1, the company says it is possible to utilize all available processor cores by distributing

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MODBUS Interface Module AMETEK Solartron Metrology introduced its MODBUS Interface Module (MODIM), which provides a gateway between MODBUS PLCs and Solartron Metrology’s Orbit3 Digital Measurement System. The Orbit3 system is a measuring system that can interface with any sensor with an analogue output, in addition to Solartron Metrology linear measurement sensors. The system can provide temperature, pressure, force, rotary measurement and linear displacement variables to a PLC through one MODBUS communications interface. The MODIM allows users to access sensor networks with varying interfaces through a set of MODBUS parameters using a single device. End users can connect to all Solartron gauging, displacement and non-contact sensors as well as third-party sensors. www.solartronmetrology.com

Industrial Cellular Router Siemens unveiled its Ruggedcom RX1400, a multiprotocol router that combines Ethernet switching, routing, VPN and firewall functionality with various WAN connectivity options. The device operates continuously within a -40°C to +85°C temperature range using a fanless design, and is equipped with a rugged metal housing that supports DIN rail, panel or rack mounting.

Both IEC61850-3 and IEEE 1613 Class 2 compliant, the router supports commercial 4G (LTE) networks but is able to rollback to 2G and 3G wireless connectivity, if necessary. In addition it also has a dual SIM card slot and can be used with two optional small form factor pluggable fiber optic transceivers (SFPs). Integrated GNSS (GPS/GLONASS) functionality allows the device to report its location. www.siemens.com

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26 IdeaGenerator Motion Control Linear Actuator Oriental Motor USA rolled out its DRLII Series, the company’s latest generation linear actuator and driver package. The unit includes a built-in controller (stored data) driver or pulse input driver, as standard, with knob or electromagnetic brake options, all with or without guide.

The series features improved accuracy and maximum speed specifications (frame size 28mm & 60mm) and a lead screw pitch of 8mm (frame size 42mm) for the ground and rolled screw types. The DRLII Series is both a linear actuator and networking product solution that is part of FLEX, Oriental Motor’s Industrial Network Communications product line. www.orientalmotor.com

Positioning Stage Bell-Everman unveiled its ServoSpline positioning stage that provides backlash-free motion and simplified control.

The stage is an extension of a classic rack-and-pinion design that provides simple motion commands and positions the stage in the x and y axes by independently driving the two splines. This positioning stage can serve in a wide variety of machines requiring easily-implemented motion stages. Applications include 3D printers, automated assembly, dispensing, engraving, additive manufacturing, biomedical titer plate indexing and pipetting for diagnostic equipment. www.bell-everman.com

Servo Gripper SCHUNK released its EGL gripper, featuring on-board power and control electronics. The component is powered by 24VDC and can communicate by Profibus-DP or CAN-bus. There is an electric brake, which allows for position maintenance and a pseudo absolute encoder function. The EGL weighs 1.8 kg, but features a stroke of 49mm per jaw and can generate up to 600N of grip force, which allows it to grip work pieces weighing 3 kg. www.schunk.com

Power Transmission Chain Monitoring System Chain manufacturer iwis Drive Systems unveiled its patented CCM (Chain Condition Monitoring) system, which measures the wear elongation of chains in use. The system can be used independently of chain speed. Depending on the chain size, possible chain speeds range from 0.02 m/s to over 15 m/s. The device has protection class IP67 and can be used under normal environmental conditions and at temperatures from 0 to 60°C. Operating state and wear status are indicated by LEDs and readings can be transmitted to a computer through USB and viewed with a special interface. Because measurement is contactless, the chain drive is not affected in any way; no additional deflection pulleys or supports are needed. www.iwis.de/ccm-en March/April | 2015

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IdeaGenerator 27 Hygienic Gearbox Neugart USA unveiled its hygienic HLAE070, 090 and 110 gearbox series that are certified to 3-A Sanitary Standards. All HLAE gearboxes are also certified to IP69K and are designed for the pharmaceutical and food processing industries. For example, the HLAE series features an electro-polished surface for ease of disinfection and washdown routines. In addition to meeting 3-A standards, only FDA-certified materials and food-safe lubricants in compliance with NSF are used within the gearbox. The HLAE highperformance hygienic gearbox offers full-load efficiency above 97%, high stiffness, low backlash and a range of output torques. www.neugartusa.com

Weldable Shaft Collars Stafford Manufacturing introduced a line of weldable shaft collars and couplings that are now offered in ANSI 1018 steel and weldable stainless steel. Available in one-, two-piece and hinged styles, the shaft collars and flange mounts come in 1/4- to 6-inch bore sizes and shaft couplings are offered in 1/4- to 2-inch bore sizes. Typical applications include special machinery, conveyors and packaging equipment to facilitate maintenance, repairs and system uptime. www.staffordmfg.com

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Electrical Industrial Connector HARTING launched its Han Ex industrial connector portfolio for explosion proof applications with a series of five size 3A sets, each comprised of a hood, housing and high pin count insert. This first Han Ex rollout is for use exclusively in intrinsically safe circuits of categories “ia”, “ib” and “ic” of explosion protection method “Ex i”, and is suitable for Zones 0, 1 and 2 for gas and Zones 20, 21 and 22 for dust. The “Ex i” protection method assures intrinsically safe electrical circuitry that is limited for maximum voltage, current, capacity and inductance. HARTING’s Han Ex sets are available with 4, 7, 8 or 12 contacts. There are three variants with crimp termination and two with HARTING’s proprietary Han-Quick Lock termination technology. Other variants are available on request. www.harting.ca

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SIL Relays Weidmuller announced that its SAFESERIES SIL relays now feature cULus approvals. The relays include single and dual channel DIN-rail mounted modules suitable for switching safety related circuits up to SIL3 level as per IEC61508. The relays accept 24VDC safety inputs and offer a monitoring circuit option with input voltages from 24 to 230VAC/DC. Single-channel models operate in the de-energize-to-safe mode. A two-channel model is designed for either energize-to-safe or de-energize-to-safe mode. A second two-channel module features a SIL3 fuel cut-off relay. All relay modules are 22mm wide with housings that feature pluggable field connectors, front status indication and in most models, an accessible fuse. The ambient temperature range is -25˚C to +50˚C. www.weidmuller.com

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28 IdeaGenerator HVAC Drive Yaskawa America released its Z1000U HVAC Matrix drive, a modified version of its standard Z1000 drive to provide low harmonic distortion.

The company’s matrix technology employs 9 bi-directional switches arranged in a matrix to convert a three-phase AC input voltage directly into a three-phase AC output voltage. According to the company, Matrix technology reduces total harmonic distortion levels to less than the IEEE compliance standard of 5%, without the need for reactors and filters. Additionally, reduced distortion improves displacement power factor to 0.98 through the entire load and speed range, the company says. The Z1000U is available in NEMA 1 models include ratings of 1 to 100 hp (208V) and 7.5 to 350 hp (480V). www.yaskawa.com

Sensors Proximity Sensors Eaton released its E57 series inductive proximity sensors, which feature a stainless steel body, shock resistant front caps, impact absorbing potting compound and noise immunity to meet the needs of nearly any industrial application. The series is available in

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standard configurations that meet IP 67 and 69K ratings and feature a range of common diameter options including 12, 18 and 30mm. The E57P Performance Series operates at voltages from 10 to 48VDC and from -40 to 70˚C. For general-purpose applications, the E57G Series have been tested and verified to provide reliable sensing in applications with operating voltages from 10 to 30VDC and temperature ranges from -25 to 70˚C. www.eaton.com

Position Transmitters Festo Canada introduced its SDAT-MHS series, a line of programmable analog feedback position sensors designed to pair with the company’s T-slot pneumatic drives.

Each transmitter emits a pathproportional output signal. The series is available with sensing ranges of 50, 80, 100, 125 and 160mm. The component includes both 4-20 mA analog output and an IO-Link operating mode. The switching output can be programmed by means of a “teach” button while the IO-Link mode can be programmed using a GUI. www.festo.ca

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IdeaGenerator 29 Rotary Encoders Leine & Linde announced that its XHI 801 and XHI 803 rotary encoders now offer Optolink to transmit encoder position data up to 1500 meters using fiber optics.

Because data is transmitted over optical fiber, the signal is not affected by electromagnetic disturbances. Optolink is provided in addition to the standard encoder outputs. This allows the standard output to interface with a local control system. The optical channel can then be used for long distance transmission to a remote facility or for safety systems. To convert the optical signal back into a protocol accepted by the controller, the company provides an Optolink receiver, which converts the signal back into standard electrical encoder interfaces like HTL or RS-422. www.heidenhain.com

Linear Potentiometer Alliance Sensors Group has expanded its sensor product offering by adding resistive technology to its portfolio of linear position products. The LP-22 series of linear potentiometers range from 25 to 300mm (1-12 inches) and feature self-aligning swivel rod eyes on both ends. Environmentally sealed to IEC IP-64, the sensors demonstrate linearity better than 0.10%, with an operating temperature of -40 to 150°C. The sensors’ 22mm OD anodized aluminum housing permits the LP-22 to withstand shocks up to 50g single hit and vibration to 20g. Depending on range, LP-22 series potentiometers are powered with a maximum input of between 12 and 36VDC at 12 mA or less, with output resistance between 1 and 5 kilohms. www.alliancesensors.com

Linear Encoder RSF Elektronik has developed the smallest full sealed linear encoder for motion feedback available in the marketplace, the company says. The MSA 170 has a scale cross section of 14mm x 10mm and contains a tiny glass scale to carry the measuring graduation. The encoder features a graduation of 20 micron and a scanning carriage that operates on the principle of reflected light. The glass scale is also available with one, multiple or distance-coded reference marks that are bi-directionally repeatable to one count of the final resolution. The encoder electronics are available with either 1 Volt Peak-to-Peak or digital TTL output signals with a resolution to 0.1 micron. The maximum measuring length is 520mm and accuracy grades of + 5 micron or +3 micron are available. www.heidenhain.com www.design-engineering.com March/April | 2015

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Lending a HAND The JACO2 robotic arm, by Quebec’s Kinova Robotics, helps wheelchair-bound attain new levels of independence.

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or those disabled by a birth defect, trauma or a degenerative disease, performing the most mundane of tasks is a struggle.

Most rely on caregivers or – as in the case of 17-year-old Laura Bairett who is confined to a wheelchair by spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) – her service dog Darcy.

Today, however, a growing number people with reduced upper body mobility benefit from personal robotic aids that open up a level of self-sufficiency previously unimaginable. In Laura’s case, that aid comes from a plug-and-play robotic arm for wheelchair bound people called the JACO2, designed by Boisbriand, Quebecbased Kinova Robotics.

An outgrowth of the original JACO robotic arm released in 2010, the Canadian-built arm now helps Bairett perform more than 200 common actions Darcy can’t do.

“I can switch on a light switch with JACO,” she says. “I use it for hygiene care like brushing my hair, cooking, carrying things and shopping. I’m able to get very heavy objects off racks and shelves that I otherwise would not be able to get. JACO has had a magnificent impact on my life.”

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wheelchair, Kinova Robotics designed its arm “from scratch,” says Chief Business Development Officer Francois Boucher. Most notable among its features, he says, is a mug-sized process controller located between the mounting and the arm’s all important first joint. Users are able to grasp books, cups, even single sheets of paper that have fallen to the floor using a two or three finger grip that can move 360 degrees at the wrist – with wrist and grip revolving at the end of the six-axis manipulator arm.

The key to JACO2’s success are the six degrees of movement and “on-the-fly” programming that allows users to speed up repetitive tasks. These are supported by inverse kinematics at the core of the controls: Three translation modes govern the arm’s left/right, front/back, up/down motions providing six basic movements along the x, y and z axes.

The finger mode, meantime, simultaneously opens or closes the JACO’s two or three fingers, while the wrist mode orients the fingers in a lateral or vertical orientation and provides that 360 degrees of wrist rotation.

It all adds up to movements so intuitive, says Boucher, “that a child of five can grip a bottle of soda pop, pour it into a glass and drink from it within minutes.” Slip rings, notably at JACO2’s sixth joint actuator, avoid the “physical constraints” other robotic www.design-engineering.com

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At 5kg, the arm is also one of the lightest robotic manipulators in its category, something Bouchard attributes to the arm’s carbon fibre structure. Its light weight, in turn, preserves wheelchair balance and takes the burden off caregivers who must detach JACO2 from the wheel chair.

Initial programming is done at the factory in Boisbriand, after which the user programs the robot’s work modes to meet the more specific activities that must be performed in a day.

Once they’re familiar with what the robot can accomplish, users can relegate less frequently used functions to a secondary B list, Boucher explains, reserving more important functions, such as moving backwards and forwards, to a primary A list of functions.

“For example, rotating the wrist along the left axis you might do less often, other than for drinking,” he says. “So you can move that to List B.” Boucher acknowledges that JACO2, in its present form, isn’t suited for tasks within a manufacturing setting. “It could, but we’re missing a lot of the primary specs that people in manufacturing are looking for, such as speed and precision. It is still at the research level for now.”

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ever, from experimenting with the JACO arm to manipulate positional and rotational tracking equipment. For now, Boucher says the company will continue to focus on disability assistance applications, as there are few suitable options on the market.

“All robotics used for disability are either industrial machines attached to wheelchairs which are clunky and use a lot of power,” he explains, “or they are things built by college students out of spare lamp parts. They’re better than nothing, but they’re not professional or designed with JACO’s strength and flexibility.”

That strength is not limitless, though, and the flexibility of the fingers is also a limitation, Boucher concedes. The JACO2’s main points of weakness are its fingers “which do an adequate job, but are less protected and more breakable than the arm.”

Using the JACO’s arms, however, users can slide large or heavy objects towards them, such as a large laptop, but lifting them is more difficult “because the fingers are made of a softer, more flexible material,” Boucher says.

Waterproof in the event of spills or inclement weather the arm requires annual maintenance more to address “noisiness” than component malfunction, Boucher adds. At an average cost of CAD$35,000 and a two-year warranty, the JACO series has been sold to individuals and companies in more than 28 countries, including Europe and the U.S. DE www.kinovarobotics.com

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FluidPower 33 Contents 34 Fluid Power News

Festo celebrates 40 years in Canada

38 Shoptalk

Excessive margins of safety fuel “fluid power is inefficient” misconception

42 Fluid Power Roundtable ‘15

Canada’s fluid power leaders discuss Industry 4.0, market conditions and the future of the industry

46 Robotics

MapleSim helps design humanoid robot that can walk, jump and hop

48 CFPA Corner

Combining hydraulics with variablespeed electric drives pays off in energy savings and performance

50 Fluid Power: Hydraulics

Fluid Power & Controls BUYERS’ GUIDE

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Shorter stroke lengths make LVDT linear position sensors ideal for hydraulic cylinder applications

52 Fluid Power Showcase

The latest in hydraulic and pneumatic product technology

54 Fluid Power Product Index 55 Fluid Power Product Listings 64 Fluid Power Supplier Listings

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FluidPower: News Parker unveils airbrake system for 1,000 mph supersonic car Engineers working on the BLOODHOUND Supersonic Car (SSC) and motion control experts at Parker Hannifin unveiled a closer look at the vehicle’s airbrake system. The land speed record contender will house three power plants – a Rolls-Royce EJ200 jet; a cluster of Nammo hybrid rockets; and a 550 bhp Supercharged V8 Jaguar engine. Between them they will generate 135,000 thrust hp, the equivalent to 180 F1 cars, to propel the SCC to its target speed of 1,000 mph.

While the focus is on reaching dizzying speeds, braking will prove just as critical. To slow the BLOODHOUND from 800mph and below, driver Andy Green will press a button on his 3D printed titanium steering wheel to operate the twin Parker linear actuators (cylinders). These cylinders will push the airbrake doors open into the airflow, carrying a load of five tonnes per door and increasing the drag on the car – slowing it at 3G deceleration, equal to losing 60mph per second.

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In total, Parker is supplying advanced equipment to operate BLOODHOUND’s airbrake doors, store backup hydraulic power and assist vehicle stability. This includes cylinders, manifold blocks and winglet controls. Parker is also supplying two composite piston accumulators – an emerging technology not yet widely available in the general marketplace.

BLOODHOUND SSC is currently being assembled at the BLOODHOUND Technical Centre in Bristol, UK. It is on schedule for roll out summer 2015. The Team will then deploy to South Africa to begin high speed testing with the target of reaching 800 mph (1,287 km/h) and return in 2016 with the aim of reaching 1,000 mph (1,609 km/h).

After 37 years at Motion Industries, Chairman Bill Stevens announced his plans to retire in March. Tim Breen, the company’s president and CEO, succeeds Stevens to lead the company. The two have worked closely together during the last few years to ensure a smooth transition.

Stevens began his career with Motion Industries in 1978 as director of human resources. After several promotions to various other roles, he was named president and COO before becoming president and CEO in 1997. With Mr. Stevens at the helm, Motion Industries’ sales grew from $1.85 billion (1997) to $4.8 billion in 2014. A portion of this growth can be attributed to the 38 acquisitions completed during Stevens’ tenure, as well as growth in product offerings, program introductions and system advancements since 1997.

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Festo celebrates 40 years in Canada In celebration of Festo’s 40th anniversary in Canada, the company featured several of its flying bionic engineering marvels from its Bionic Learning Network during March “Engineering Week” at the Ontario Science Center in Toronto. Since its establishment in 1975, the company’s Canadian presence has grown from a modest office in Toronto to more than 370 employees operating from multiple locations across Canada.

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Most recently, the company acquired Quebec City-based Lab-Volt, integrating its operations into Festo Didactic – a division for technical education and industrial training –and boosting Festo’s Canadian workforce by 220 experts.

“Over the past 40 years, Festo has become a substantial part of the Canadian industrial landscape,” emphasized Thomas Lichtenberger, president and CEO of Festo Canada at a press conference held at the Science Centre. “We have built strong relationships with our customers from coast to coast, thanks to our unique and holistic approach to meeting their requirements. As a product innovator, solutions provider and leading industrial educator, Festo will continue to lead industry into the smart factory world of Industry 4.0.”

As with other German automation and industrial component companies, the company has adopted the concept of Industry 4.0 or Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) as a core guiding strategy, moving forward.

“Festo is determined to be a pace-setter in the development and implementation of the smart technologies of tomorrow,” Lichtenberger said. “Our aim at Festo Canada is to maximize the productivity of our current and future customers. That, in turn, will ensure we continue to be a great success story here in Canada for decades to come.” www.festo.ca

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Forget the FUDGE FACTOR

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Engineering in excessive margins of safety fuels the “fluid power is energy inefficient” misconception.

By Dan Helgerson, CFPS, CFPAI, CFPSD

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tive to other forms of power transfer, then we may as well start packing up our formulas and find some other line of work. The frustrating fact is that fluid power does not have to be so inefficient. For years, fluid power professionals have been complaining about having to give away engineering in order to be competitive and sell products. The irony is that the complaint spotlights the fact that we are the ones who have designed the very inefficient systems that are now haunting the fluid power industry.

The users of fluid power have come to us, the Professionals, asking us to provide a solution to their power transfer needs.

Many of them would not know a kilowatt from a horse radish or a BTU from a lemon drop. But we do! In order for us to design their systems, we have to calculate the forces, speeds, pressures and flows that are required to get the job done.

his is what we know: An electro-mechanical system can operate at about 96% overall efficiency. A typical hydraulic system will operate at about 78% overall efficiency. Down at the bottom of the list, we find that a typical pneumatic system is about 6% efficient. So, this begs the question: With the price of energy constantly increasing combined with the pressure to “go green”, why would anyone in his right mind choose to use fluid power as a means to do work?

Let me answer that with the following story. I was recently on a guided tour of a major plastics injection molding facility accompanied by a group of about 20 mechanical engineers. The tour led us to an experimental molding machine that was entirely electro-mechanical. There was not so much as a cooling air jet blowing on the equipment. The tour guide proudly announced that the company was looking at this For years, fluid power professionals have been machine in the hope of getting away from fluid power because everyone knows, and I quote, complaining about having to give away engineering in “Hydraulics is messy and expensive.” I was a guest order to be competitive and sell products. The irony is so I quietly and painfully bit my tongue while everythat the complaint spotlights the fact that we are the one else nodded in unquestioning agreement.

Now, I know this is anecdotal. But a large num- ones who have designed the very inefficient systems ber of anecdotes can show a pattern and enough anecdotes may even be considered data. The fact is that are now haunting the fluid power industry. that a substantial group of design engineers currently planning the equipment of tomorrow do not question the idea Years ago, I had the opportunity to supply a system where that it is wise to avoid fluid power if at all possible. an upward acting press had a 32,000 pound platen that had to Those of us who are passionate about fluid power know there be lifted at a rate of 5 inches per second and then move 1 inch are a number of very good reasons to consider fluid power as a per second applying a force of 150 tons. I suggested a system means to do work. There is the concentration of force, the using a 40 hp electric motor. The machine designer was skeptiremoval of heat, the flexibility, and the ability to produce both cal and told me he did not think it would work. His company linear and rotary motion from a common power source. We had built similar machines before and had always been supplied can take very heavy objects and repeatedly position them within with 60 hp electric motors to drive the hydraulic pumps. .0005 of an inch. We can create a vacuum that will allow us to I asked him to do the math with me. The greatest amount of pick up delicate and oddly shaped material and safely move it. power was consumed in the lifting of the platen. The pressing These are all appropriate things to discuss when presenting the force required relatively little power because of the slow speed. case for fluid power and many of us have been successful in Knowing that HP = 550 lb/ft/sec, I asked him to tell me how doing so. much power would be needed to lift the platen at the rated speed.

However, in this article, we are going to focus on energy He got out his calculator and did (32,000 / 550) * (5/12) = 24.24 because if fluid power cannot be shown as an efficient alterna- or about 25 hp. My 40 hp unit was a concession to the inefficiency March/April | 2015

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FluidPower: ShopTalk of the system and to the availability of the type of electric motor I planned to use.

When the finished machine arrived at its new home in a manufacturing facility, the plant engineer was also skeptical because we had placed a relatively small heat exchanger on the system. He was convinced the power unit would overheat. He had several other machines with 60 hp electric motors and they all had large heat exchangers.

The point is this: The users of fluid power have placed themselves at our mercy. Otherwise competent engineers lay aside what they know about physics when it comes to fluid power.

They want us to handle the “black box” and trust us to provide the best system. In the story above, neither the machine designer nor the plant engineer had done the math to see what the actual requirements were to move the load. They had left it up to us, the fluid power professionals, to tell them what they needed.

We failed them.

Oh, we gave them systems that worked and met the stated requirements, but not systems that represent the best that could be done. The result was that, for years, the machine designer had been supplying inefficient systems and the manufacturer had been paying the energy bill for that inefficiency. They had accepted the wasted energy as simply the cost of doing business, an inherent characteristic of fluid power.

By the way, the system works great and has been in service for about 15 years. My one regret is that, after the fact, I realized I could have supplied a 12 hp electric motor to do the job.

We are fluid power professionals. That means we are professionals at transferring energy and we need to think of ourselves as energy professionals specializing in fluid power. We need to involve the users of fluid power in the decision making process and let them know the cost of inefficiency and offer them the most efficient system available. We need to begin thinking about the entire energy transfer system — from the combustion engine or electric motor to the work being performed.

So reject the “rules of thumb.” Forget the “fudge factor.” Shun the shortcut. We need to view every kW wasted, every SCFM tossed away, and every BTU removed as an opportunity for improvement. To do less is a Electrical disservice to our profession and to those who depend on our expertise.

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2015 Canadian Fluid power leaders discuss market conditions, Industry 4.0 and the future of the Industry.

DE: The National Fluid Power Association’s annual Forecast Report predicts the industry will grow by 1.8% in 2015 over last year. Is this generally in-line with your own projections?

Ted O’Donnell, Regional Manager - Ontario, Bosch Rexroth Canada: I would say we are in a very similar position. Our outlook is a little less optimistic than things were last year but still around that kind of growth. Last year wasn’t a particularly good year and, although 2015 started really well, the forecast isn’t that great, due to the economic situation in Alberta and the Canadian dollar.

John Lamb, National Segment Manager - Packaging, Food & Pharma, ASCO Numatics: Yes, but there will certainly be regional differences. Western Canada will have a harder time,

Products geared towards energy savings (4EE), safety, efficiency and connected industry are getting the most attention. The lines between purely fluid power and purely mechanical or electrical products have been blurring for some time.

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due to low commodity prices causing pressure on industries such as Oil & Gas. In Central and Eastern Canada, the tailwinds would be the lower Canadian dollar and the growing U.S. economy, so industries like automotive and packaging will do well as they are exporting industries. Overall, I would say the fluid power industry in Canada will stay about the same as last year. Without the struggling commodity industry, it would have been better this year.

David LaMonaca, Automation Business Unit Manager, Parker Hannifin Canada: The NFPA forecast is very close to Parker’s estimates. Parker employs full-time economists who evaluate the global market and also produce forecasts by country, including Canada. The growth rate will vary by segment; some markets could see a 4 to 5 percent growth rate, while others are flat or contracting. What we have seen in Canada in the fluid power segment, and specifically in the resource-based markets, was a strong start in 2014 but we have seen that tail off towards the end of 2014 and into 2015 due to the declining cost of a barrel of oil.

Shane Monaghan, Fluid Power Product Manager, Gates Corporation: Our outlook is a lot more positive probably because we are playing in key markets that are driving growth, like the forestry end-market, Oil & Gas and heavy infrastructure. In terms of last year’s sales, for example, 2014 was an excellent year and Gates Canada experienced double-digit growth. In 2015, we are hoping it mimics last year. We have enjoyed a very successful first quarter and are looking forward to an extremely promising year overall. www.design-engineering.com

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FluidPower: Roundtable 43 DE: Will the decline of the Canadian dollar positively or negatively impact Canada’s fluid power industry?

O’Donnell-Bosch: The strong dollar in the U.S. is an advantage for OEMs manufacturing machinery here in Canada and shipping to U.S., which results in a positive influence to the fluid power industry supplying those OEM’s. On the flip side, fluid power equipment from the U.S. is coming into Canada at a higher price, which has a negative effect. Clearly the strength of the Canadian dollar is not having much influence on the bigger effect of the declining oil sector, out west. It also has had little effect on the mining sector, which has been down for a number of years. Of course, manufacturing in Ontario has been hurting for a long time so the stronger dollar is helping here.

Lamb-ASCO Numatics: Here again, I think there will be regional differences. The lower Canadian dollar is certainly putting cost pressure on companies importing products from the U.S. Ultimately, the lower dollar will help Canadian machinery builders be more competitive in the U.S. and around the world so, at the end of the day, it will be a positive for Canadian exporters.

It used to be that the focus was on proprietary software. Now, it’s much more open with user-friendly platforms of communication. So I don’t think the concept of the smart factory or Industry 4.0 is that far off.

— John Lamb, ASCO Numatics John Lamb

LaMonaca-Parker: Some resource-based markets here in Canada are not as significantly affected by the declining Canadian dollar relative to the USD. The price of oil is in U.S. dollars, and Canadian producers base their forecasts on the U.S. dollar barrel. What we are finding in Canada is that our resource-based markets are down in areas such as Oil & Gas, mining and agriculture. For the balance of 2015, our estimates are projecting that the Canadian dollar is going to stay in the 80 cent USD range, plus or minus a couple of cents. This will positively impact the manufacturing sectors, primarily in Ontario and Quebec.

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The Industry 4.0 concept is being adopted by the fluid power industry, and I think you are going to see it greatly expand over the next few years.

—David LaMonaca, Parker Hannifin Canada David LaMonaca

LaMonaca-Parker: In the last five years, fluid power manufacturers have begun investing heavily in making their hydraulic and pneumatic offerings more sophisticated by providing more intelligent on-board electronics. We’re also seeing a trend of increasing the power density of electro-mechanical offerings to displace hydraulics.

Today, we already see a transition from pneumatics to electro-mechanical but now we are seeing that trend shift more towards hydraulics as well. I do definitely see our electromechanical offering displacing traditional fluid power components. The main reason is that we are seeing much more efficiency in electro-mechanical, which is translating into savings to the end user.

Monaghan-Gates: Overall, I believe the impact to be on the negative side, with the exception of Canadian OEM’s buying locally and exporting to the U.S. A large number of Canadian manufactures’ head offices are located outside of Canada, so purchases are made in American dollars but sold in Canadian currency. So, I know the Prairie Provinces are going to be impacted in a negative manner, given the reductions in staff, spending cuts and projects eliminated in the Oil & Gas industry. That’s definitely going to effect fluid power sales there; we have already experienced the slowdown. However, it might actually benefit Ontario where there are a lot of manufacturers who are exporting to the U.S.

Monaghan-Gates: Infrastructure and agriculture OEM’s are pushing for higher corrosion resistant steel couplings that outperform current offerings yet are less expensive than stainless steel. For example, zinc plated couplings are now offered by Gates and a variety of manufacturers. Also, large bore, high pressure spiral hoses are becoming more common as designers develop equipment that requires the ability to displace increased fluid transfer capacity. For instance, in larger I.D. sizes, 2.5-inch 5000psi and 3-inch 4000psi spiral constructed hoses with 4:1 safety factor, non-skive couplings are a product category trending for the future.

DE: Which products or product categories are showing the most promise?

DE: Is the (IoT / Industry 4.0 / Industrial Internet) concept having an impact on fluid power technology? If so, how?

O’Donnell-Bosch: Products geared towards energy savings (4EE), safety, efficiency and connected industry are getting the most attention. The lines between purely fluid power and purely mechanical or electrical products have been blurring for some time, and we now have electro-hydraulic/mechanical equipment with control intelligence on-board allowing distributed intelligence in a system.

For example, Bosch Rexroth has a variable pump with a servo controller on board. There are algorithms built into it that allow it to command a variable frequency drive to change the rotation speed of the electric motor to efficiently control pressure and flow in the system. When the pump needs less pressure or flow, it can control the VFD and thereby lower the energy consumption of the entire system.

O’Donnell, Bosch: Yes, and in an increasing way. Adoption varies at present as we suppliers scramble to conceptualize and implement all the ways this concept can be of solid benefit and bring distinct value to the customer. But products are being developed to be connected to control systems or each other such that they communicate for purposes of coordination or reporting. The prolific increase in low cost MEMs (micro-electromechanical system) chips promises such capabilities as predictive and preventative maintenance on-board fluid power devices.

Lamb-ASCO Numatics: In my experience, I see an uptick in demands for the higher end fieldbus technologies. Networking machinery within a plant or to other equipment is certainly a trend in the market.

It used to be that just the automotive industry embraced this technology, but you are starting to see it across many other industries. So the trend is toward mechatronic components; people aren’t buying pure fluid power as they are looking for combined technology.

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Lamb-ASCO Numatics: This concept is certainly part of the current trend. It really comes down to networking and fieldbus communication. All machinery is going to have to speak a common language.

However, it’s also the current challenge as PLCs and robots generally are on different communication platforms for example. Bringing all the various industrial technologies together on a common communication platform, including fluid power, would be the starting point.

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LaMonaca-Parker: It is definitely in the Parker portfolio. The reason for adopting Industrial Internet of Things or Industry 4.0 is really about making our products more intelligent and connected to a machine network. That facilitates our systems communicating to a central repository where data is used to enhance the system – improve machine efficiency, allow for remote diagnostics, maintain a safe working environment, etc.

Many people use the phrase, “We’re making our products smarter.” At the factory automation level, that intelligence allows us to see where a product is in the entire chain of the machine network and how it is performing. As this movement gains momentum, what should also be considered is that the countries with sufficient computing infrastructure, bandwidth and security will adopt this technology at a faster rate. The Industry 4.0 concept is being adopted by the fluid power industry, and I think you are going to see it greatly expand over the next few years.

Monaghan-Gates: Industry 4.0 has demonstrated a positive impact in regards to recent fluid power technology. Gates, for example, has developed complex algorithms used in conjunction with pressure transducers to deliver real-time monitoring and diagnostic

In the past, end-users would usually wait for hydraulic assemblies to fail. As the digital revolution evolves, hose assemblies in critical applications will have the ability to monitor real-time assembly life.

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information about the current operating condition and performance of hose assemblies. This system continuously measures operating temperatures, pressure spikes and impulse cycles to assess remaining hose life and alert end users before hose failures occur. In the past, end-users would usually wait for hydraulic assemblies to fail.

As the digital revolution evolves, hose assemblies in critical applications (e.g. mining pits, wind farms and offshore platforms) will be able to monitor real time assembly life. This, as well as RFID tagging, will be trending fluid power products in the future. DE

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46 FluidPower: Robotics

ROBOTIC Performance

MapleSim helps design Byrun, a humanoid actor robot that can walk, jump and hop.

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n movies, robots can walk, talk and even pretend to be human.

Their real-life counterparts are considerably more limited.

But this gap is closing, and Engineered Arts, a UK robotics company, is seeking to bring reality closer to fiction.

Engineered Art’s current flagship product, RoboThespian, is a full-sized humanoid robotic actor, with a biologically inspired design. It is used by research and education centres to inform, entertain and investigate new developments in robotics. Institutions in over 20 countries, including NASA Kennedy Space Centre (USA), Gazientep Planetarium (Turkey), Questacon Science Centre (Australia), and numerous universities worldwide are using RoboThespian every day.

Maplesoft technology was used in the design and modeling of balancing and talking RoboThespian robots. MapleSim, the system-level modeling and simulation platform from Maplesoft, was used to design the biologically analogous humanoid robot leg integrating a novel actuator, studying its static and dynamic stability, and building the designed leg to determine strategies for its control. However, RoboThespian, for all his conversational appeal, is largely static. His legs are powered, but he can merely squat and stand in place, never moving from a fixed location.

Enter Byrun, the latest Engineered Arts endeavour. Using MapleSim, Byrun’s designers and engineers have developed a biologically analogous leg design that will give Byrun the ability to walk, run, jump and hop. Byrun will be a new kind of full-scale dynamic humanoid that will take social robotics to the next level. With a faster, stronger, more dexterous upper body, a virtually infinite array of facial features (courtesy of his projective head display), and the same speaking and singing abilities as his predecessor, Byrun has the potential to revolutionize human-robot interaction.

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“In Byrun, we want to integrate more human-like dynamics into the mechanical design,” says Guillaume Hirohide Sasagawa, an engineer at Engineered Arts. “Using a human-inspired approach at a hardware level makes walking, running and jumping possible without rigid, robotic-looking motion.”

MapleSim assisted in Byrun’s design by allowing engineers to simulate complex, nonlinear, compliant components such as his pneumatic muscles and parallel springs. These are used for safety compliance, shock absorption, energy efficiency and human-like, smooth motion curves.

Engineered Arts specializes in unconventional actuation solutions, chosen to best suit the application. Motors are fast and precise, but inefficient and rigid. Pneumatic actuators, on the other hand, are powerful and energy efficient, but difficult to control. The conventional approach in robotics is to use a single actuator for a single joint; Byrun will use a parallel electro-pneumatic design, where multiple actuators control single joint actions. This approach utilizes the best facets of both types of actuation, while compensating for their drawbacks.

Conversely, some actuators will generate coupled motion across several axes to imitate, for example, the organic design of the human shoulder. This makes for more natural-looking motion, but can be potentially difficult to control. Here, once more, Maplesoft provided advanced solvers that can tackle the difficult multi-variant control equations used to develop Byrun’s motion algorithms.

By creating virtual prototypes of each design phase in MapleSim, Byrun’s engineers can investigate the feasibility of mechanical solutions without needing to create a laborious series of prototypes.

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FluidPower: Robotics very fast virtual environment,” explains Guillaume. “We are no longer required to rebuild the robot for every design iteration, which saves us significant time and cost, and allows us to explore more radical options. As well, complex kinematics can be easily simplified with the use of Maple. This is a powerful tool, as the resources required for the project are considerably reduced.”

Byrun’s hardware requires modeling mechanical, electrical, thermal and pneumatic elements. With the help of the simulation tool MapleSim, the component requirements can be largely anticipated in advance. The team at Engineered Arts Ltd. has also found MapleSim useful for its ability to simplify complex calculations.

“MapleSim’s ability to automatically generate complex mathematical models, such as the leg dynamics, is outstanding,” Guillaume said. “Different parameters can be altered at different stages to reduce the complexity of calculations.

In the case of Byrun, we were able to dramatically simplify the leg dynamics, making the computations much faster.

This is extremely powerful and has real impact on our project timelines and deliverables.”

In addition to designing Byrun’s electro-pneumatic hybrid legs and upper body for fully mobile walking and running, the

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engineers at Engineered Arts Ltd are also developing a robotic hand with the same principles, creating a compact, highly efficient compliant manipulator. They have designed an elbow joint with unconventional kinematic characteristics in humanoid robotics with electro-pneumatic parallel actuation, and are currently making a full torso-shoulder-arm model in MapleSim. This model will be used for solving forward kinematics, inverse kinematics, end-effecter dynamics and compliance.

“To be worth its cost, this robot must perform something never seen before,” Engineered Arts Director, William Jackson, told the media. “If it can do just 10% of John Travolta’s walk, Margot Fonteyn’s dance and Julia Roberts’ smile, we have a winner. Achieving these goals is a daunting task.

We are creating not just an exciting piece of hardware, but one that will make a great development platform for others to build on. When Byrun takes his next step, so shall we.”

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FluidPower: CFPA Corner

Driving EFFICIENCY Combining hydraulics with variable-speed electric drives pays off in energy savings and performance.

By Rodney Trail

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ith conventional hydraulic systems used on many industrial machines, the hydraulic power unit is typically powered by an electric motor running at a constant speed, regardless of whether flow/pressure are needed at that moment. Even if the machine is idle, the motor is always running and consuming energy—which is a major concern as electricity becomes more costly.

Fortunately, in recent years, the cost of using variable-speed drive technology has become more economical, making it effective to combine variable-speed electric drives with hydraulics to provide an energy saving, high-performance alternative for use in many applications.

In constant-speed pump drives, the electric motor always runs at the same rotational speed. If the system does not need the maximum installed output, system pressure is controlled either by the hydraulic pump pressure compensator control, or by additional hydraulic pressure control valves mounted downstream.

Consequently, some motor horsepower is wasted.

At the same time, the hydraulic pump leakage and/or valve leakage are heating the hydraulic oil, leading to more energy consumption. By applying a variable-speed electric motor, these energy losses can be reduced significantly or avoided. During cycle pauses or when operating at partial load, a variable-speed drive reduces its rotational speed to produce only as much flow as required.

A variable-speed pump/motor system consists of a frequency converter with a PID controller, asynchronous or servo electric motor, pressure transducer and a fixed-displacement hydraulic pump.

The flow rate of the fixed-displacement hydraulic pump operates proportionally to the drive speed of the electric motor. The machine controller transfers the pressure/volume flow target values to the frequency converter during operation. The predominant system pressure is measured by a pressure transducer

and is also sent to the frequency converter. Based on the control deviation, the built-in PID controller inherent to the frequency converter calculates the required motor speed and adapts it accordingly to the existing target values of flow rate and pressure.

An on-demand control system adjusts drive output to the actual hydraulic load—which involves programming the drive software for the specific hydraulic fluid characteristics and system dynamics.

Properly integrating a variable-speed drive into a hydraulic system can deliver dramatic energy savings. Depending on the application and cycle characteristics, energy consumption can fall by 30 to 80 percent because the average discharge flow is reduced over the entire machine cycle. Moreover, heat input into the oil is reduced, which reduces the energy needed for cooling. As an additional benefit, the reduction in drive speed can reduce average noise emission of the hydraulic power unit by up to 20 dBA. Suitable for a wide range of hydraulic pumps, variable-speed drives offer performance benefits, such as providing precise clamping and tensioning functions for machine tools; enabling fast acceleration to handle the dynamics of plastics processing machines; offering high power density and load-holding capacity on diecasting machines; and improving rolling up and pressure-holding functions on woodworking and papermaking machines. This solution also accommodates new and retrofit applications.

Combining variable-speed drives with hydraulic systems significantly advances efficiency and performance—giving many industries that use hydraulics a substantial boost in productivity and energy savings.

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Rodney Trail is a Sytronix specialist with Bosch Rexroth Canada.

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he development of computerized layer winding and improved microprocessing has considerably reduced the body length of the linear position sensor compared to its measurable stroke length. With the improved stroke-to-length ratio (now up to 80%), the LVDT linear position sensor becomes a viable position measurement device for hydraulic cylinder positioning.

The role of the cylinder in most hydraulic applications is to move “something” such as a valve, airplane tail rudder or a boom or shovel on an off-road vehicle. In these applications, the control system needs a feedback device that tells it how far the cylinder or actuator moved to ensure proper operations.

That’s where the linear position sensor comes in. Installed within or outside the cylinder, the LVDT tracks the movement of actuators and reports data electronically to a control system that can monitor and provide alerts on operating conditions.

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For example, if a pilot wants to turn the plane, he moves the joystick. The plane’s control system senses that he has moved the joystick and sends a signal to the tail rudder actuator to move the tail rudder. If the system has no way of knowing how far the actuator has moved through position feedback provided by an LVDT linear position sensor, the plane could turn too much or not enough.

A second example would be a robotic arm. In this scenario, let’s say the robotic arm is going to move to pick up a piece of glass. If the control system doesn’t know when to stop the arm by receiving position feedback from an LVDT position sensor, the hydraulic cylinder could drive the arm right through the piece of glass.

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Many modern LVDTs can serve as cost effective replacements to magnetostrictive technology that are somewhat expensive in shorter ranges, have difficulty handling large shocks and exhibit good temperature stability over a limited temperature range.

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Eileen Otto is marketing manager at AST Macro Sensors. www.design-engineering.com

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Western Region Industry Reception Date: April 23, 2015 Place: Hotel Blackfoot, Calgary, AB Reception, business meeting and keynote presentation on: Economic Outlook for Alberta

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52 FluidPower: Showcase Solenoid Valves Festo unveiled its VSNC series of standard solenoid NAMUR valves that convert from a 5/2-way valve into a 3/2-way valve by turning its seal 180°. In 3/2-way mode, exhaust air is fed via the seal into the spring chamber of the actuator. The VSNC product range also includes solenoid options certified to NEC 500 for Class 1, Div. 1 and 2, made especially for explosive environments. Like any magnetic valve, the VSNC consists of a main valve and coil, each of which can be ordered separately, or as a complete unit. www.festo.ca

Servo-Proportional Valve Eaton expanded its AxisPro product line, now including a two-stage, D08 size proportional valve featuring position feedback on the pilot and main stage. The larger valve is designed for demanding applications including injection and blow molding machines, large press applications, die casting, primary metals, test and simulation and wood

processing applications. The two-stage valve offers on-board motion control, built-in diagnostic light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and a CANopen bus. The valve features 375 liter per minute (lpm) rated flow at 10 bar pressure, 350 bar maximum pressure rating and 30 millisecond (msec) step response with 100 bar pilot pressure. Additionally, the valve is ambient temperature rated for -25°C to 70°C and IP 65/67 ingress protection rated. www.eaton.com

Flow Controller Pisco USA released a flow controller with the industry’s first built-in shock absorber function. The flow controllers use a 2-stage speed control to regulate exhaust speed and to absorb shock in pneumatic cylinders. Pisco flow controllers have 3 needles to adjust the initial speed of the cylinder (first stage), speed of the brake (second stage) and timing of the speed shift. The second stage speed provides a cushion and reduces the speed at the end of the stroke.

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Swing Clamp DE-STA-CO upgraded its 9500 series pneumatic swing clamp with new mounting options and an additional bore size. A new optional flange kit enables the swing clamp to be mounted to any face, including the front or side of a fixture, or even an inside corner. New tapped mounts are also available, which allow screws to be threaded directly into the clamp body. DE-STA-CO has also increased the 9500 series’ capabilities by adding a 50mm bore size. Other bore sizes include 22mm, 32mm and 40mm, providing options to fit a variety of light-duty needs.

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Pressure Transmitter Transducer manufacturer, tecsis LP, introduced its Model SP007, a customer-configurable pressure transmitter available with gage, absolute or vacuum reference. Customers can select from two accuracies, three outputs, 12 pressure ports and five electrical connectors.

The design features silicon technology and welded stainless steel construction to provide a 3x safe overload rating. This unit is available in 26 ranges from 0-0.5 to 0-5,000 psi with standard accuracy of 0.25% or optional high accuracy of 0.1%. The unit offers amplified output of 0-5VDC, 0-10VDC or 4-20mA. Operating temperature is -40° to 240°F, compensated from 40° to 140°F. www.tecsis.us

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Controllers: Hydrostatic Drive . . . . . 56 Controllers: Motion . . . . 56 Controllers: Programmable Logic . . . 56 Controls: Electronic . . . . 56 Counters: Hydraulic . . . . 56 Counters: Particle . . . . . 56 Couplings: Air Self Sealing 56 Couplings: Flexible Shaft . 56 Couplings: Fluid Self Sealing . . . . . 56 Couplings: Quick Disconnect . . . . . 56 Cylinder Accessories . . . 56 Cylinders: Adjustable Stroke . . . . 56 Cylinders: Air/Oil . . . . . 57 Cylinders: Cable . . . . . 57 Cylinders: Clamping . . . 57 Cylinders: Composite (Pneumatic & Hydraulic) . 57 Cylinders: ElectroHydraulic . . . . . . . . . 57 Cylinders: Hydraulic . . . 57 Cylinders: Metric . . . . . 57 Cylinders: Mill . . . . . . 57 Cylinders: Miniature . . . 57 Cylinders: Pneumatic . . . 57 Cylinders: Rodless . . . . 57 Dampers: Hydraulic . . . 57 Die Lifters, Pneumatic . . 57 Drives: Hydro-Static . . . 57 Dryers: Air-Absorptive . . 57 Dryers: Air-Adsorptive . . 57 Dryers: Air-Chemical . . . 57 Dryers: Air-Refrigerant . . 57 Electrical Panels . . . . . 57 Enclosures . . . . . . . . 57 End Effectors . . . . . . . 57 Fasteners . . . . . . . . . 57 Filter Regulator Lubricator (Frl) . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Filters: Compressed Air . . 58 Filters: Exhaust Air . . . . 58 Filters: Flanged . . . . . . 58 Filters: Hydraulic . . . . . 58 Filters: Pneumatic . . . . 58 Filtration Systems . . . . 58 Fittings: Flanged . . . . . 58 Fittings: Hose & Tube . . . 58 Fittings: Metric Hose & Tube . . . 58 Fittings: Pipe . . . . . . . 58

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Hydraulic Hose Assemblies . . . . . . . . 59 Hydraulic Integrated Circuits . . . . 59 Hydraulic Power Units . . 59 Hydraulic Valve Components . . . . . . . 59 Hydrostatic Drive Components . . . . . . . 59 Indexing Tables, Rotary Pneumatic . . . . . . . . 59 Intensifiers: Continuous Action . . . . . . . . . . 59 Intensifiers: Single Action . 59 Intensifiers: Variable Displacement . . . . . . . 59 Leak Detectors . . . . . . 59 Load Cells . . . . . . . . 59 Lubricants . . . . . . . . 59 Lubrication Devices . . . 59 Lubrication Systems . . . 59 Lubricators, Pneumatic . . 59 Manifolds: Hydraulic . . . 59 Manifolds: Pneumatic . . 59 Marine Coolers . . . . . . 59 Meters, Positive Displacement . . . . . . . 59 Metric Tube Adapter . . . 59 Mobile Coolers . . . . . . 59 Monitor Systems . . . . . 59 Motors: Electric With Pump Flange Mount . . . . . . 59 Motors: Electro-Hydraulic Stepping . . . . . . . . . 59 Motors: Hydraulic . . . . . 59 Motors: Metric . . . . . . 59 Motors: Pneumatic . . . . 59 Mufflers, Pneumatic . . . 59 Nozzles . . . . . . . . . . 59 Oil Coolers . . . . . . . . 59 O Rings . . . . . . . . . . 59 Packings: Braided . . . . 59 Packings: Cup . . . . . . 60 Packings: Gasket . . . . . 60 Packings: Leather . . . . 60 Packings: Metallic . . . . 60 Packings: Synthetic . . . . 60 Packings: U-Rings . . . . 60 Packings: V-Rings . . . . 60 Piston Rings: Metal . . . . 60 Piston Rings: Nonmetallic . . . . . . . 60 Piston Rods . . . . . . . 60 Port Plugs . . . . . . . . 60

Power Steering Components & Assemblies . . . . . . . 60 Power Take Offs . . . . . 60 Power Units & Systems . . 60 Pressure Gauge Protectors Snubbers . . . . . . . . . 60 Pressure Switches . . . . 60 Pressure Transmitters . . 60 Pump Adaptors . . . . . . 60 Pump Housings . . . . . 60 Pumps: Centrifugal . . . . 60 Pumps: Diaphragm . . . . 60 Pumps: Fixed Displacement . . . 60 Pumps: High Pressure . . 60 Pumps: Hydraulic . . . . . 60 Pumps: Hydraulic Hand . . 60 Pumps: Metering . . . . . 60 Pumps: Piston . . . . . . 60 Pumps: Pneumatic . . . . 60 Pumps: Pneumatic Driven . . . . 60 Pumps: Reciprocating . . 60 Pumps: Rotary . . . . . . 60 Pumps: Rotary Positive Replacement . . . . . . . 60 Pumps: Vacuum . . . . . 60 Pumps: Variable Displacement . . . . . . . 60 Pumps: Water . . . . . . 60 Receivers, Pneumatic . . 60 Regulators: Hydraulic . . . 60 Regulators: Pneumatic . . 61 Regulators: Vacuum . . . 61 Reservoir Accessories . . 61 Reservoir Tanks . . . . . 61 Rings: Backup . . . . . . 61 Rings: Piston . . . . . . . 61 Rings: Wear . . . . . . . 61 Rings: Wiper . . . . . . . 61 Sealants: Thread . . . . . 61 Seals: Fittings . . . . . . 61 Seals: General . . . . . . 61 Seals: Kits . . . . . . . . 61 Seals: Mechanical . . . . 61 Seals: Oil . . . . . . . . . 61 Seals: O-Ring-Elastomeric 61 Seals: O-Ring-Metallic . . 61 Seals: Rubber Diaphragm 61 Seals: Rubber Hydraulic . 61 Sensors . . . . . . . . . 61 Sensors: Displacement . . 61 Sensors: Pressure . . . . 61

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Sensors: Ultrasonic Fluid Level . . . 61 Shafting . . . . . . . . . 61 Shims . . . . . . . . . . 61 Shock Absorbers . . . . . 61 Silencers & Mufflers . . . 61 Sleeves, Boots . . . . . . 61 Slides, Pneumatic . . . . 61 Software: Fluid Power System Design . . . . . . . . . . 61 Solenoid Valves: General Purpose . . . . . 61 Solenoid Valves: Proportional . . . . . . . 61 Springs: Air . . . . . . . . 61 Springs: Gas . . . . . . . 61 Strainers/ Diffusers . . . . 61 Switches: Fluid Level . . . 61 Switches: Pressure . . . . 62 Switches: Temperature . . 62 Swivel Joints: Hydraulic . 62 Swivel Joints: Pneumatic . 62 Tachometers/Stroboscopes . 62 Tape . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Test Equipment: Hydraulic 62 Test Equipment: Pneumatic62 Testing Instruments . . . 62 Thread Protectors . . . . 62 Thrusters, Linear . . . . . 62 Transducers: Electro-Pneumatic . . . . 62 Transducers: Pressure . . 62 Transmissions: Hydrodynamic . . . . . . 62 Transmissions: Hydrostatic 62 Tube Fabricating . . . . . 62 Tube/Hose Cleaning Equipment . . . . . . . . 62 Tubing: Aluminium . . . . 62 Tubing & Hose . . . . . . 62 Tubing: Plastic . . . . . . 62 Tubing: Rubber . . . . . . 62 Tubing: Stainless Steel . . 62 Tubing: Steel . . . . . . . 62 Turbine Oil Coalescers . . 62 Unions, Rotating . . . . . 62 Vacuum Cups . . . . . . 62 Vacuum Dehydrators . . . 62 Valve Circuits . . . . . . . 62 Valves Air: Check . . . . . 62 Valves Air: Circuit Logic Control . . . . . . . . . . 62 Valves Air: Deceleration . 62 Valves Air: Directional . . 62

Valves Air: Drive . . . . . 62 Valves Air: Flow Control . 62 Valves Air: Pilot Operated . 63 Valves Air: Quick Exhaust Dumping . . . . . . . . . 63 Valves Air: Relief . . . . . 63 Valves Air: Sequence . . . 63 Valves Air: Shuttle . . . . 63 Valves Air: Solenoid . . . . 63 Valves Air: Time Delay . . 63 Valves: Ball . . . . . . . . 63 Valves: Bleed . . . . . . . 63 Valves: Butterfly . . . . . 63 Valves: Check . . . . . . 63 Valves: Gate . . . . . . . 63 Valves Hydraulic: Air Bleed 63 Valves Hydraulic: Check Pilot Operated . . . . . . . . . 63 Valves Hydraulic: Counterbalance . . . . . 63 Valves Hydraulic: Deceleration . . . . . . . 63 Valves Hydraulic: Directional63 Valves Hydraulic: Flow Control . . . . . . . 63 Valves Hydraulic: Flow Dividers . . . . . . . . . 63 Valves Hydraulic: Miniature63 Valves Hydraulic: Mobile . 63 Valves Hydraulic: Pilot Operated . . . . . . . . . 63 Valves Hydraulic: Plastic Diaphragm . . . . . . . . 63 Valves Hydraulic: Pressure Control . . . . . 63 Valves Hydraulic: Pressure Reducing . . . . . . . . . 63 Valves Hydraulic: Proportional . . . . . . . 63 Valves Hydraulic: Relief Unloading . . . . . . . . 63 Valves Hydraulic: Sequence . 63 Valves Hydraulic: Servo . . 63 Valves Hydraulic: Shuttle . 63 Valves Hydraulic: Surge Damping . . . . . . . . . 63 Valves: Metering . . . . . 63 Valves: Oil Sampling . . . 63 Valves: Plugs . . . . . . . 63 Valves Pneumatic, Miniature . . . . . . . . . 63 Valve Spools, Directional Control Hydraulic . . . . . 62 Valves: Stop . . . . . . . 63 Valves: Water . . . . . . . 63

Berendsen Fluid Power Bosch Rexroth Canada Brim G & H Fluid Handling Products Drive Products Great Lakes Hydraulics Higginson Equipment Inc. Hydac Corporation Hydraflow-Pumptech Fluid Power Hypower Systems MP Filtri (Canada) Parker Hannifin Canada Pneutech-Rousseau Group Stauff Canada Ltd. Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

ACCUMULATORS: DIAPHRAGM Bosch Rexroth Canada Brim G & H Fluid Handling Products Drive Products Hydac Corporation Parker Hannifin Canada Pneutech-Rousseau Group Stauff Canada Ltd. Wainbee Limited

ACCUMULATORS: PISTON

Berendsen Fluid Power Brim G & H Fluid Handling Products Cross Mfg Inc. Great Lakes Hydraulics Parker Hannifin Canada Pneutech-Rousseau Group Ram Industries Wainbee Limited

Helac Corporation Higginson Equipment Inc. MP Filtri (Canada) Parker Hannifin Canada Pneutech-Rousseau Group Scott Rotary Seals Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

ACTUATORS: ROTARY PNEUMATIC Aventics BellowsTech, LLC Fabco-Air Inc. Festo Geo. T. White Higginson Equipment Inc. Parker Hannifin Canada Pneutech-Rousseau Group Scott Rotary Seals Setpoint Technologies Wainbee Limited

ACTUATORS: SOLENOID

Brim G & H Fluid Handling Products Clippard Instrument Laboratory Pneutech-Rousseau Group Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

ADAPTORS & MOUNTS, MOTOR

Dendoff Springs

Berendsen Fluid Power BSF, Inc. Drive Products Great Lakes Hydraulics MP Filtri (Canada) Pneutech-Rousseau Group Rosta Inc. Rotator Products Ltd. Toro Hydraulic & Machinery

ACTUATORS: ELECTRIC

ADAPTORS & MOUNTS, PUMP

Bimba Manufacturing Co. Brim G & H Fluid Handling Products Clippard Instrument Laboratory Electromate Parker Hannifin Canada Pneutech-Rousseau Group Setpoint Technologies Wainbee Limited Wittenstein

Berendsen Fluid Power BSF, Inc. Drive Products Great Lakes Hydraulics MP Filtri (Canada) Parker Hannifin Canada Pneutech-Rousseau Group Rosta Inc. Toro Hydraulic & Machinery

ACTUATORS: LINEAR-ELECTRIC

AFTER-COOLERS

ACCUMULATORS: SPRING-LOADED

Action Valve and Cylinder Cowper Inc. Drive Centre Electromate Festo Parker Hannifin Canada Pneutech-Rousseau Group PQ Systems Ltd. Rotator Products Ltd. Servo-Robot Inc. Skeans Engineering & Machinery Tolomatic Wainbee Limited Wittenstein

ACTUATORS: LINEAR-HYDRAULIC Berendsen Fluid Power Brim G & H Fluid Handling Products Fabco-Air Inc. Feldcamp Equipment Geo. T. White Higginson Equipment Inc. Humphrey Automation Inc. KYB Americas Corporation Parker Hannifin Canada Pneutech-Rousseau Group PQ Systems Ltd. Ram Industries Wainbee Limited

ACTUATORS: LINEAR-HYDRAULICSERVO Berendsen Fluid Power Parker Hannifin Canada Pneutech-Rousseau Group Wainbee Limited

ACTUATORS: MANUAL Val-Matic Valve & Mfg. Corp.

ACTUATORS: ROTARY HYDRAULIC BellowsTech, LLC Berendsen Fluid Power Bosch Rexroth Canada Feldcamp Equipment Heco

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Drive Products Maritime Compressor Pneutech-Rousseau Group TTP - An API Heat Transfer Wainbee Limited

AIR BREATHERS

Beach Filter Products Inc. Berendsen Fluid Power Climax Company Ltd. Drive Products Filtramax Inc. Filtration Products Corp Great Lakes Hydraulics Hy-Pro Filtration MP Filtri (Canada) Oil-Rite Corporation Pneutech-Rousseau Group Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

AIR COMPRESSOR OILS Maritime Compressor Wainbee Limited

AIR LOGIC DEVICES

Action Valve and Cylinder Brim G & H Fluid Handling Products Clippard Instrument Laboratory Fabco-Air Inc. Festo Pneutech-Rousseau Group Wainbee Limited

AIR OPERATED HYDRAULIC PUMPS Higginson Equipment Inc. Pneutech-Rousseau Group Wainbee Limited

BLADDERS

Berendsen Fluid Power Brim G & H Fluid Handling Products MP Filtri (Canada) Pneutech-Rousseau Group Toro Hydraulic & Machinery

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ProductListings BLOW GUNS

CLOSURES, CAPS & PLUGS

BLOWERS: CENTRIFUGAL

CLUTCHES: HYDRAULIC

Exair Corporation Festo Pneutech-Rousseau Group Wainbee Limited Aerzen Blowers/Compressors Baumen Associates Drive Products Spencer Turbine Wainbee Limited

BLOWERS: POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT

Cords Canada Limited Daemar Inc. MOCAP Pneutech-Rousseau Group Pneutech-Rousseau Group

CLUTCHES: PNEUMATIC TENSION CONTROL Higginson Equipment Inc.

COMPRESSORS: AIR-DIAPHRAGM

Aerzen Blowers/Compressors of Cda Drive Products

Wainbee Limited

BRAKES: HYDRAULIC

Aerzen Blowers/Compressors of Cda Maritime Compressor Nash, A Gardner Denver Product Pneutech-Rousseau Group Wainbee Limited

Berendsen Fluid Power Dellner Industrial Hydraflow-Pumptech Fluid Power Pinnacle Systems, Inc. Pneutech-Rousseau Group Rotator Products Ltd. SunSource Tech Serv (Cda) Ltd Tolomatic, Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

BRAKES: PNEUMATIC Higginson Equipment Inc. Pneutech-Rousseau Group Tolomatic, Wainbee Limited

BUMPERS

Rotator Products Ltd.

CAN BUS SYSTEMS

Drive Products Festo Hawe North America Pneutech-Rousseau Group SunSource Tech Serv (Cda) Ltd

CLAMPS, HOSE & TUBE & PIPE Boyaux et Raccords Green Line Cords Canada Limited Fairview Great Lakes Hydraulics Kuritec Corporation Oetiker Inc. Patel Hose Inc. Pneutech-Rousseau Group Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited Williams Fluidair Corp Ltd.

COMPRESSORS: AIR-OIL-LESS

COMPRESSORS: AIR-RECIPROCATING Airvacox Ltée Maritime Compressor Pneutech-Rousseau Group Skeans Engineering & Machinery Wainbee Limited

COMPRESSORS: AIR-ROTARY SCREW Aerzen Blowers/Compressors of Cda Airvacox Ltée Drive Products Maritime Compressor Pneutech-Rousseau Group Skeans Engineering & Machinery

COMPRESSORS: AIR-ROTARY VANE Airvacox Ltée Drive Products Maritime Compressor Skeans Engineering & Machinery Wainbee Limited

COMPRESSORS: CENTRIFUGAL Aerzen Blowers/Compressors of Cda Airvacox Ltée

CONNECTORS, ELECTRIC Berendsen Fluid Power Cords Canada Limited Pneutech-Rousseau Group Servometer

CONTAMINATION CONTROL Berendsen Fluid Power Hy-Pro Filtration N.R. Murphy Limited Pneutech-Rousseau Group

CONTROLLERS: ELECTRO-HYDRAULIC Berendsen Fluid Power Bosch Rexroth Canada Brand Hydraulics Delta Computer Systems Drive Products Feldcamp Equipment Hawe North America Parker Hannifin Canada Pinnacle Systems, Inc. Pneutech-Rousseau Group Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

CONTROLLERS: ELECTRO-PNEUMATIC Action Valve and Cylinder Aventics Delta Computer Systems Drive Products Festo Pinnacle Systems, Inc. Pneutech-Rousseau Group Wainbee Limited

CONTROLLERS: FLOW Berendsen Fluid Power Davis Controls Ltd. Drive Products MKS Instruments Omega Environmental Pneutech-Rousseau Group Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Turck Chartwell Canada

CONTROLLERS: HYDROSTATIC DRIVE Berendsen Fluid Power Drive Products Feldcamp Equipment Pneutech-Rousseau Group

CONTROLLERS: MOTION Berendsen Fluid Power Bosch Rexroth Canada Clippard Instrument Laboratory Cowper Inc. Davis Controls Ltd. Delta Computer Systems Drive Centre Drive Products Electromate Festo Maxon Precision Motors, Inc. Omega Environmental Pinnacle Systems, Inc. Pneutech-Rousseau Group PQ Systems Ltd. Tolomatic Wainbee Limited

CONTROLLERS: PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC Bosch Rexroth Canada Carlo Gavazzi (Canada) Inc. Davis Controls Ltd. Drive Centre Drive Products Eaton Electromate Festo Hawe North America Maxon Precision Motors, Inc. Omega Environmental Pneutech-Rousseau Group Tolomatic,

CONTROLS: ELECTRO-HYDRAULIC

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Berendsen Fluid Power Brand Hydraulics Delta Computer Systems Drive Products Fluid Power Sales, Inc. Hypower Systems Lynch Fluid Controls Parker Hannifin Canada Pinnacle Systems, Inc. Pneutech-Rousseau Group

CONTROLS: ELECTRONIC Baumen Associates Berendsen Fluid Power Brand Hydraulics Carlo Gavazzi (Canada) Inc. Delta Computer Systems Drive Centre Drive Products Electromate Festo Lynch Fluid Controls Maxon Precision Motors, Inc.

Parker Hannifin Canada Pinnacle Systems, Inc. PQ Systems Ltd. Rotator Products Ltd. Turck Chartwell Canada

COUNTERS: HYDRAULIC MP Filtri (Canada) Toro Hydraulic & Machinery

COUNTERS: PARTICLE Berendsen Fluid Power Hy-Pro Filtration MP Filtri (Canada) Omega Environmental Parker Hannifin Canada Pneutech-Rousseau Group Stauff Canada Ltd. Wainbee Limited

COUNTERS: PNEUMATIC Clippard Instrument Laboratory Festo Pneutech-Rousseau Group Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

COUPLINGS: AIR SELF SEALING Pneutech-Rousseau Group

COUPLINGS: FLEXIBLE SHAFT BellowsTech, LLC BSF, Inc. DieQua Electromate Great Lakes Hydraulics John Crane Canada MP Filtri (Canada) Pneutech-Rousseau Group Rotator Products Ltd. Servometer Wittenstein

COUPLINGS: FLUID SELF SEALING Berendsen Fluid Power Rotator Products Ltd.

COUPLINGS: QUICK DISCONNECT Berendsen Fluid Power Beswick Engineering Co Inc. Boyaux et Raccords Green Line Climax Company Ltd. Clippard Instrument Laboratory DK-Lok Ontario Drive Products Durham Pneumatic Automation Eaton Fairview Festo Gates Canada Inc. Great Lakes Hydraulics Maritime Compressor Omega Environmental Parker Hannifin Quick Coupling Div. Pneutech-Rousseau Group Rotator Products Ltd. Rubberline Products Ltd. SafeWay Hydraulics

COUPLINGS: ROTATING SWIVEL Festo Gates Canada Inc. Pneutech-Rousseau Group Scott Rotary Seals

CYLINDER ACCESSORIES Berendsen Fluid Power Clippard Instrument Laboratory Dendoff Springs Great Lakes Hydraulics Hercules Sealing Prod Canada Pneu-Hyd Industries Ltd. Pneutech-Rousseau Group Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

CYLINDERS: ADJUSTABLE STROKE Air-Hydraulics Inc. Aventics Fabco-Air Inc. Higginson Equipment Inc. Pneu-Hyd Industries Ltd. Pneutech-Rousseau Group Ram Industries Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

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Air-Hydraulics Inc. Aventics CenterLine (Windsor) Limited Clippard Instrument Laboratory Fabco-Air Inc. Higginson Equipment Inc. Pneutech-Rousseau Group Ram Industries Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

CYLINDERS: CABLE

Pneutech-Rousseau Group Wainbee Limited

CYLINDERS: CLAMPING Fabco-Air Inc. Festo Pneutech-Rousseau Group Wainbee Limited

CYLINDERS: COMPOSITE (PNEUMATIC & HYDRAULIC) Aventics Berendsen Fluid Power Fabco-Air Inc. Festo Higginson Equipment Inc. Parker Hannifin Canada Pneutech-Rousseau Group Ram Industries Skeans Engineering & Machinery Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

CYLINDERS: ELECTRO-HYDRAULIC Aventics Berendsen Fluid Power Higginson Equipment Inc. Parker Hannifin Canada Pneutech-Rousseau Group Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

CYLINDERS: HYDRAULIC

Air-Hydraulics Inc. Aventics Berendsen Fluid Power Bimba Manufacturing Co. Brim G & H Fluid Handling Products CenterLine (Windsor) Limited Clippard Instrument Laboratory Cross Mfg Inc. Durham Pneumatic Automation Eastern Fluid Power Inc. Eaton Fabco-Air Inc. Fluid Power Sales, Inc. Great Lakes Hydraulics Hercules Sealing Prod Canada Higginson Equipment Inc. Hydraflow-Pumptech Fluid Power Hypower Systems KYB Americas Corporation Motion Canada Mullen Fluid Power Parker Hannifin Canada Pneu-Hyd Industries Ltd. Pneutech-Rousseau Group Ram Industries Rubberline Products Ltd. Taylor Devices Inc. Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited Williams Fluidair Corp Ltd.

CYLINDERS: METRIC

Brim G & H Fluid Handling Products Clippard Instrument Laboratory Durham Pneumatic Automation Great Lakes Hydraulics Hercules Sealing Prod Canada Higginson Equipment Inc. Parker Hannifin Canada Pneutech-Rousseau Group Tolomatic, Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

CYLINDERS: MILL

Berendsen Fluid Power Cross Mfg Inc. Durham Pneumatic Automation Great Lakes Hydraulics Parker Hannifin Canada Pneutech-Rousseau Group Ram Industries Wainbee Limited

CYLINDERS: MINIATURE Aventics Berendsen Fluid Power Fabco-Air Inc. Higginson Equipment Inc. Pneutech-Rousseau Group Wainbee Limited Williams Fluidair Corp Ltd.

CYLINDERS: PNEUMATIC Action Valve and Cylinder Air-Hydraulics Inc. ASCO Numatics Aventics Berendsen Fluid Power Bimba Manufacturing Co. CenterLine (Windsor) Limited Clippard Instrument Laboratory Cowper Inc. Drive Products Durham Pneumatic Automation Fabco-Air Inc. Festo Great Lakes Hydraulics Hercules Sealing Prod Canada Hi-Tech Controls Higginson Equipment Inc. Hypower Systems Motion Canada Mullen Fluid Power Parker Hannifin Canada Pneutech-Rousseau Group Ram Industries Rubberline Products Ltd. Tolomatic, Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited Williams Fluidair Corp Ltd.

DRYERS: AIR-ADSORPTIVE

FASTENERS

DRYERS: AIR-CHEMICAL

FILTER CARTS

Airvacox Ltée Filtramax Inc. Parker Hannifin Canada Skeans Engineering & Machinery Airvacox Ltée Wainbee Limited

DRYERS: AIR-REFRIGERANT Airvacox Ltée Berg Chilling Systems Inc. Filtramax Inc. Higginson Equipment Inc. Maritime Compressor Parker Hannifin Canada Pneutech-Rousseau Group Skeans Engineering & Machinery Wainbee Limited

ELECTRICAL PANELS Carlo Gavazzi (Canada) Inc. Davis Controls Ltd. Drive Centre Rotator Products Ltd.

ENCLOSURES

Carlo Gavazzi (Canada) Inc. Exair Corporation Omega Environmental Ralston Metal Products Ltd.

END EFFECTORS Aventics Fabco-Air Inc. Geo. T. White Wainbee Limited

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Cords Canada Limited Daemar Inc. Dendoff Springs Oetiker Inc. Beach Filter Products Inc. Berendsen Fluid Power Eastern Fluid Power Inc. Filtramax Inc. Great Lakes Hydraulics Hy-Pro Filtration Hydac Corporation MP Filtri (Canada) Parker Hannifin Canada Pneutech-Rousseau Group Stauff Canada Ltd. Wainbee Limited

FILTER REGULATOR LUBRICATOR (FRL) ASCO Numatics ASCO Valve Canada Aventics Bimba Manufacturing Co. Clippard Instrument Laboratory Durham Pneumatic Automation Fabco-Air Inc. Festo Great Lakes Hydraulics Hi-Tech Controls Higginson Equipment Inc. Humphrey Automation Inc. Hypower Systems Maritime Compressor Motion Canada Mullen Fluid Power Pneutech-Rousseau Group Wainbee Limited Williams Fluidair Corp Ltd.

CYLINDERS: RODLESS

Action Valve and Cylinder Aventics Berendsen Fluid Power Bimba Manufacturing Co. Cowper Inc. Durham Pneumatic Automation Electromate Fabco-Air Inc. Festo Great Lakes Hydraulics Higginson Equipment Inc. Parker Hannifin Canada Pneutech-Rousseau Group Tolomatic, Wainbee Limited

DAMPERS: HYDRAULIC Berendsen Fluid Power Pneutech-Rousseau Group PULSCO, Ram Industries Rotator Products Ltd. Taylor Devices Inc. Toro Hydraulic & Machinery

DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS Berendsen Fluid Power MKS Instruments Omega Environmental Pneutech-Rousseau Group Wainbee Limited

DIE LIFTERS, PNEUMATIC Fabco-Air Inc. Pneutech-Rousseau Group

DRIVES: HYDRO-STATIC Berendsen Fluid Power Pneutech-Rousseau Group

RAM HYDRAULIC CYLINDE RS Made for your equipment.

Manufacturing custom hydraulic solutions for all equipment markets.

DRYERS: AIR-ABSORPTIVE Airvacox Ltée Beach Filter Products Inc. Hi-Tech Controls Higginson Equipment Inc. Parker Hannifin Canada Pneutech-Rousseau Group Wainbee Limited

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ProductListings FILTERS: COMPRESSED AIR Action Valve and Cylinder Aventics Beach Filter Products Inc. Davis Controls Ltd. Fabco-Air Inc. Festo Filtramax Inc. Great Lakes Hydraulics Higginson Equipment Inc. Parker Hannifin Canada Pneutech-Rousseau Group Skeans Engineering & Machinery Wainbee Limited

FILTERS: EXHAUST AIR Great Lakes Hydraulics Higginson Equipment Inc. N.R. Murphy Limited Parker Hannifin Canada Pneutech-Rousseau Group Wainbee Limited

FILTERS: FLANGED

Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

FILTERS: HYDRAULIC

Beach Filter Products Inc. Berendsen Fluid Power Bosch Rexroth Canada Drive Products Feldcamp Equipment Filtramax Inc. Filtration Products Corp Fluid Power Sales, Inc. Great Lakes Hydraulics Hy-Pro Filtration Hydac Corporation Hydraflow-Pumptech Fluid Power Hypower Systems Motion Canada MP Filtri (Canada) Mullen Fluid Power Parker Hannifin Canada Pneutech-Rousseau Group PQ Systems Ltd. Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited Williams Fluidair Corp Ltd. Zinga Industries

FILTERS: PNEUMATIC

Airvacox LtĂŠe ASCO Numatics Beach Filter Products Inc. Clippard Instrument Laboratory Cowper Inc. Durham Pneumatic Automation Fabco-Air Inc. Festo Great Lakes Hydraulics Higginson Equipment Inc. Humphrey Automation Inc. Parker Hannifin Canada Pneutech-Rousseau Group Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

FITTINGS: HOSE & TUBE Beswick Engineering Co Inc. Boyaux et Raccords Green Line Climax Company Ltd. Clippard Instrument Laboratory Cords Canada Limited DK-Lok Ontario Drive Products Eaton Fairview Festo Gates Canada Inc. Geo. T. White Great Lakes Hydraulics Hi-Tech Controls Inserta Products Inc. Main Manufacturing Prod Inc. NewAge Industries Oetiker Inc. Parker Hannifin Canada Patel Hose Inc. Pneutech-Rousseau Group RYCO Hydraulics Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited Williams Fluidair Corp Ltd.

FITTINGS: METRIC HOSE & TUBE Aventics Beswick Engineering Co Inc. Climax Company Ltd. Clippard Instrument Laboratory Drive Products Eaton Festo Gates Canada Inc. Great Lakes Hydraulics Main Manufacturing Prod Inc. Parker Hannifin Canada Pneutech-Rousseau Group RYCO Hydraulics Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited Williams Fluidair Corp Ltd.

FITTINGS: PIPE

Bimba Manufacturing Co. Clippard Instrument Laboratory Cords Canada Limited DK-Lok Ontario Drive Products Exair Corporation Fabricated Plastics Limited Fairview Great Lakes Hydraulics Main Manufacturing Prod Inc. Oetiker Inc. Parker Hannifin Canada Patel Hose Inc. Pneutech-Rousseau Group RYCO Hydraulics Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

FITTINGS: PUSH-INS

Beach Filter Products Inc. Berendsen Fluid Power Bosch Rexroth Canada Eastern Fluid Power Inc. Filtramax Inc. Hy-Pro Filtration N.R. Murphy Limited Parker Hannifin Canada Patel Hose Inc. Pneutech-Rousseau Group Stauff Canada Ltd. Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

ASCO Numatics Aventics Bimba Manufacturing Co. Climax Company Ltd. Clippard Instrument Laboratory DK-Lok Ontario Drive Products Festo Great Lakes Hydraulics Higginson Equipment Inc. Humphrey Automation Inc. Motion Canada NewAge Industries Pneutech-Rousseau Group RYCO Hydraulics Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

FITTINGS: FLANGED

FLANGE PROTECTION

FILTRATION SYSTEMS

BellowsTech, LLC Drive Products Great Lakes Hydraulics Inserta Products Inc. Main Manufacturing Prod Inc. Parker Hannifin Canada Pneutech-Rousseau Group RYCO Hydraulics Spencer Turbine Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

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FLANGES: THREADED & WELDED BellowsTech, LLC Berendsen Fluid Power Great Lakes Hydraulics Main Manufacturing Prod Inc. Pneutech-Rousseau Group

FLOW METERS

Climax Company Ltd. Davis Controls Ltd. Drive Products Exair Corporation Furneco International Great Lakes Hydraulics Higginson Equipment Inc. John Sherman Agencies Max Machinery Inc. Omega Environmental Pesco Sales Pneutech-Rousseau Group Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Turck Chartwell Canada Wainbee Limited

FLOW RESTRICTORS Drive Products Higginson Equipment Inc. Pneutech-Rousseau Group Wainbee Limited

FLUOROELASTOMER

Daemar Inc. Garnitures Expert Seal Inc. Hercules Sealing Prod Canada

FLUSHING, OIL SYSTEMS Toro Hydraulic & Machinery

GASKETS & MATERIALS Daemar Inc. Garnitures Expert Seal Inc. Hi-Tech Seals Inc. SKF Machined Seals & Plastics

GAUGES: DIGITAL

Anfield Sensors Berendsen Fluid Power Drive Products Furneco International Great Lakes Hydraulics Higginson Equipment Inc. John Sherman Agencies Omega Environmental Parker Hannifin Quick Coupling Div. Pneutech-Rousseau Group Stauff Canada Ltd. Wainbee Limited

GAUGES: FLOW

Berendsen Fluid Power Drive Products Great Lakes Hydraulics Harwil Hi-Tech Controls Higginson Equipment Inc. Max Machinery Inc. Omega Environmental Pesco Sales Pneutech-Rousseau Group Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

GAUGES: FLUID LEVEL

Daemar Inc. MOCAP

Berendsen Fluid Power Drive Products Filtration Products Corp Great Lakes Hydraulics Harwil Higginson Equipment Inc. Omega Environmental Pneutech-Rousseau Group Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited Zinga Industries

FLANGES: HYDRAULIC

GAUGES: OIL LEVEL

Berendsen Fluid Power BSF, Inc. Drive Products Filtration Products Corp Gates Canada Inc. Great Lakes Hydraulics Inserta Products Inc. Main Manufacturing Prod Inc. Pesco Sales

Berendsen Fluid Power Drive Products Great Lakes Hydraulics Higginson Equipment Inc. Pneutech-Rousseau Group Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

GAUGES: PRESSURE

Aventics Berendsen Fluid Power Climax Company Ltd. Davis Controls Ltd. Drive Products Fairview Festo Furneco International Great Lakes Hydraulics Higginson Equipment Inc. John Sherman Agencies MKS Instruments MP Filtri (Canada) Omega Environmental Pesco Sales Pneutech-Rousseau Group Rubberline Products Ltd. Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited Zinga Industries

GAUGES: TEMPERATURE Berendsen Fluid Power Drive Products Furneco International Great Lakes Hydraulics Harwil Higginson Equipment Inc. John Sherman Agencies MP Filtri (Canada) Omega Environmental Pesco Sales Pneutech-Rousseau Group Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

GAUGES: VACUUM

Aventics Drive Products Festo Geo. T. White Great Lakes Hydraulics Higginson Equipment Inc. John Sherman Agencies MKS Instruments MP Filtri (Canada) Omega Environmental Pneutech-Rousseau Group Wainbee Limited Zinga Industries

GEAR DRIVES

DieQua Heco, Maxon Precision Motors, Inc. Omega Environmental Pneutech-Rousseau Group Rotator Products Ltd. SunSource Tech Serv (Cnd) Ltd Wittenstein

GRIPPERS: HYDRAULIC Fabco-Air Inc. Pneutech-Rousseau Group Wainbee Limited

GRIPPERS: PNEUMATIC

ASCO Numatics Aventics Durham Pneumatic Automation Fabco-Air Inc. Festo Geo. T. White Hi-Tech Controls Higginson Equipment Inc. Humphrey Automation Inc. Omega Environmental Pneutech-Rousseau Group Wainbee Limited

GRIPPERS: VACUUM (CUPS & PADS) Aventics Festo Geo. T. White Higginson Equipment Inc. Pneutech-Rousseau Group Wainbee Limited

HEAT EXCHANGERS

Berg Chilling Systems Inc. Wainbee Limited

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ProductListings HEAT EXCHANGERS: AIR-COOLED Berendsen Fluid Power Berg Chilling Systems Inc. Drive Products EMMEGI Heat Exchangers Great Lakes Hydraulics Hydac Corporation John Crane Canada Parker Hannifin Canada Pneutech-Rousseau Group Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

HEAT EXCHANGERS: AIR/OIL COOLED

HOSE: AIR REELS

Gates Canada Inc. Higginson Equipment Inc. Pneutech-Rousseau Group Rubberline Products Ltd. Wainbee Limited

HOSE: FLEXIBLE METAL BellowsTech, LLC DK-Lok Ontario Eaton Kuritec Corporation

HOSE: HYDRAULIC

Airvacox LtĂŠe Berendsen Fluid Power Berg Chilling Systems Inc. Drive Products EMMEGI Heat Exchangers Fluid Power Sales, Inc. Parker Hannifin Canada Pneutech-Rousseau Group SunSource Tech Serv (Cnd) Ltd Toro Hydraulic & Machinery TTP - An API Heat Transfer Wainbee Limited

Boyaux et Raccords Green Line Climax Company Ltd. Drive Products Eaton Fairview Gates Canada Inc. Motion Canada Rubberline Products Ltd. RYCO Hydraulics Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

HEAT EXCHANGERS: ALUMINIUMFINNED

Gates Canada Inc. Kuritec Corporation

Baumen Associates Berendsen Fluid Power Berg Chilling Systems Inc. Drive Products EMMEGI Heat Exchangers Pneutech-Rousseau Group Wainbee Limited

HEAT EXCHANGERS: COPPER-FINNED

HOSE: SELF-STORING HYDRAULIC FLUIDS: ENVIRONMENTAL Wainbee Limited

HYDRAULIC FLUIDS: FIRE RESISTANT Wainbee Limited

HYDRAULIC FLUIDS: PETROLEUM Drive Products Kuritec Corporation

Berendsen Fluid Power Berg Chilling Systems Inc. Drive Products Pneutech-Rousseau Group Wainbee Limited

HYDRAULIC FLUIDS: SYNTHETIC

HEAT EXCHANGERS: STEEL-FINNED

HYDRAULIC HOSE ASSEMBLIES

Berendsen Fluid Power Berg Chilling Systems Inc. Drive Products Pneutech-Rousseau Group Wainbee Limited

HEAT EXCHANGERS: WATER-COOLED Berendsen Fluid Power Berg Chilling Systems Inc. Drive Products EMMEGI Heat Exchangers Great Lakes Hydraulics John Crane Canada Pneutech-Rousseau Group Toro Hydraulic & Machinery TTP - An API Heat Transfer Wainbee Limited

HEATERS: COOLANT Omega Environmental

HEATERS: HYDRAULIC FLUID Berendsen Fluid Power Drive Products Great Lakes Hydraulics Pneutech-Rousseau Group Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

HEATERS: OIL

Baumen Associates

HIGH-TEMP MASKING Daemar Inc. MOCAP Patel Hose Inc.

HOSE: AIR

Boyaux et Raccords Green Line Clippard Instrument Laboratory Drive Products Gates Canada Inc. Higginson Equipment Inc. Kuritec Corporation Mullen Fluid Power N.R. Murphy Limited Patel Hose Inc. Pneutech-Rousseau Group Rubberline Products Ltd. Wainbee Limited

Drive Products

HYDRAULIC FLUIDS: WATER GLYCOL Kuritec Corporation

Boyaux et Raccords Green Line Drive Products Eaton Mullen Fluid Power RYCO Hydraulics Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

HYDRAULIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS Berendsen Fluid Power Drive Products Eastern Fluid Power Inc. Great Lakes Hydraulics Lynch Fluid Controls Parker Hannifin Canada Pinnacle Systems, Inc. PQ Systems Ltd. SunSource Tech Serv (Cnd) Ltd

HYDRAULIC POWER UNITS Berendsen Fluid Power Bosch Rexroth Canada Dellner Industrial Eastern Fluid Power Inc. Great Lakes Hydraulics Hydac Corporation Motion Canada Parker Hannifin Canada Renum Hydraulics Ltd. Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

HYDRAULIC VALVE COMPONENTS BellowsTech, LLC Berendsen Fluid Power Drive Products Great Lakes Hydraulics Higginson Equipment Inc. Lynch Fluid Controls Motion Canada Parker Hannifin Canada Quality Control Corporation, LLC Servometer Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

HYDROSTATIC DRIVE COMPONENTS Berendsen Fluid Power Drive Products Quality Control Corporation, LLC SunSource Tech Serv (Cnd) Ltd

INDEXING TABLES, ROTARY PNEUMATIC Air-Hydraulics Inc. Cyclo-Index Festo Wainbee Limited

INTENSIFIERS: CONTINUOUS ACTION Fabco-Air Inc. Higginson Equipment Inc. Wainbee Limited

INTENSIFIERS: SINGLE ACTION Air-Hydraulics Inc. CenterLine (Windsor) Limited Festo Higginson Equipment Inc. Wainbee Limited

INTENSIFIERS: VARIABLE DISPLACEMENT Wainbee Limited

LEAK DETECTORS

METERS, POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT Max Machinery Inc. Oil-Rite Corporation Omega Environmental

METRIC TUBE ADAPTER Climax Company Ltd. Drive Products Toro Hydraulic & Machinery

MOBILE COOLERS

Berg Chilling Systems Inc. Drive Products EMMEGI Heat Exchangers Hydac Corporation

MONITOR SYSTEMS

Carlo Gavazzi (Canada) Inc. Lynch Fluid Controls

MOTORS: ELECTRIC WITH PUMP FLANGE MOUNT

LOAD CELLS

Drive Centre Maxon Precision Motors, Inc. Rotator Products Ltd. Toro Hydraulic & Machinery

LUBRICANTS

MOTORS: ELECTRO-HYDRAULIC STEPPING

Drive Products F. Bacon Industriel Inc.

Omega Environmental Wainbee Limited

LUBRICATION DEVICES

MOTORS: HYDRAULIC

Exair Corporation

Omega Environmental Rotator Products Ltd.

Climax Company Ltd. F. Bacon Industriel Inc. Higginson Equipment Inc. Oil-Rite Corporation

LUBRICATION SYSTEMS Berendsen Fluid Power Climax Company Ltd. F. Bacon Industriel Inc. Higginson Equipment Inc. Oil-Rite Corporation Wainbee Limited

LUBRICATORS, PNEUMATIC ASCO Numatics ASCO Valve Canada Climax Company Ltd. Clippard Instrument Laboratory Cowper Inc. F. Bacon Industriel Inc. Fabco-Air Inc. Festo Higginson Equipment Inc. Oil-Rite Corporation

MANIFOLDS: HYDRAULIC Adaconn Berendsen Fluid Power Bimba Manufacturing Co. Bosch Rexroth Canada Cross Mfg Inc. Drive Products Eaton Feldcamp Equipment Fluid Power Sales, Inc. Great Lakes Hydraulics Hawe North America Hydraflow-Pumptech Fluid Power Lynch Fluid Controls Main Manufacturing Prod Inc. MP Filtri (Canada) Oil-Rite Corporation Ram Industries Scott Rotary Seals SunSource Tech Serv (Cnd) Ltd Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

MANIFOLDS: PNEUMATIC Aventics Clippard Instrument Laboratory Drive Products Fabco-Air Inc. Festo Fluid Power Sales, Inc. Great Lakes Hydraulics Hi-Tech Controls Lynch Fluid Controls Oil-Rite Corporation Scott Rotary Seals Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

MARINE COOLERS

Drive Products EMMEGI Heat Exchangers

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Berendsen Fluid Power Bosch Rexroth Canada Cross Mfg Inc. Drive Products Eastern Fluid Power Inc. Eaton Fluid Power Sales, Inc. Great Lakes Hydraulics Hawe North America Hydraflow-Pumptech Fluid Power Hypower Systems KYB Americas Corporation Lynch Fluid Controls Motion Canada MP Filtri (Canada) Quality Control Corporation, LLC Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

MOTORS: METRIC Baumen Associates DieQua Drive Products Electromate Wainbee Limited

MOTORS: PNEUMATIC

Great Lakes Hydraulics Higginson Equipment Inc. Quality Control Corporation, LLC

MUFFLERS, PNEUMATIC Aventics Clippard Instrument Laboratory Exair Corporation Festo Higginson Equipment Inc. Omega Environmental Parker Hannifin Canada Wainbee Limited

NOZZLES

Exair Corporation

O RINGS

Daemar Inc. Drive Products Hercules Sealing Prod Canada Omega Environmental SKF Machined Seals & Plastics Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Trelleborg Sealing Solutions

OIL COOLERS

Berg Chilling Systems Inc. Drive Products Great Lakes Hydraulics Parker Hannifin Canada TTP - An API Heat Transfer Wainbee Limited

PACKINGS: BRAIDED Daemar Inc. Drive Products Garnitures Expert Seal Inc. Hi-Tech Seals Inc. John Crane Canada

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ProductListings PACKINGS: CUP

Daemar Inc. Hercules Sealing Prod Canada Toro Hydraulic & Machinery

PACKINGS: GASKET

Garnitures Expert Seal Inc. John Crane Canada SKF Machined Seals & Plastics

PACKINGS: LEATHER

Hercules Sealing Prod Canada

PACKINGS: METALLIC John Crane Canada Toro Hydraulic & Machinery

PACKINGS: SYNTHETIC Daemar Inc.

PACKINGS: U-RINGS

Daemar Inc. Hercules Sealing Prod Canada SKF Machined Seals & Plastics Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Trelleborg Sealing Solutions

PACKINGS: V-RINGS

Daemar Inc. Hercules Sealing Prod Canada Hi-Tech Seals Inc. SKF Machined Seals & Plastics Toro Hydraulic & Machinery

PISTON RINGS: METAL

Hercules Sealing Prod Canada Toro Hydraulic & Machinery

PISTON RINGS: NONMETALLIC Hercules Sealing Prod Canada SKF Machined Seals & Plastics

PISTON RODS

Toro Hydraulic & Machinery

PORT PLUGS Daemar Inc. MOCAP

POWER STEERING COMPONENTS & ASSEMBLIES Gates Canada Inc.

Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Turck Chartwell Canada Wainbee Limited

POWER TAKE OFFS

PRESSURE TRANSMITTERS Anfield Sensors Berendsen Fluid Power Davis Controls Ltd. Drive Products Festo Furneco International Omega Environmental

Drive Products Parker Hannifin Canada SunSource Tech Serv (Cnd) Ltd

POWER UNITS & SYSTEMS Berendsen Fluid Power Bosch Rexroth Canada Eastern Fluid Power Inc. Feldcamp Equipment Great Lakes Hydraulics Hawe North America Hydac Corporation Hydraflow-Pumptech Fluid Power Hypower Systems Mullen Fluid Power Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

PUMP ADAPTORS

Berendsen Fluid Power BSF, Inc. Drive Products Great Lakes Hydraulics Rotator Products Ltd. Toro Hydraulic & Machinery

PUMP HOUSINGS

PRESSURE GAUGE PROTECTORS SNUBBERS Berendsen Fluid Power Great Lakes Hydraulics Omega Environmental

Berendsen Fluid Power BSF, Inc. Quality Control Corporation, LLC Toro Hydraulic & Machinery

PUMPS: CENTRIFUGAL Drive Products Higginson Equipment Inc. KSB Pumps Inc. Omega Environmental Pesco Sales Plad Equipment Setpoint Technologies Viking Pump of Canada Wainbee Limited

PRESSURE SWITCHES

Anfield Sensors Baumen Associates Berendsen Fluid Power Clippard Instrument Laboratory Davis Controls Ltd. Drive Products Fabco-Air Inc. Festo Furneco International Great Lakes Hydraulics John Crane Canada MKS Instruments MP Filtri (Canada) Omega Environmental PQ Systems Ltd. Servometer

PUMPS: DIAPHRAGM Higginson Equipment Inc. Omega Environmental Pesco Sales Plad Equipment Setpoint Technologies Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Viking Pump of Canada Wainbee Limited

PUMPS: FIXED DISPLACEMENT

TORO HYDRAULIC offers the most popular brands, Hydraulic components PLUS superior sales & service ➢ Hydraulic Pumps, Valves, Motors, Cylinders ➢ Hydrostatic Transmission Pumps, Motors ➢ Variable, fixed, displacement Pumps ➢ Staffa Motors, Rotary, Gearboxes, Winches ➢ Custom built machines, Power Units, hydraulic Presses ➢ On site repair, troubleshooting, installation ➢ Consultant for Design and analysis of Hydraulic Systems ➢ Hose and Fittings, Tube bending

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Omega Environmental Pesco Sales Setpoint Technologies Viking Pump of Canada

PUMPS: PISTON

Bosch Rexroth Canada Drive Products Great Lakes Hydraulics Higginson Equipment Inc. KYB Americas Corporation Maritime Compressor Parker Hannifin Canada Toro Hydraulic & Machinery

PUMPS: PNEUMATIC

Climax Company Ltd. Fabco-Air Inc. Great Lakes Hydraulics Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

PUMPS: PNEUMATIC DRIVEN Wainbee Limited

PUMPS: RECIPROCATING Climax Company Ltd. Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

PUMPS: ROTARY

Drive Products Hawe North America Higginson Equipment Inc. KSB Pumps Inc. Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Viking Pump of Canada Wainbee Limited

PUMPS: ROTARY POSITIVE REPLACEMENT Drive Products Higginson Equipment Inc. Plad Equipment Setpoint Technologies Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Viking Pump of Canada

Drive Products Great Lakes Hydraulics Higginson Equipment Inc. Omega Environmental Parker Hannifin Canada Quality Control Corporation, LLC Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Viking Pump of Canada Wainbee Limited

PUMPS: VACUUM

PUMPS: HIGH PRESSURE

PUMPS: VARIABLE DISPLACEMENT

Bosch Rexroth Canada Drive Products Great Lakes Hydraulics Hawe North America Higginson Equipment Inc. KSB Pumps Inc. Parker Hannifin Canada Quality Control Corporation, LLC Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Viking Pump of Canada Wainbee Limited

PUMPS: HYDRAULIC

Bosch Rexroth Canada Cross Mfg Inc. Drive Products Eaton Feldcamp Equipment Great Lakes Hydraulics Hawe North America Higginson Equipment Inc. Hydraflow-Pumptech Fluid Power Hypower Systems KYB Americas Corporation Lynch Fluid Controls Motion Canada MP Filtri (Canada) Mullen Fluid Power Parker Hannifin Canada Pesco Sales Quality Control Corporation, LLC Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

Aerzen Blowers/Compressors of Cda Drive Products Geo. T. White Higginson Equipment Inc. Nash, A Gardner Denver Product Omega Environmental Parker Hannifin Canada Wainbee Limited Drive Products Feldcamp Equipment Great Lakes Hydraulics Hawe North America Higginson Equipment Inc. Parker Hannifin Canada Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Viking Pump of Canada Wainbee Limited

PUMPS: WATER

Drive Products KSB Pumps Inc. Omega Environmental Plad Equipment Viking Pump of Canada

RECEIVERS, PNEUMATIC Fabco-Air Inc.

REGULATORS: HYDRAULIC Great Lakes Hydraulics Higginson Equipment Inc. Parker Hannifin Canada Toro Hydraulic & Machinery

PUMPS: HYDRAULIC HAND Brand Hydraulics Great Lakes Hydraulics

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ProductListings REGULATORS: PNEUMATIC ASCO Numatics Aventics Clippard Instrument Laboratory Cords Canada Limited Fabco-Air Inc. Festo Furneco International Great Lakes Hydraulics Hi-Tech Controls Higginson Equipment Inc. Humphrey Automation Inc. John Sherman Agencies Kuritec Corporation Parker Hannifin Canada Toro Hydraulic & Machinery

REGULATORS: VACUUM Great Lakes Hydraulics Higginson Equipment Inc. Parker Hannifin Canada

RESERVOIR ACCESSORIES Berendsen Fluid Power Drive Products Filtramax Inc. Filtration Products Corp Great Lakes Hydraulics Hy-Pro Filtration Inox-Tech Canada MP Filtri (Canada) Parker Hannifin Canada Stauff Canada Ltd. Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Zinga Industries

RESERVOIR TANKS

Berendsen Fluid Power Drive Products Fabco-Air Inc. Festo Filtration Products Corp Great Lakes Hydraulics Inox-Tech Canada Parker Hannifin Canada Toro Hydraulic & Machinery

RINGS: BACKUP

Hercules Sealing Prod Canada Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Trelleborg Sealing Solutions

RINGS: PISTON

Hercules Sealing Prod Canada Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Trelleborg Sealing Solutions

RINGS: WEAR

Hercules Sealing Prod Canada Hi-Tech Seals Inc. Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Trelleborg Sealing Solutions

RINGS: WIPER

Hercules Sealing Prod Canada Hi-Tech Seals Inc. Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Trelleborg Sealing Solutions

SEALANTS: THREAD John Crane Canada X-Pando Products Co.

SEALS: FITTINGS

Daemar Inc. SKF Machined Seals & Plastics Toro Hydraulic & Machinery

SEALS: GENERAL

Daemar Inc. Hercules Sealing Prod Canada Hi-Tech Seals Inc. SKF Machined Seals & Plastics

SEALS: KITS

Daemar Inc. Drive Products Hercules Sealing Prod Canada Hi-Tech Seals Inc. SKF Machined Seals & Plastics

SEALS: MECHANICAL BellowsTech, LLC Daemar Inc. Garnitures Expert Seal Inc. John Crane Canada Servometer Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Viking Pump of Canada

SEALS: O-RING-ELASTOMERIC Daemar Inc. Garnitures Expert Seal Inc. Gates Canada Inc. Hercules Sealing Prod Canada Hi-Tech Seals Inc. John Crane Canada SKF Machined Seals & Plastics

SEALS: O-RING-METALLIC Daemar Inc. Hercules Sealing Prod Canada SKF Machined Seals & Plastics

SEALS: O-RING-PLASTOMERIC Daemar Inc. Garnitures Expert Seal Inc. Hercules Sealing Prod Canada SKF Machined Seals & Plastics

SEALS: OIL

Daemar Inc. Hercules Sealing Prod Canada Hi-Tech Seals Inc. SKF Machined Seals & Plastics Toro Hydraulic & Machinery

SEALS: RUBBER DIAPHRAGM Daemar Inc. SKF Machined Seals & Plastics

SEALS: RUBBER HYDRAULIC Daemar Inc. Drive Products Hercules Sealing Prod Canada SKF Machined Seals & Plastics Toro Hydraulic & Machinery

SENSORS

Pinnacle Systems, Inc.

SENSORS: DISPLACEMENT Electromate Omega Environmental Pinnacle Systems, Inc. Servo-Robot Inc. Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Turck Chartwell Canada

Rotator Products Ltd. Skeans Engineering & Machinery Taylor Devices Inc.

SILENCERS & MUFFLERS Exair Corporation Fabco-Air Inc. Festo Maritime Compressor N.R. Murphy Limited PULSCO,

SLEEVES, BOOTS MOCAP

SLIDES, PNEUMATIC ASCO Numatics Aventics Fabco-Air Inc. Festo Geo. T. White

SOFTWARE: FLUID POWER SYSTEM DESIGN Aventics Delta Computer Systems

SOLENOID VALVES: GENERAL PURPOSE ASCO Numatics Aventics Bosch Rexroth Canada Clippard Instrument Laboratory Compressor Valve Canada Ltd. Cross Mfg Inc. Drive Products Durham Pneumatic Automation Exair Corporation Fabco-Air Inc. Festo Great Lakes Hydraulics Higginson Equipment Inc. Omega Environmental Parker Hannifin Canada Quality Control Corporation, LLC Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

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SOLENOID VALVES: PROPORTIONAL Aventics Bosch Rexroth Canada Clippard Instrument Laboratory Compressor Valve Canada Ltd. Cross Mfg Inc. Drive Products Festo Fluid Power Sales, Inc. Hawe North America Omega Environmental Parker Hannifin Canada Quality Control Corporation, LLC Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

SPRINGS: AIR

Dendoff Springs Taylor Devices Inc. Wainbee Limited

SPRINGS: GAS Dendoff Springs

STRAINERS/ DIFFUSERS Berendsen Fluid Power Drive Products Filtramax Inc. Filtration Products Corp Great Lakes Hydraulics Higginson Equipment Inc. MP Filtri (Canada) Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

SWITCHES: FLUID LEVEL Anfield Sensors Furneco International Great Lakes Hydraulics Harwil Higginson Equipment Inc. Oil-Rite Corporation Omega Environmental Turck Chartwell Canada

SENSORS: PRESSURE

Anfield Sensors ASCO Valve Canada Aventics Baumen Associates BellowsTech, LLC Berendsen Fluid Power Clippard Instrument Laboratory Drive Products Fabco-Air Inc. Festo Hydraflow-Pumptech Fluid Power Lynch Fluid Controls Omega Environmental Parker Hannifin Quick Coupling Div. Pinnacle Systems, Inc. PQ Systems Ltd. Servometer Stauff Canada Ltd. Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Turck Chartwell Canada Wainbee Limited

SENSORS: ULTRASONIC FLUID LEVEL Anfield Sensors Carlo Gavazzi (Canada) Inc. Davis Controls Ltd. Drive Products Omega Environmental Pinnacle Systems, Inc. Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Turck Chartwell Canada Wainbee Limited

SHAFTING BSF, Inc. Electromate

SHIMS

Daemar Inc. Dendoff Springs Exair Corporation

SHOCK ABSORBERS ASCO Numatics Aventics BSF, Inc. Dendoff Springs Fabco-Air Inc. Festo Parker Hannifin Canada

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TAPE

Anfield Sensors Baumen Associates Clippard Instrument Laboratory Drive Products Festo Furneco International Great Lakes Hydraulics Harwil Hawe North America Higginson Equipment Inc. John Sherman Agencies MP Filtri (Canada) Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Turck Chartwell Canada

MOCAP

TEST EQUIPMENT: HYDRAULIC Berendsen Fluid Power Drive Products Eastern Fluid Power Inc. Great Lakes Hydraulics Max Machinery Inc. MP Filtri (Canada) Parker Hannifin Quick Coupling Div. Pneu-Hyd Industries Ltd. RYCO Hydraulics Stauff Canada Ltd. Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

SWITCHES: TEMPERATURE

TRANSMISSIONS: HYDRODYNAMIC Toro Hydraulic & Machinery

TRANSMISSIONS: HYDROSTATIC

TEST EQUIPMENT: PNEUMATIC

Anfield Sensors Baumen Associates Carlo Gavazzi (Canada) Inc. Drive Products EMMEGI Heat Exchangers Furneco International Great Lakes Hydraulics Harwil Higginson Equipment Inc. MP Filtri (Canada) Omega Environmental Turck Chartwell Canada

Great Lakes Hydraulics Parker Hannifin Quick Coupling Div. RYCO Hydraulics Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

BSF, Inc. Eastern Fluid Power Inc. Marmon/Keystone Canada Inc.

TUBE/HOSE CLEANING EQUIPMENT Drive Products Gates Canada Inc. Parker Hannifin Canada Patel Hose Inc.

Omega Environmental Parker Hannifin Quick Coupling Div. Servo-Robot Inc.

THREAD PROTECTORS

TUBING & HOSE

Daemar Inc. Hi-Tech Seals Inc. MOCAP

Berendsen Fluid Power Climax Company Ltd. Parker Hannifin Quick Coupling Div. Scott Rotary Seals Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

THRUSTERS, LINEAR Cowper Inc.

TRANSDUCERS: ELECTRO-PNEUMATIC Anfield Sensors Festo John Sherman Agencies Omega Environmental

SWIVEL JOINTS: PNEUMATIC Festo Scott Rotary Seals Wainbee Limited

TRANSDUCERS: PRESSURE

TACHOMETERS/STROBOSCOPES

Anfield Sensors ASCO Valve Canada Berendsen Fluid Power Bosch Rexroth Canada

John Sherman Agencies Maxon Precision Motors, Inc. Omega Environmental

Drive Products KYB Americas Corporation Toro Hydraulic & Machinery

TUBE FABRICATING

TESTING INSTRUMENTS

SWIVEL JOINTS: HYDRAULIC

Davis Controls Ltd. Drive Products Festo Great Lakes Hydraulics John Sherman Agencies MKS Instruments MP Filtri (Canada) Omega Environmental Parker Hannifin Quick Coupling Div. PQ Systems Ltd.

Clippard Instrument Laboratory Exair Corporation Fairview Festo Gates Canada Inc. Kuritec Corporation Maritime Compressor Marmon/Keystone Canada Inc. Patel Hose Inc. Pneutech-Rousseau Group Rubberline Products Ltd. Toro Hydraulic & Machinery

TUBING: ALUMINIUM

Marmon/Keystone Canada Inc. Spencer Turbine

TUBING: PLASTIC

Aventics Boyaux et Raccords Green Line Clippard Instrument Laboratory Cords Canada Limited DK-Lok Ontario Drive Products Festo Higginson Equipment Inc. Humphrey Automation Inc. Kuritec Corporation NewAge Industries Omega Environmental Patel Hose Inc. Pesco Sales

Specify CROSS Fluid Power…

CROSS

TUBING: RUBBER Kuritec Corporation NewAge Industries Patel Hose Inc.

Reliefs, selectoRs and DiRectioNAl coNtRol VAlVes

TUBING: STAINLESS STEEL DK-Lok Ontario Inox-Tech Canada Marmon/Keystone Canada Inc. NewAge Industries Pneutech-Rousseau Group Spencer Turbine Williams Fluidair Corp Ltd.

GeAR PUMPs and MotoRs tie RoD and WelDeD cYliNDeRs

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VALVES HYDRAULIC: FLOW CONTROL BellowsTech, LLC Bosch Rexroth Canada Brand Hydraulics Drive Products Eaton Great Lakes Hydraulics Hawe North America Higginson Equipment Inc. Lynch Fluid Controls MKS Instruments MP Filtri (Canada) Parker Hannifin Canada Parker Hannifin Quick Coupling Div. Pneutech-Rousseau Group Scott Rotary Seals Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

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VALVES HYDRAULIC: PLASTIC DIAPHRAGM Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

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VALVES HYDRAULIC: PRESSURE REDUCING Bosch Rexroth Canada Drive Products Great Lakes Hydraulics Hawe North America Higginson Equipment Inc. Parker Hannifin Canada Pneutech-Rousseau Group Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

VALVES HYDRAULIC: PROPORTIONAL Bosch Rexroth Canada Brand Hydraulics Cross Mfg Inc. Drive Products Eaton Feldcamp Equipment Hawe North America Lynch Fluid Controls MKS Instruments Parker Hannifin Canada Pneutech-Rousseau Group Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

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Bosch Rexroth Canada Parker Hannifin Canada Pneutech-Rousseau Group Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

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Wainbee Limited

VALVES: BLEED

Clippard Instrument Laboratory Higginson Equipment Inc. Omega Environmental Pneutech-Rousseau Group Wainbee Limited

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Drive Products Festo Great Lakes Hydraulics John Sherman Agencies MKS Instruments Pneutech-Rousseau Group Setpoint Technologies Val-Matic Valve & Mfg. Corp.

Wainbee Limited

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Wainbee Limited

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Drive Products Festo Great Lakes Hydraulics Pneutech-Rousseau Group Wainbee Limited

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Beswick Engineering Co Inc. DK-Lok Ontario Great Lakes Hydraulics Higginson Equipment Inc. Omega Environmental Pneutech-Rousseau Group

Bosch Rexroth Canada Brand Hydraulics Drive Products MP Filtri (Canada) Pneutech-Rousseau Group SunSource Tech Serv (Cnd) Ltd Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

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VALVES HYDRAULIC: PILOT OPERATED

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VALVES PNEUMATIC, MINIATURE

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Bosch Rexroth Canada Brand Hydraulics Drive Products Great Lakes Hydraulics Higginson Equipment Inc. Lexair Inc. Parker Hannifin Canada Pneutech-Rousseau Group Toro Hydraulic & Machinery Wainbee Limited

VALVES HYDRAULIC: SURGE DAMPING

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BAUMEN ASSOCIATES LTD.

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6-871 Equestrian Crt Oakville ON L6L 6L7 Email: info@baumenltd.com Web: www.baumenltd.com

7454 Speers Rd Elora ON N0B 1S0 Email: info@actionvac.com Web: www.actionvac.com Manufacturers: Airmax; ASCO; Chieftek; Edco USA Vacuum Products; Nexgen; Numatics; Pneumax; Power Beam Inc.; Vacmotion; Vibco

ADACONN Manufacturer 538 Township Line Rd Blue Bell PA 19422 USA Tel: 215-643-1900 Fax: 215-643-4017 Email: sales@adaconn.com Web: www.adaconn.com Distributors: Berendsen Fluid Power, Scarborough, ON; HyPower, Saskatoon, SK; Kinecor, Lachine, QC; Wainbee Ltd., Mississauga, ON

AERZEN BLOWERS & COMPRESSORS OF CANADA INC. Manufacturer & Distributor 1995 montée Labossière Vaudreuil-Dorion QC J7V 8P2 Tel: 450-424-3966 Fax: 450-424-3985 Email: alaric.haerens@aerzen.ca Web: www.aerzen.ca

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BEACH FILTER PRODUCTS INC. Manufacturer PO Box 505 Hanover PA 17331 USA Tel: 717-235-1136 Fax: 717-235-4858 Email: sales@beachfilters.com Web: www.beachfilters.com Distributors: CDA, Toronto, ON; Comairco, Montréal, QC; Wajax, Mississauga, ON

BELLOWSTECH, LLC Manufacturer 1289 US Hwy 1 Suite 1 Ormond Beach FL 32174 USA Tel: 386-615-7530 Fax: 386-615-7973 Email: bellows@bellowstech.com Web: www.bellowstech.com

AIR-HYDRAULICS INC.

AIRVACOX LTÉE Manufacturer 85 rue des Buissons Lévis QC G6V 5B6 Tel: 418-835-0142 Fax: 418-835-0297 Email: jmfortin@coair.qc.ca

ANFIELD SENSORS INC. Manufacturer 8831 Keele St Concord ON L4K 2N1 Tel: 905-303-8700 Fax: 905-303-7130 Email: sales@anfieldsensors.com Web: www.anfieldsensors.com Distributors: MP Filtri Canada, Concord, ON

ASCO NUMATICS Manufacturer & Distributor 17 Airport Rd Brantford ON N3T 5M8 Tel: 519-758-2700 Fax: 519-758-5540 Email: asconumaticscanada@emerson.com Web: www.asconumatics.ca Branches: Saint-Laurent, QC Manufacturers: Alado; Enertrols; Vaccon Vacuum Distributors: Visit our Website

ASCO VALVE CANADA Manufacturer & Distributor 17 Airport Rd Brantford ON N3T 5M8 Tel: 519-758-2700 Fax: 519-758-5540 Email: asconumaticscanada@emerson.com Web: www.ascovalve.ca Branches: St. Laurent, QC

AVENTICS INCORPORATED 100-5515 North Service Rd Burlington ON L7L 6A6 Tel: 905-332-0399 Fax: 905-332-8596 Email: info.ca@aventics.com Web: www.aventics.com/ca

BERENDSEN FLUID POWER Distributor 35A Ironside Cres Scarborough ON M1X 1G5 Tel: 416-335-5557 Fax: 416-335-8844 Email: info@bfpna.com Web: www.bfpna.com Branches: Calgary, AB; Edmonton, AB; Delta, BC; Winnipeg, MB; Dartmouth, NS; Lively, ON; London, ON; Markham, ON; Stoney Creek, ON; Timmins, ON; Laval, QC; Saskatoon, SK Manufacturers: Auburn Gear; Barksdale; Donaldson; Eaton/ Cutler-Hammer; Eaton-Vickers; Olaer; Sauer-Danfoss; Thermal Transfer

BERG CHILLING SYSTEMS INC. Manufacturer 51 Nantucket Blvd Scarborough ON M1P 2N5 Tel: 416-755-2221 Fax: 416-755-3874 Email: bergsales@berg-group.com Web: www.berg-group.com

Manufacturer 284 Ocean Rd Greenland NH 03840-2442 USA Tel: 603-433-1188 Fax: 603-433-3313 Email: besales@beswick.com Web: www.beswick.com

BIMBA MANUFACTURING CO. Manufacturer 25150 S Governors Hwy University Park IL 60484 USA Tel: 708-534-8544 Fax: 708-235-2014 Email: cs@bimba.com Web: www.bimba.com Distributors: Cowper, Inc., Saint John, NB; Kingston, ON; Cowper, Inc, London, ON; Cowper, Inc., Markham, ON; Lachine, QC; CPI Automation Ltd., Mississauga, ON; HyPower Systems, Calgary, AB; Edmonton, AB; Fort McMurray, AB; Grande Prairie, AB; Delta, BC; Prince George, BC; Winnipeg, MB; Prince Albert, SK; Regina, SK; Saskatoon, SK; Skeans Air Inc., Winnipeg, MB; Skeans Eng. & Mach.

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490 Prince Charles Dr S Welland ON L3B 5X7 Tel: 905-735-0510 Fax: 905-735-5646 Email: info@boschrexroth.ca Web: www.boschrexroth.ca Branches: Edmonton, AB; Burnaby, BC; Fredericton, NB; Dartmouth, NS; Burlington, ON; Longueuil, QC; Saguenay, QC; Saskatoon, SK Company Profile:Economical, precise, safe, and energy efficient: drive and control technology from Bosch Rexroth moves machines and systems of any size. The company bundles global application experience in the market segments of Mobile Applications, Machinery Applications and Engineering, Factory Automation, and Renewable Energies to develop innovative components as well as tailored system solutions and services. Bosch Rexroth offers its customers hydraulics, electric drives and controls, gear technology, and linear motion and assembly technology all from one source.

Distributor 9395 rte Transcanadienne Saint-Laurent QC H4S 1V3 Tel: 514-333-4447 Fax: 514-333-0857 Email: montreal@greenlinehose.com Web: www.greenlinehose.com

BRAND HYDRAULICS CO. Manufacturer 2332 S 25th St Omaha NE 68105 0069-0069 USA Tel: 402-344-4434 Fax: 402-341-5419 Email: sales@brand-hyd.com Web: www.brand-hyd.com Distributors: Visit our Website

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BOYAUX ET RACCORDS GREEN LINE

Manufacturer 545 Hupp Ave Jackson MI 49203 USA Tel: 517-787-9444 Fax: 517-787-7585 Email: info@airhydraulics.com Web: www.airhydraulics.com

BOSCH REXROTH CANADA

BRIM G & H FLUID HANDLING PRODUCTS INC. Distributor 1318 Britannia Rd E Mississauga ON L4W 1C8 Tel: 905-670-0140 Fax: 905-670-8246 Email: brim@bellnet.ca Web: www.brimgandh.com Manufacturers: Crane Pumps & Systems; Humphrey Automation; Lightning Pump Co.; Olaer Fawcett Christie; Rieger Sanitary Valves

BSF, INC. Manufacturer & Distributor PO Box 459 Vandalia OH 45377 USA Tel: 937-890-6121 Fax: 937-890-0974 Email: sales@bsfinc.net Web: www.bsfinc.net Manufacturers: KTR; LoveJoy; Magnaloy

CARLO GAVAZZI (CANADA) INC. Manufacturer & Distributor 8-2660 Meadowvale Blvd Mississauga ON L5N 6M6 Tel: 905-542-0979 Fax: 905-542-2248 Email: gavazzi@carlogavazzi.com Web: www.gavazzionline.com

CENTERLINE (WINDSOR) LIMITED AUTOMATION COMPONENTS DIVISION Manufacturer 655 Morton Dr Windsor ON N9J 3T8 Email: info@cntrline.com Web: www.cntrline.com

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CLIMAX COMPANY LTD. Distributor 16883 boul Hymus Kirkland QC H9H 3L4 Tel: 514-426-2243 Fax: 514-426-7126 Email: sross@climaxcompany.com Web: www.climaxcompany.com Manufacturers: Alemite; Bijur Delimon International; Cloud Sellers Cleaning Systems; Farval; Kirkpatrick Wire Rope Lubrication Systems; Marsh Bellofram Corp.; Oil Rite Corp.; Parker Hannifin Corp.; Simatec; Trico; Winters Instruments

DRIVE PRODUCTS INC. Manufacturer & Distributor

DAEMAR INC. Distributor 861 Cranberry Crt Oakville ON L6L 6J7 Tel: 905-847-6500 Fax: 905-847-6943 Email: sales@daemarinc.com Web: www.daemar.com Branches: Edmonton, AB; Dorval, QC Manufacturers: Caplugs; DMR; JM Clipper; Kalrez; Keystock; RotoClamp; Rotor-Clip; Shim Stock; Spirolox

DURHAM PNEUMATIC AUTOMATION

CLIPPARD INSTRUMENT LABORATORY, INC. Manufacturer 7390 Colerain Ave Cincinnati OH 45239 USA Tel: 513-521-4261 Fax: 513-521-4464 Email: sales@clippard.com Web: www.clippard.com Distributors: Wainbee Ltd., Mississauga, ON

DAVIS CONTROLS LTD. Distributor

COMPRESSOR VALVE CANADA LTD.

2200 Bristol Cir Oakville ON L6H 5R3 Tel: 905-829-2000 Fax: 905-829-2630 Email: info@daviscontrols.com Web: www.daviscontrols.com Branches: Vancouver, BC; Calgary, ON; Sarnia, ON; Montreal, QC Manufacturers: Acromag; Baldor; Balston; Danfoss Drives; Emco; Flowline; Gems Sensors; LS Industrial Systems; Wago

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DELLNER INDUSTRIAL INC.

129 Leacrest Road Toronto ON M4G 1E7 Tel: 416-422-4325 Fax: 416-422-4570 Email: compvalve@rogers.com Web: www.compvalve.com

CORDS CANADA LIMITED Distributor 62 Densley Ave Toronto ON M6M 5E1 Tel: 416-242-6811 Fax: 416-242-6819 Email: cords@cordscanada.com Web: www.cordscanada.com Manufacturers: Arkplas Products; Bumper Specialties; Heyco; Micro Plastics; Nyltite; Richco; Stockcap; Thogus

COWPER INC. Distributor 677 7th Ave Lachine QC H8S 3A1 Tel: 514-637-6746 Fax: 514-637-5055 Email: support@cowper.ca Web: www.cowper.ca Branches: Saint John, NB; Kingston, ON; London, ON; Markham, ON Manufacturers: Ace Controls; Bimba Mfg.; Camozzi; Exair; Firestone Industrial; Norgren; Tol-O-Matic; TRD Mfg.

Manufacturer & Distributor Subsidiary of Dellner Brakes AB 8334-H Arrowridge Blvd Charlotte NC 28273 USA Tel: 401-515-4657 Fax: 401-515-4542 Email: glenn.scott@dellner-brakes.com Web: www.dellner-brakes.com Distributors: BDI Canada Inc, Mississauga, ON

DELTA COMPUTER SYSTEMS, INC. Manufacturer 1818 SE 17th St Battle Ground WA 98604 USA Tel: 360-254-8688 Fax: 360-254-5435 Email: techsales@deltamotion.com Web: www.deltamotion.com Distributors: Engrenage Provincial, QuĂŠbec, QC; Hydraulic & Motor Controls, Orchard Park, NY; MCS Servo Inc., Saint-Bruno, QC; PQ Systems, Burnaby, BC

DENDOFF SPRINGS Manufacturer 12045 Old Yale Rd Surrey BC V3V 3X4 Tel: 604-580-3400 Fax: 604-580-3600 Email: sales@dendoff.com Web: www.dendoff.com

DIEQUA CORPORATION Manufacturer 180 Covington Dr Bloomingdale IL 60108 3105-3105 USA Tel: 630-980-1133 Fax: 630-980-1232 Email: info@diequa.com Web: www.diequa.com

CROSS MFG INC. Manufacturer 210-11011 King St Overland Park KS 66210 USA Tel: 620-324-5525 Fax: 620-324-5737 Web: www.crossmfg.com

CYCLO-INDEX Manufacturer 1129 W Fairview Ave Carthage MO 64836 USA Tel: 417-358-6136 Fax: 417-358-8629 Email: info@cycloindex.com Web: www.cycloindex.com

165 Shawson Dr Mississauga ON L4W 1T7 Tel: 905-564-5800 Fax: 905-564-5799 Email: marketing@driveproducts.com Web: www.driveproducts.com Manufacturers: APSCO; Blackmer; Brand; Brevini; Dixon; Eaton; Force America; Gardner Denver; Hydro Leduc; Internormen; Magnaloy; Miratron; Muncie; OMSI; Roper; Thermal Transfer Products; Tulsa Winch Group; Webtec; White; Yuken

DK-LOK ONTARIO INC. Distributor 6-720 South Service Rd Stoney Creek ON L8E 5S7 Tel: 289-649-1046 Fax: 289-649-1049 Email: sales@dklokontario.com Web: www.dklokontario.com Manufacturers: DFT; DK-LOK Corporation; Hydra-Zorb; Triac A-T Controls

DRIVE CENTRE INC.

Distributor 36 Horseshoe Dr Whitby ON L1N 8E9 Tel: 905-665-9137 Fax: 905-665-6801 Web: www.durhampneumatic.com Manufacturers: Airmax; Humphrey; Mindman; SNS; STC

EASTERN FLUID POWER INC. Manufacturer & Distributor 4-1120 Clyde Crt Kingston ON K7P 2E4 Tel: 613-384-8884 Fax: 613-384-8887 Email: judith@efp.ca Web: www.easternfluidpower.com Manufacturers: Beka Max; Bucher Hydraulics; Burkert; Caterpillar; Humphrey; Internormen; Parker Hannifin; Sun Hydraulics Distributors: Eastern Fluid Power Inc., Kingston, ON

EATON Manufacturer 14615 Lone Oak Rd Eden Prairie MN 55344 USA Email: marymrapaport@eaton.com Web: www.eaton.com Branches: Cleveland, OH

ELECTROMATE Distributor 15-6221 Highway 7 Woodbridge ON L4L 0K8 Tel: 905-850-7447 Fax: 905-850-7451 Web: www.electromate.com Manufacturers: Advanced Motion Controls; Amosyn; Applied Motion Products; Applimotion; Bayside Motion; Dyadic Systems; ElectroCraft; Exor Electronic; Galil Motion Control; Gam Gear; Groschopp; Harmonic Drive LLC; Haydon Kerk Motion Systems; Ibex Engineering; Intelligent Actuator Inc.; ITT Torque Systems; Kollmorgen; Lintech; Macron Dynamics; Magnemotion; Maxon Motor AG; MCG; MicroE Systems; MTS-Temposonics; Netzer Precision; Nippon Pulse America; Pacific Scientific; Pittman; Posital Fraba; Quantum Devices; Rabbit Semiconductor; Servo-Tek; Shimpo Drives; Superior Electric; Tecnotion; Thomson; Tolomatic; Wago; World Encoders

EMMEGI HEAT EXCHANGERS, INC. Manufacturer 3606 East Southern Ave Phoenix AZ 85040 USA Tel: 602-438-7101 Fax: 602-438-7127 Web: www.emmegiinc.com Distributors: Norcan Fluid Power, Calgary, AB; Leduc, AB; Red Deer, AB; Kamloops, BC; Langley, BC; Prince George, BC; Saskatoon, SK

EXAIR CORPORATION Manufacturer & Distributor 11510 Goldcoast Dr Cincinnati OH 45249 1621-1621 USA Tel: 513-671-3322 Fax: 513-671-3363 Email: techelp@exair.com Web: www.exair.com

Distributor

F. BACON INDUSTRIEL INC.

8250C Lawson Rd Milton ON L9T 5C6 Tel: 905-203-3604 Fax: 905-829-5973 Email: sales@drivecentre.ca Web: www.drivecentre.ca Manufacturers: ABB; Baldor; Emerson Control Techniques; Marathon Electric Motors; R+W Coupling; Stober

500-189 av Labrosse Pointe-Claire QC H9R 1A3 Tel: 514-630-9990 Fax: 514-630-3755 Email: sean@f-bacon.com Web: www.f-bacon.com

Distributor

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GARNITURES EXPERT SEAL INC.

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3716 NE 49th Rd Gainesville FL 32609 USA Tel: 352-373-3578 Fax: 352-375-8024 Email: quotes@fabco-air.com Web: www.fabco-air.com Distributors: Visit our Website

3275 boul Losch Saint-Hubert QC J3Y 3V6 Tel: 450-462-4663 Fax: 450-462-0488 Email: garnituresexpert@bellnet.ca Web: www.garnituresexpert.com Manufacturers: A.S.I.; Ernst; Federal Carbide; Phelps; Topoc-E; Utex

FABRICATED PLASTICS LIMITED

GATES CANADA INC.

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2175 Teston Rd Maple ON L6A 1T3 Tel: 905-832-8161 Fax: 905-832-2111 Email: info@fabricatedplastics.com Web: www.fabricatedplastics.com

225 Henry St Brantford ON N3S 7R4 Tel: 519-759-4141 Fax: 519-759-4567 Email: orderservice@gates.com Web: www.gates.com

FAIRVIEW LIMITED

GEO. T. WHITE CO.

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Distributor

1170 Invicta Dr Oakville ON L6H 6G1 Tel: 905-338-0800 Fax: 905-338-0060 Email: peterconn@fairviewfittings.com Web: www.fairviewfittings.com

1665 Turner Rd Windsor ON N8W 3J8 Tel: 519-256-2331 Fax: 519-256-6311 Email: jbilling@geotwhite.com Web: www.geotwhite.com Branches: Burlington, ON; Toronto, ON Manufacturers: Asseoat; BTM Corp.; Camco Index Tables; CPI; Destaco; Joulin Foam Vacuum Grippers; N.A.A.M.S.; Piab Vacuum Products; Robohand; Stilson; Vicas Mfg.

FELDCAMP EQUIPMENT LIMITED Manufacturer & Distributor 701 Graham Dr North Bay ON P1B 9E6 Tel: 705-472-5885 Fax: 705-472-2819 Email: sales@feldcamp.com Web: www.feldcamp.com Manufacturers: Parker Hannifin

FESTO INC.

Manufacturer & Distributor 5300 Explorer Dr Mississauga ON L4W 5G4 Email: festo.canada@ca.festo.com Web: www.festo.ca Branches: Calgary, AB; Edmonton, AB; Richmond, BC; Moncton, NB; Montréal, QC; Québec, QC

GREAT LAKES HYDRAULICS LTD. Distributor A9-5035 North Service Rd Burlington ON L7L 5V2 Tel: 905-332-1500 Fax: 905-332-9122 Web: www.greatlakeshydraulicltd.com Manufacturers: American Air Filters/AAF; Anchor Flange Co.; CimTek Filters; Daman; Delta Power Company; Filter Products Corp.; Flow Ezy; Hedland; Hennells; Hydro-Craft; Kepner; LDI/Vescor; Lenz; Marzocchi; Metaris; Nason; Neo; Northman; OMT; Parker/Snap-Tite; PCI; Peninsular Cylinder Company; Rego; Revco; SFP Monoblock Valves; Sofima Hydraulic Filters; Webster Instruments; Wika

HARWIL CORP. Manufacturer 541 Kinetic Dr Oxnard CA 93030 USA Tel: 805-988-6800 Fax: 805-988-6804 Email: sales@harwil.com Web: www.harwil.com

FILTRAMAX INC. Distributor 215 boul Brunswick Pointe-Claire QC H9R 4R7 Tel: 514-697-0072 Fax: 514-697-3453 Email: filters.sales@filtramax.com Web: www.filtramax.com Branches: Calgary, AB; Edmonton, AB; Vancouver, BC; Mississauga, ON Manufacturers: Aircom; Airguard; Beko; Des-Case; Donaldson; Eaton; Mahle; Oil Safe; Parker; Parker-Domnick Hunter; Parker-Finite; PTI; Schroeder; Strainrite; Viledon; Walker

FILTRATION PRODUCTS CORPORATION Manufacturer 18151 Territorial Rd Dayton MN 55447 USA Tel: 763-428-6415 Fax: 763-428-8659 Email: sales@filtrationproducts.com Web: www.filtrationproducts.com Distributors: Continental Hydraulics, Inc., Montréal, QC; Great Lakes Hydraulics, Burlington, ON

FLUID POWER SALES, INC. Manufacturer & Distributor 8257 Loop Rd Baldwinsville NY 13027 USA Tel: 315-638-7111 Fax: 315-638-7117 Email: info@fluidpowersales.com Web: www.fluidpowersales.com Branches: Dorchester, ON; Richmond Hill, ON Manufacturers: Concentric; CPV Mfg; Dynex; Hartmann Controls; Huade; Hydraforce Inc; Vonberg Valve; Wandfluh; Yuken

FURNECO INTERNATIONAL INC. Manufacturer 926 rue Aubry St-Jean-sur-Richel QC J3B 2H9 Tel: 450-347-2111 Fax: 450-347-2117 Email: info@furneco.com Web: www.furneco.com

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HERCULES SEALING PRODUCTS CANADA Distributor 226 Lockhart Rd Barrie ON L4N 9G8 Email: barrie@herculesca.ca Web: www.herculesca.ca Branches: Dorval, QC Manufacturers: Dichtomatik; The Simrit Group; SKF Polyseal; Trelleborg Sealing Solutions

HI-TECH CONTROLS INC. Manufacturer & Distributor 7374 S Eagle St Centennial CO 80112 USA Tel: 303-680-5159 Fax: 303-680-5344 Email: info@hitechcontrols.com Web: www.hitechcontrols.com Manufacturers: Camozzi; Couplings; John Guest; Pneumadyne; Polyconn; Zeus

HI-TECH SEALS INC. Manufacturer & Distributor 9211 41st Ave Edmonton AB T6E 6R5 Tel: 780-438-6055 Fax: 780-434-5866 Email: info@hitechseals.com Web: www.hitechseals.com Branches: Edmonton, AB; Edmonton, AB; Calgary, AB; Winnipeg, MB; Newmarket, ON; Boucherville, QC Manufacturers: Paulstra; Quadrant Plastics

HIGGINSON EQUIPMENT INC. Manufacturer & Distributor 1175 Corporate Dr Burlington ON L7L 5V5 Tel: 905-335-2211 Fax: 905-335-8756 Web: www.higginson.com Manufacturers: AAA Valves; Air-Mite; Aldon Railway Equipment; Amtech Hydraclamp; Burkert Fluid Controls; BVA Hydraulics; Deublin Unions; Dynex Hydraulics; Ernst John C Inc.; Fabco; Gits Mfg Co.; GO; Gusher Pumps Inc.; Humphrey Automation; Linemaster; Magnatrol; Magnetrol Inc.; Oberdorfer Pumps; Ohio Oscillator; Oil-Rite Corporation; SMC-Full Line; Tobal Accumulators; Tol-O-Matic; Trico Corp.; Tuthill Pump Div.; Winters Gauges

HUMPHREY AUTOMATION INC. Distributor

HAWE NORTH AMERICA Manufacturer 9009K Perimeter Woods Dr Charlotte NC 28216 USA Tel: 704-509-1599 Fax: 704-509-6302 Email: sales@hawehydraulics.com Web: www.haweusa.com Distributors: Hydra-Fab Fluid Power, Inc., Mississauga, ON; Redline Motion Control Inc., Pointe-Claire, QC; Wajax Industrial Components AB; Nisku, AB; Surrey, BC; Winnipeg, MB; Lachine, QC; Québec, QC

HECO, INC. Manufacturer 2350 Del Monte St Sacramento CA 95691 USA Tel: 916-372-5411 Fax: 916-373-0952 Web: www.hecogear.com Distributors: Visit our Website

HELAC CORPORATION

10-570 Alden Rd Markham ON L3R 8N5 Tel: 905-479-3633 Fax: 905-479-3755 Email: humphrey@pneumation.ca Web: www.humphreyautomation.ca

HY-PRO FILTRATION Manufacturer 6810 Layton Rd Anderson IN 46011 USA Tel: 317-849-3535 Fax: 317-849-9201 Email: info@hyprofiltration.com Web: www.hyprofiltration.com

Manufacturer 225 Battersby Ave Enumclaw WA 98022 USA Tel: 360-825-1601 Fax: 360-825-1603 Email: actuators@helac.com Web: www.helac.com

HYDAC CORPORATION Manufacturer 14 Federal Rd Welland ON L3B 3P2 Tel: 905-714-9322 Fax: 905-714-4664 Email: sales@hydac.ca Web: www.hydac.ca

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LEXAIR INC.

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Manufacturer

2-421 Rowntree Dairy Rd Vaughan ON L4L 8H1 Tel: 905-856-9994 Fax: 905-856-9924 Email: sales@hfpt.ca Web: www.hfpt.ca Manufacturers: Argo-Hytos; Bosch Rexroth; Braden; Dropsa; Hydac; Hydraforce Inc; Kawasaki; Mico; Permco; SAI; Sheffer; SPX Stone; Staffa; Stauff

2025 Mercer Rd Lexington KY 40511 USA Tel: 859-255-5001 Fax: 859-255-6656 Email: valvesales@lexairinc.com Web: www.lexairinc.com Distributors: CAN-ACT Cylinders & Controls, Delta, BC; Integrated Pneumatics Ltd., Saint John, NB; Pneumatic Industrial Equip., Mississauga, ON; Pneutech Industrial Equipment, Kitimat, BC; Pneutech Rousseau Inc., Lachine, QC; MontrĂŠal, QC; Sempress Canada Inc., Mississauga, ON; Universal Air Hydraulic Ltd., Nisku, AB

HYPOWER SYSTEMS Distributor 117-12111 40th St SE Calgary AB T2Z 4E6 Tel: 403-214-6777 Fax: 403-243-7799 Web: www.hypower.com Branches: Calgary, AB; Edmonton, AB; Fort McMurray, AB; Grande Prairie, AB; Prince George, BC; Vancouver/Delta, BC; Winnipeg, MB; Prince Albert, SK; Regina, SK; Saskatoon, SK Manufacturers: Asco Numatics; Bimba Manufacturing; Bucher Hydraulics; Eaton; Enerpac; Graco; Kawasaki; Norgren; Pall; Poclain Hydraulics

INOX-TECH CANADA INC.

LYNCH FLUID CONTROLS Manufacturer & Distributor 1799 Argentia Rd Mississauga ON L5N 3A2 Tel: 905-363-2400 Fax: 905-363-1191 Email: info@lynch.ca Web: www.lynch.ca Manufacturers: ATOS Electrohydraulics; Barksdale; HYDAC; Internormen; Kawasaki Pumps and Motors; Lethal Strike; Marvel Filters; MOOG; MPM; SUN Hydraulic Valves Distributors: Visit our Website

Manufacturer 1905 rue Pasteur Sainte-Catherine QC J5C 1B7 Tel: 450-638-5441 Fax: 450-638-2865 Email: info@inox-tech.com Web: www.inox-tech.com

INSERTA PRODUCTS INC. Manufacturer 538 Township Line Rd Blue Bell PA 19422 USA Tel: 215-643-0192 Fax: 215-643-4017 Email: sales@inserta.com Web: www.inserta.com Distributors: Berendsen Fluid Power, Scarborough, ON; HyPower, Saskatoon, SK; Kinecor Inc., Lachine, QC; Wainbee Ltd., Mississauga, ON

JOHN CRANE CANADA Manufacturer & Distributor 423 Green Rd Stoney Creek ON L8E 3A1 Tel: 905-662-6191 Fax: 905-662-1564 Email: canada@johncrane.com Web: www.johncrane.com Branches: Edmonton, AB; Dartmouth, NS; Sarnia, ON; Saint-Laurent, QC Distributors: EDA Environmental, Winnipeg, MB

JOHN SHERMAN AGENCIES LTD. Distributor 1641 Venables St Vancouver BC V5L 2H1 Tel: 604-254-9622 Fax: 604-254-3123 Email: tony@johnsherman.com Web: www.johnsherman.com Manufacturers: Dwyer; ENFM; Marsh; Mercoid; Perma-Cal; Raytek; Reed; Weksler; Winters

KSB PUMPS INC. Manufacturer 5205 Tomken Rd Mississauga ON L4W 3N8 Tel: 905-568-9200 Fax: 905-568-3740 Web: www.ksb.ca Branches: Calgary, AB; Dorval, QC

KURITEC CORPORATION Manufacturer & Distributor

Manufacturer 409 Parkway Dr Park Hills MO 63601 USA Tel: 314-543-4000 Fax: 314-543-4111 Email: sales@mocap.com Web: www.mocap.com

MOTION CANADA Distributor 8985 Fraserwood Crt Burnaby BC V5J 5E8 Tel: 604-433-6711 Fax: 604-433-5473 Web: www.motionindustries.com Manufacturers: Bosch Rexroth; Char-Lynn; Eaton; SMC; VickersWarnick Ltd.

Manufacturer & Distributor 3181 Tri-Park Dr Grand Blanc MI 48439 USA Tel: 800-521-7918 Fax: 810-953-1385 Email: info@mainmfg.com Web: www.mainmfg.com

MP FILTRI (CANADA) INC. Manufacturer & Distributor

MARITIME COMPRESSOR LTD. Distributor 164 ch Alexandrina Notre-Dame NB E4V 1S6 Tel: 506-576-6638 Fax: 506-576-9706 Email: maritimecompressorltd@rogers.com Web: www.maritimecompressorltd.com Distributors: Champion Compressors, Mississauga, ON; CompAir Canada, Oakville, ON

MARMON/KEYSTONE CANADA INC. Distributor 1220 Heritage Rd Burlington ON L7L 4X9 Tel: 905-319-4646 Fax: 905-319-4248 Email: info@mkcdn.com Web: www.mkcanada.com Branches: Leduc, AB; Langley, BC; Winnipeg, MB; Halifax, NB; Burlington, ON; Boucherville, QC; Saskatoon, SK

MAX MACHINERY INC. Manufacturer 33A Healdsburg Ave Healdsburg CA 95448 USA Tel: 707-433-2662 Fax: 707-433-1818 Email: info@maxmachinery.com Web: www.maxmachinery.com Distributors: Cancoppas Ltd., Mississauga, ON; Flotech Controls, Regina, SK

MAXON PRECISION MOTORS, INC. Manufacturer 101 Waldron Rd Fall River MA 2720 USA Tel: 508-677-0520 Fax: 508-677-0530 Email: info@maxonmotorusa.com Web: www.maxonmotorusa.com Distributors: Electromate, Woodbridge, ON

KYB AMERICAS CORPORATION

MKS INSTRUMENTS, INC.

180 N Meadow Rd Addison IL 60101 USA Tel: 630-620-5555 Fax: 630-620-8133 Email: hyd@kyb.com Web: www.kybfluidpower.com

MOCAP

MAIN MANUFACTURING PRODUCTS INC.

140 Roy Blvd Brantford ON N3R 7W9 Tel: 519-753-6717 Fax: 519-753-7737 Web: www.kuritec.com Manufacturers: Hose Technology; Kuriyama; Piranha; Tigerflex

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Distributor 2 Tech Dr Suite 201 Andover MA 01810 USA Tel: 978-645-5500 Fax: 978-557-5100 Email: mks@mksinst.com Web: www.mksinst.com

8831 Keele St Vaughan ON L4K 2N1 Tel: 905-303-1369 Fax: 905-303-7256 Email: mail@mpfiltricanada.com Web: www.mpfiltricanada.com Manufacturers: Accumulators Inc.; Anfield Industries; Anfield Sensors; Daman

MULLEN FLUID POWER LTD. Manufacturer & Distributor 12-49 Morrow Rd Barrie ON L4N 3V7 Tel: 705-722-7622 Fax: 705-722-3415 Email: dmullen@mullenfluidpower.com Manufacturers: Parker

N.R. MURPHY LIMITED Manufacturer 430 Franklin Blvd Cambridge ON N1R 8G6 Tel: 519-621-6210 Fax: 519-621-2841 Email: 4nodust@nrmurphy.com Web: www.nrmurphy.com

NASH, A GARDNER DENVER PRODUCT Manufacturer & Distributor 200 Simko Blvd Charleroi PA 15022 USA Tel: 724-239-1500 Fax: 724-239-1502 Web: www.gdnash.com Distributors: Austin & Denholm, Calgary, AB; Delta, BC; Glenco Products Inc., Oakville, ON

NEWAGE INDUSTRIES, INC. Manufacturer 145 James Way Southampton PA 18966 USA Tel: 215-526-2300 Fax: 215-526-2190 Email: info@newageindustries.com Web: www.newageindustries.com

OETIKER INC. Manufacturer 6317 Euclid St Marlette MI 48453 USA Tel: 989-635-3621 Fax: 989-635-2157 Email: info@us.oetiker.com Web: www.oetiker.com Branches: Alliston, ON

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PNEU-HYD INDUSTRIES LTD.

Manufacturer

Manufacturer & Distributor

4325 Clipper Dr Manitowoc WI 54221 1207-1207 USA Tel: 920-682-6173 Fax: 920-682-7699 Email: sales@oilrite.com Web: www.oilrite.com Distributors: Higginson Equipment Sales, Burlington, ON; Howard Marten Fluid Tech Inc., Pickering, ON; Labelle Lube, Laval, QC

5 Pinelands Ave Stoney Creek ON L8E 3A4 Tel: 905-664-9333 Fax: 905-664-4334 Web: www.pneuhyd.com

OMEGA ENVIRONMENTAL Manufacturer 976 rue Bergar Laval QC H7L 5A1 Tel: 514-856-6928 Fax: 514-856-6886 Email: info@omega.ca Web: www.omega.ca

RENUM HYDRAULICS LTD. PNEUTECH-ROUSSEAU GROUP INC. Manufacturer & Distributor 15-1081 Meyerside Dr Mississauga ON L5T 1M4 Tel: 905-565-6403 Fax: 905-565-6417 Email: sales@pneutech-rousseau.com Web: www.pneutechrousseau.com Branches: Kitimat, BC; Barrie, ON; Chicoutimi, QC; Lachine, QC; Québec, QC Distributors: AKG ; Barksdale ; Canfield ; Comatrol ; Cox Reels ; Duff Norton ; Enerpac ; Farfield ; Haldex/Concentric ; Hamlet ; Hanna ; Humphrey ; Ingersoll Rand ; Parker Hannifin ; PIAB ; Poclain ; Stauff

PARKER HANNIFIN CANADA Manufacturer 160 Chisholm Dr Milton ON L9T 3G9 Tel: 905-693-3000 Fax: 905-876-0788 Email: pcdmktg@parker.com Web: www.parker.com/canada Branches: Calgary, AB; Winnipeg, MB; Fergus, ON; Grimsby, ON; Dorval, QC

PQ SYSTEMS LTD. Distributor A2-5279 Stillcreek Ave Burnaby BC V5C 5V1 Tel: 604-299-0022 Fax: 604-299-8453 Email: info@pqsystemsltd.com Web: www.pqsystemsltd.com Manufacturers: Delta Computer Systems; Duplomatic; Exlar; Hydraforce; MOOG; MTS-Temposonics; PQS Servolife; Ross Controls

PARKER HANNIFIN QUICK COUPLING DIVISION/SNAP-TITE

PULSCO, INC.

Manufacturer

17945 Sky Park Circle, Suite G Irvine CA 92614 USA Tel: 949-261-1717 Fax: 949-975-0532 Email: sales@pulsco.com Web: www.pulsco.com

8145 Lewis Rd Minneapolis MN 55427 USA Tel: 763-544-7781 Fax: 763-544-3418 Email: qcd_sales@parker.com Web: www.parker.com/quickcouplings

PATEL HOSE INC. Distributor

Manufacturer

QUALITY CONTROL CORPORATION, LLC Manufacturer

43-173 Advance Blvd Brampton ON L6T 4Z7 Tel: 905-791-4161 Fax: 905-791-3599 Email: sales@patelhose.com Web: www.patelhose.com

7315 West Wilson Ave Hardwood IL 60706 USA Tel: 708-887-5400 Fax: 708-887-5009 Email: info@qccorp.com Web: www.qccllc.com Distributors: Flowdraulic Incorporated, Georgetown, ON

PESCO SALES LTD.

RALSTON METAL PRODUCTS LTD.

Distributor 3260 rue Sartelon Saint-Laurent QC H4R 1E3 Tel: 514-331-6953 Fax: 514-331-0061 Email: pesco@total.net Web: www.pescoquebec.com Manufacturers: Aquflow; Badger; Cantesco; Garlock; Generant; LMI Milton Roy; Saint-Gobain; Sterling Motors; Tarby; Therm-Omega-Tech; Zook

Manufacturer 50 Watson Rd S Guelph ON N1L 1E2 Tel: 519-836-2968 Fax: 519-836-9763 Email: service@ralstonmetal.com Web: www.ralstonmetal.com

Manufacturer & Distributor 6-12 Douglas Rd Uxbridge ON L9P 1S9 Tel: 905-852-1929 Fax: 905-852-1861 Email: info@rostainc.com Web: www.rostainc.com Manufacturers: Rosta; Venanzetti Vibrazioni; Vibrachoc/Paulstra

ROTATOR PRODUCTS LTD. Distributor 8-101 Innovation Dr Woodbridge ON L4H 0S3 Tel: 905-856-2653 Fax: 905-856-3407 Web: www.rotatorproducts.com Branches: Pierrefonds, QC Manufacturers: Conductix Wampfler; Eaton; Hycomp; Johnson Power; Magnetek; Oil Skimmers; Poona Couplings; R&M Material HDLG; Reuland; Rexnord Falk; Ringfeder; System Components

RUBBERLINE PRODUCTS LTD. Distributor 81 Bleams Rd Kitchener ON N2C 2G2 Tel: 519-894-0400 Fax: 519-894-9940 Email: sales@rubberline.ca Web: www.rubberline.com Branches: Brantford, ON; Cambridge, ON; Guelph, ON; Mississauga, ON Manufacturers: Allied Witan; American Biltrite; Asco Numatics; Crouzet; Deltrol; Dixon; Dorcor; Eaton; Flexco; Freelin Wade; Garlock; Gates; Habasit; Kuritec; Lactite; Norgren; Nycoil; Reelcraft; Sheffer; Tigerflex; Vibco; Winters

RYCO HYDRAULICS, INC. Manufacturer 1616 Greens Rd Houston TX 77032 USA Tel: 281-821-4100 Fax: 281-821-4300 Web: www.ryco.com.au Branches: Aurora, ON

5858 Centerville Rd St. Paul MN 55127 USA Tel: 651-925-5620 Fax: 651-653-0989 Email: info@safewayhyd.com Web: www.safewayhyd.com

PO Box 100088 Pittsburgh PA 15233 USA Tel: 412-262-3950 Fax: 412-262-4055 Email: sales@pinnaclesystems.com Web: www.pinnaclesystems.com Distributors: Metal Form Products Co., Pickering, ON

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RAM INDUSTRIES INC.

B7-461 North Service Rd W Oakville ON L6M 2V5 Tel: 905-847-6700 Fax: 905-847-0272 Web: www.plad.com Branches: Vancouver, BC; Montréal, QC; Quebec City, QC Manufacturers: Albany; Barnes; Corcoran; Deming; Grundfos; Iron Pump; National Pump Torishima; SPP; Thrush; VArisco; Weinman; Wilo

33 York Rd E Yorkton SK S3N 3Z4 Tel: 306-786-2677 Fax: 306-786-2651 Email: sales@ramindustries.com Web: www.ramindustries.com

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200 Wilkinson Rd Units 11-12 Brampton ON L6T 4M4 Tel: 905-457-6754 Fax: 905-457-1656 Email: chris@renumhydraulics.com Web: www.renumhydraulics.com Manufacturers: EDI; Marzocchi; Misselli; Oilcontrol; Omal; OMFB; OT Pumps; Vivolo

SAFEWAY HYDRAULICS

PINNACLE SYSTEMS, INC.

PLAD EQUIPMENT LTD.

Manufacturer & Distributor

Manufacturer

301 Franklin St. Olean NY 14760 USA Tel: 716-376-0708 Fax: 716-372-1777 Email: sales@scottrotaryseals.com Web: www.scottrotaryseals.com

SERVO-ROBOT INC. Manufacturer 1370 rue Hocquart Saint-Bruno QC J3V 6E1 Tel: 450-653-7868 Fax: 450-653-7869 Email: info@servorobot.com Web: www.servorobot.com

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TOLOMATIC, INC.

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Manufacturer

501 Little Falls Rd Cedar Grove NJ 07009 1291-1291 USA Tel: 973-785-4630 Fax: 973-785-0756 Email: info@servometer.com Web: www.servometer.com

3800 County Rd 116 Hamel MN 55340 USA Tel: 763-478-8000 Fax: 763-478-8080 Email: sales@tolomatic.com Web: www.tolomatic.com Distributors: Cowper, Inc., Kingston, ON; Cowper, Inc, London, ON; Cowper, Inc., Markham, ON; Lachine, QC; Electromate Industrial Sales, Woodbridge, ON; Skeans Engineering, Calgary, AB; Edmonton, AB; Coquitlam, BC; Prince George, BC

SETPOINT TECHNOLOGIES Distributor 10393 Sinclair Dr Ilderton ON N0M 2A0 Tel: 519-666-3363 Fax: 519-666-3365 Email: info@setpointtech.com Web: www.setpointtech.com Manufacturers: Ernst John C Inc.; Lake Monitors; Marwin; Oberdorfer; Oseco; Price Pump; Pulsafeeder; Quest-Tec; Sure Seal

SKEANS ENGINEERING & MACHINERY LTD. Distributor 1900 Brigantine Dr Coquitlam BC V3K 7B5 Tel: 604-777-4247 Fax: 604-777-1900 Email: skeans@skeans.com Web: www.skeans.com Branches: Winnipeg, MB; Calgary, AB; Edmonton, AB; Saskatoon, SK; Prince George, BC Manufacturers: Bimba Mfg; Colder Couplings; CPC; Enidine Shock Absorbers; Galland Henning Nopak; Gardner Denver; Hansen/Eaton; Horner PLC’s; ITT; Legris Fittings; Leuze Sensors; Mac Valves; Mattei Compressors; Murr Elektronik; PHD Cylinders; Piab Vacuum Pumps; Tolomatic Cylinders; Transair Piping Systems; TRD Cylinders; Wilkerson FRL’s

SKF MACHINED SEALS & PLASTICS Manufacturer 5777 Coopers Ave Mississauga ON L4Z 1R9 Tel: 905-712-1600 Fax: 905-712-1606 Email: canada.sales@economos.com Web: www.skf.ca

SPENCER TURBINE Manufacturer 600 Day Hill Rd Windsor CT 6095 USA Tel: 860-688-8361 Fax: 860-688-0098 Email: marketing@spencer-air.com Web: www.spencerturbine.com Distributors: Acme Vacuum Co., Saint-Laurent, QC; Blower + Vacuum Technology, Edmonton, AB; ClearTech Industries, Mississauga, ON; eda Environmental, Winnipeg, MB

TORO HYDRAULIC & MACHINERY INC. Manufacturer & Distributor 15-1415 Bonhill Rd Mississauga ON L5T 1R2 Tel: 905-565-8887 Fax: 905-565-5788 Email: sales@torohyd.com Web: www.torohyd.com Manufacturers: Yuken (Japan) Company Profile:Full-line fluid power sales & service to most hydraulic & pneumatic systems. Authorized distritutor.

TRELLEBORG SEALING SOLUTIONS Manufacturer 2531 Bremer Rd Fort Wayne IN 46803 USA Tel: 260-749-9631 Fax: 260-749-4844 Email: tssusa@trelleborg.com Web: www.tss.trelleborg.com/us

TTP - AN API HEAT TRANSFER COMPANY Manufacturer 5215 21st St Racine WI 53406 USA Email: ttpsales@apiheattransfer.com Web: www.thermaltransfer.com Distributors: Drive Products Inc., Mississauga, ON

TURCK CHARTWELL CANADA INC. Manufacturer & Distributor 1-140 Duffield Dr Markham ON L6G 1B5 Tel: 905-513-7100 Fax: 905-513-7101 Email: sales@chartwell.ca Web: www.chartwell.ca

VAL-MATIC VALVE & MFG. CORP. Manufacturer

STAUFF CANADA LTD. Manufacturer & Distributor 866 Milner Ave Scarborough ON M1B 5N7 Tel: 416-282-4608 Fax: 416-282-3039 Email: sales@stauffcanada.com Web: www.stauffcanada.com Branches: Edmonton, AB

SUNSOURCE TECHNOLOGY SERVICES (CANADA) LIMITED Distributor 47-49-6535 Millcreek Dr Mississauga ON L5N 2M2 Tel: 905-821-4230 Fax: 905-821-4879 Web: www.sun-source.com

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Manufacturer & Distributor 661 Grove Ave Windsor ON N9A 6M3 Tel: 519-256-5438 Fax: 519-256-5070 Email: cinfo@idexcorp.com Web: www.vikingpumpcanada.com Branches: Edmonton, AB; Vancouver, BC; Toronto, ON; Montreal, QC Manufacturers: Corken; Griswold; Grundfos; Liquid Controls; Micropump; Monoflo; Pulsafeeder; Richter; Rotech; Top Line; Travaini; Viking Pump; Warren Rupp; Wright Flow Technologies Distributors: Industrial Pump Systems, Sudbury, ON; IRC Equipment Inc., Mount Pearl, NL; Kemtag Enterprises Ltd., Moncton, NB

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WAINBEE LIMITED Manufacturer & Distributor 5789 Coopers Ave Mississauga ON L4Z 3S6 Tel: 905-568-1700 Fax: 905-568-0083 Email: marketing@wainbee.com Web: www.wainbee.com Branches: Calgary, AB; Edmonton, AB; Prince George, BC; Vancouver, BC; Winnipeg, MB; Halifax, NS; Kitchener, ON; Chicoutimi, QC; Montreal, QC; Québec, QC; Saskatoon, SK Manufacturers: AC Tech; Ametek; Bucher; BuTech; Cervis; Chicago Pneumatic; Clippard; Colder; Cooper Power Tools; De-StaCo; Desoutter; Durant; Fluidsentry; Gast Manufacturing; Haskel; Hy-Pneu-Mat; Hydreco; Ingersoll Rand; Jun-Air; Parker Hannifin; Proportion Air; Titan; Vacuforce

WILLIAMS FLUIDAIR CORPORATION LIMITED

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1018 Salk Rd Pickering ON L1W 3C5 Tel: 905-831-3222 Fax: 905-831-3284 Email: service@williamsfluidair.com Web: www.williamsfluidair.com Manufacturers: Benteler Steel & Tube; Custom Actuator; Gates Hydraulics; Pitanco Gauges; RSB Tube Clamps; SSP Adapters; Voss GMBH

500 Southard St Trenton NJ 08638 USA Tel: 609-394-0150 Fax: 609-989-4847 Email: sales@xpando.com Web: www.xpando.com Distributors: Cimco, Toronto, ON; Crane Supply, Ottawa, ON; Drennan Refrigeration, London, ON; Fix-Air, Laval, QC; J.L. Wilson & Sons, Toronto, ON; Refri-Ozone, Granby, QC; Refrigeration Components, Brantford, ON; Refrigeration Supply, Burnaby, BC; Western Plumbing & Heating, Dartmouth, NS

WITTENSTEIN Manufacturer 1249 Humbracht Cir Bartlett IL 60103 USA Tel: 630-540-5300 Fax: 630-736-6100 Email: info@wittenstein-us.com Web: www.wittenstein-us.com Branches: Waterdown, ON

ZINGA INDUSTRIES Manufacturer 2400 Zinga Dr Reedsburg WI 53959 USA Tel: 608-524-4200 Fax: 608-524-4220 Email: zinga@zinga.com Web: www.zinga.com Distributors: CFA Industries Inc., Aurora, ON

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Festo Canada, Inc.

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Harting Canada Inc.

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Hawk Ridge Systems

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Toro Hydraulics & Machinery

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Henkel Loctite

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Unitronics Inc.

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Hercules Sealing Products Canada

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