Posts by Katrina Schwarz
Presentations About Advanced Sealing Technologies Available
The December 7 Fluid Power Industrial Consortium (FPIC) seminar, brought together over 60 fluid power professionals for a half day of networking and presentations about advanced sealing technologies at the InterContinental Milwaukee. The morning seminar presentations covered an array of subtopics about maximizing sealing performance, including and overview of the link between friction and leakage, the benefits…
Read MoreNFPA Education Partner Seeking Tenure-Track Engineering Professor
NFPA works with a growing number of schools, educators, and students across the country to help grow fluid power education and workforce development. One of our partners, Purdue University, is looking for an Assistant/Associate Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering with a joint appointment in Mechanical Engineering. This is an academic year, tenure track, research and teaching…
Read MoreMember News: Applied Industrial Technologies Acquires Fluid Power Sales
NFPA member news is designed to inform members of key industry updates in quick, bite-sized posts that provide only the most important information. This week’s update comes from Applied Industrial Technologies. Applied Industrial Technologies recently announced its acquisition of Fluid Power Sales. Fluid Power Sales is a manufacturer and distributor of a variety of components,…
Read MoreNovember 14 CCEFP Webinar to Feature Research Supplement Recipients
The new CCEFP Webinar Series is underway, and the next episode, taking place November 14 at 12 pm CST, will feature two NFPA Foundation Research Supplement recipients: High Efficiency Hydraulic Pump-Motors Employing Partial Stroke Piston Pressurization (Tom Chase, UMN) and Liquid Piston Gas Compressor/Expander for Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) and CO2 Sequestration (Perry Li, UMN). The webinar series is…
Read MoreMember News: Changes on ITT Board of Directors
NFPA member news is designed to inform members of key industry updates in quick, bite-sized posts that provide only the most important information. This week’s update comes from ITT Inc. ITT Inc. recently announced the election of Dr. Cheryl Shavers and Sabrina Soussan to its Board of Directors. Shavers is Co-Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive…
Read MoreMember News: Motion Industries Names New VP
NFPA member news is designed to inform members of key industry updates in quick, bite-sized posts that provide only the most important information. This week’s update comes from Motion Industries. Motion Industries recently announced the promotion of Pamela Sims to vice president of marketing. Sims started at Motion Industries in 2004 in market research and…
Read MoreMember News: Hydradyne Opens Branch in Cartersville, Georgia
NFPA member news is designed to inform members of key industry updates in quick, bite-sized posts that provide only the most important information. This week’s update comes from Hydradyne. Earlier this week, Hydradyne announced the opening of a new local branch location in Cartersville, Georgia. The new location will serve OEM customers in northern Georgia…
Read MoreMember News: Aventics Acquired by Emerson
NFPA member news is designed to inform members of key industry updates in quick, bite-sized posts that provide only the most important information. This week’s update comes from Aventics Corporation. Laatzen, Germany-based Aventics Corporation was recently acquired by Emerson, a fluid automation technology and engineering company based in St. Louis. The acquisition is expected to…
Read MoreYou Won’t Want to Miss the 2018 NFPA Foundation Invitational Golf Tournament
2018 NFPA Foundation Invitational Golf Tournament August 13, 2018 Glenview Park Golf Club The 10th annual NFPA Foundation Invitational Golf Tournament is coming up fast. Held at the Glenview Park Golf Club for the second year in a row, there are a number of reasons this is a can’t miss event: Extend your networking efforts:…
Read MoreLearn About IIoT in Next Week’s Special Webinar
Next week Wednesday, June 13 at 10am CST, Annual Conference speaker Jeremy Drury will cover the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) in a special webinar. The webinar will cover some of the background of IoT, where it stands now, and where it needs to go in the remainder of 2018. Listeners will learn more about Industry…
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