product information
Heat exchanger brochure
Tranter PHE Inc.,
Wichita Falls, Texas		 This 16-page full-color brochure features Superchanger plate and frame heat exchangers, which, the manufacturer claims, offer more efficient and cost-effective heat transfer than shell and tube and other traditional types of heat exchangers. They provide three to five times higher U values and have a turbulent-flow design that results in lower fouling. Their temperature approach capability is less than 2°F, and they are compact and expendable.
Pneumatic and hydraulic products
PHD Inc.,
Fort Wayne, Ind.		 The company's massive Catalog 2K lists equipment that includes powered slides, grippers, cylinders, rotary actuators, multimotion actuators, escapements, switches and sensors, and accessories. Also included are engineering data on the company's products and information on product application, standard delivery times, product videotapes, engineering software, and the Designer's Resource CD-ROM. The company has also set up a Web Store with product information linked to its Web site.
Application examples
Russell T. Gilman Inc., an SKF Co.,
Grafton, Wis.		 The Gilman Idea Book is a compilation of "Gilman Idea Bulletins," which contain application examples based on challenges and solutions from the firm's customers. The bulletins continue to be produced monthly and added to the corpus. The company is an ISO 9001- and 14001-registered supplier of high-precision machine components, including slides, spindles, customized modular components, and index tables.
Tension control brochure
Magnetic Power Systems Inc.,
St. Louis, Mo.		 A new brochure describes EZ-TRAC, a new closed-loop tension control. It controls tension in any unwind, rewind, or point-to-point tension zone and can control magnetic particle and pneumatic clutches and brakes or ac and dc drives.

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