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Track Your Markets with NFPA’s Econ and Market Indicators (EMI) Report

NFPA’s Econ and Market Indicators (EMI) has been updated with January data. The EMI contains public data in the forms of shipments, orders, industrial production, capacity utilization, and producer price indexes for a variety of popular fluid power customer markets. The EMI can be downloaded as an excel file which gives members access to the…

Call for Volunteers: NFPA Technology Task Force Collaborative Projects

The NFPA Technology Roadmap identified a number of machine-level technology trends that are actively shaping the future of the fluid power industry. These trends include the increasing electrification, connectivity, and autonomous functionality of both the mobile and industrial machines that use fluid power in their power or control systems. To better understand these trends, and…
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NFPA Launches New Membership Category for Controls, IoT, and Data Companies

NFPA is the trade association for the entire fluid power industry, whose technology is rapidly evolving to increasingly rely on electronic control systems and integrations with sensors, data capture and analytic functions. Companies manufacturing these products and providing these services have long been included in NFPA’s Manufacturer and Supplier membership types, but now, in order…

Anti-Corrosion Composite Tubing Improves Performance for Pneumatic Actuators

This episode of Fluid Power Forum features Jose Di Geronimo & Dan Lentsch of Amalga Composites. Listen to the Podcast Here Jose is the CEO and Dan is the Head of Engineering, both at Amalga Composites. Amalga Composites is a leader in the design, engineering, and manufacturing of filament–wound, resin transfer & compression molded composite…

Career Fair with Cleveland State University was a Success!

This fall NFPA welcomed Cleveland State University (CSU) as our 7th Power Partner University. These Power Partners are recognized as universities that provide excellent fluid power education as well as those that participate in each of NFPA’s programs including the Fluid Power Vehicle Challenge. Last week, NFPA hosted nine of our member companies on campus…
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Meet a Fluid Power Scholarship Winner – Richard Misner

The NFPA Education and Technology Foundation has awarded 23 $2,000 scholarships to students pursuing fluid power related fields of study. One of the winners, Richard Misner, is attending NFPA’s Fast Track Hub Macomb Community College. We asked Richard a few questions about winning the scholarship. What does winning a Fluid Power Scholarship mean to you? Winning the…

IFPS Accepting Nominations for the 2024 Hall of Fame

Since 1960, the International Fluid Power Society (IFPS) has provided an objective, third-party assessment of skill levels and knowledge for thousands of fluid power professionals, making it the industry standard for the fluid power and motion control industries. IFPS is accepting nominations for the Fluid Power Hall of Fame until April 15th, 2024. The Fluid Power industry’s success…

NAM Regulatory Update: Table Saw Standard Would Cost Manufacturers

As part of an effort to bring more information about the regulatory and legal environment facing American manufacturers, NFPA is monitoring the newsfeed of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and will be bringing important updates like this to the attention of NFPA members. If implemented, a safety standard proposed by the Consumer Product Safety…

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: ADVANCED HYDRAULICS CONFERENCE at iVT EXPO USA

The National Fluid Power Association (NFPA) has entered into a partnership agreement with UKI Media & Events to convene and co-locate an advanced hydraulics conference for off-highway vehicle and fluid power engineers at iVT EXPO, to be held August 21-22, 2024, in Chicago, IL. iVT EXPO is an annual exposition for the off-highway vehicle design…
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NFPA Welcomes New Member: Alkegen

Extensive suite of liquid filtration media solutions to advance filter performance in the most demanding of applications. Alkegen134 Chestnut Hill RoadRochester, NH 03867716-768-6500https://alkegen.com/ OCR – Stephen Robertson, Product ManagerSRobertson@Alkegen.com

New Global Industry Briefings Available from Oxford Economics

See the latest developments for eleven major industries around the globe with short industry briefs provided by Oxford Economics. These two-to-three-page briefs include a short-written summary, output/trend graphs, and an output table. Highlights from the latest briefs include:
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Meet a Fluid Power Scholarship Winner – Sonnet Xu

The NFPA Education and Technology Foundation has awarded 23 $2,000 scholarships to students pursuing fluid power related fields of study. One of the winners, Sonnet Xu, is attending Stanford University. We asked Sonnet a few questions about winning the scholarship. What does winning a Fluid Power Scholarship mean to you? Winning the Fluid Power Scholarship allows me…