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Machine safety
Banner Engineering Corp., Minneapolis, Minn.

The company's 2006–07 machine safety products catalog has more than 300 full-color pages, organized into seven main sections: safety light screens, two-hand control modules, safety modules, safety interlock switches, emergency stop devices, accessories, and reference. The catalog opens with the What's New section, which includes additions to the EZ-Screen Series safety light screens, and Pico-Guard fiber optic safety systems.

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Safety net- working
Ifm Efector Inc., Exton, Pa.
The company's AS-interface and Safety at Work free catalog offers more than 175 product solutions for actuator sensor interface and safety networking. The 120-page publication covers basic system structures, connection options, and decentralized automation. It also provides information on the transmission principle, component options, and configuration software. In addition, there is data on controllers, gateways, network extensions, power supplies, modules, sensors, and accessories.

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Lifting and positioning
Southworth Products Corp., Portland, Maine
A 16-page brochure describes this company's lifting and positioning equipment for materials handling. It covers such items as work positioning tables, special use lift tables, container tilters, pallet handling equipment, and portable and custom lifts. The company's work positioning tables aid machine feeding and offloading, product assembly, and other operations in manufacturing, warehousing, and distribution facilities. The special use lift tables have increased load capacities, extra-long or extra-wide platforms, extended vertical travel, and features for heavy-duty work and other specialized applications.

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Film technology
Bayer Film Americas, Berlin, Conn.
This division of Sheffield Plastics Inc. has a 10-page brochure describing its Makrofol and Bayfol polycarbonate film technology. Makrofol and Bayfol provide stability and durability with lot-to-lot consistency for a variety of applications, according to the manufacturer. Makrofol, made with Bayer Makrolon polycarbonate resin, offers high light transmittance, surface uniformity, and ease of processing. Bayfol provides improved mechanical and chemical resistant properties.

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Mechan- ical compo- nents
Misumi USA, Schaumburg, Ill.
The company has metric and inch versions of its new free catalogs, for machine builders, fabricators, job shops, system integrators, and end users. More than 200,000 mechanical and structural components are shown with prices, and most are offered in custom configurations to meet most applications. A designer can access Misumi CAD files, create a custom part, then download a native CAD file directly into an assembly drawing. There is no custom tooling cost. The two catalogs being offered comprise more than 2,500 pages of information and drawings.

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