NFPA Is Building Student Pathways Into the Fluid Power Industry
By Eric Lanke NFPA President/CEO The NFPA Board of Directors met the week of June 18, 2018 for its annual strategic retreat. There they reviewed the program successes NFPA achieved in its 2017-18 fiscal year. In this post, I would like to share with our membership some of those successes, especially those associated with…
You 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:…
NFPA Welcomes New Supplier Member: Fluid Gear Products
Based in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, Fluid Gear Products, Inc. manufactures load adapters, custom shafts, mountings, flanges, and other custom products. The company is also a distributor of radial piston hydraulic motors, planetary gear reducers, hydraulic wheel motors, slewing bearings, hydraulic flow dividers, hydraulic rotary manifold, parallel shaft gear reducers, and worm gear reducers.
NFPA Robotics Challenge Scholarship Applications Due May 1
FIRST® Robotics and National Robotics League (NRL) mentors: The $40,000 NFPA Robotics Challenge Scholarship application closes May 1. Remind your students to apply here! One merit-based scholarship for $40,000 ($10,000 per year for four years) will be awarded to a high school senior who participates as part of a 2018 FIRST® Robotics or NRL Competition Team. The scholarship may be used to study…
Murray State Wins First Place at Fluid Power Vehicle Challenge
The 2018 Vehicle Challenge Competition at Danfoss in Ames, Iowa was a great success bringing together ten university student teams as well as judges and sponsors from eight NFPA member companies. The Vehicle Challenge is a competition that challenges students to design and build a bicycle using fluid power. The students that participated were highly…
Student Experience Comes Full Circle at Daman’s 8th Action Challenge Event
Daman Products Inc. celebrated its eighth annual Fluid Power Action Challenge by engaging 92 students on 23 teams. The last few years, Daman has been working with Bethel Community College to host the 11 participating schools. In the many years of organizing and sponsoring these events, the students that participated in the earlier years have…
Four Companies Achieve Legacy Builder Status in NFPA Foundation
By Eric Lanke NFPA President/CEO At the recent NFPA Annual Conference in Orlando, four more companies were recognized for reaching Legacy Builder status in the NFPA Foundation. When NFPA started the NFPA Foundation back in 2007, we created the Legacy Builder Award, to be given out at each year’s Annual Conference to any…
Member News: FORCE America Breaks Ground on New Distribution Location
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 FORCE America, Inc. FORCE America, Inc. broke ground on a new sales and service center earlier this month in Limerick, Pennsylvania. The facility is being built one…
Call for Presenters: Share Your Expertise at Sensors Midwest Expo
Sensors Midwest Expo October 16-17, 2018 Rosemont, Illinois To extend the reach of the Fluid Power Industrial Consortium (FPIC), the seminar series that provides fluid power professionals information about the latest technology advances, NFPA and MSOE are working with the producers of Sensors Midwest Expo to produce a focused session on advanced sensors for fluid power…
Master Pneumatic Holds Fourth Annual Action Challenge
Last month, Master Pneumatic held their fourth annual Fluid Power Action Challenge for 108 middle school students from the Warren Consolidated School District “Middle School Mathematics Science Technology Center (MS)2TC,” a half-day honors program for students from four middle schools. Master Pneumatic has been partnering with Macomb Community College since the beginning to provide students the…
Attend the IEOC Free with the Member-get-a-Member Program
We know NFPA members love the NFPA Industry and Economic Outlook Conference. Love it even MORE when you attend for FREE! Attend an NFPA conference for FREE by introducing another fluid power company to NFPA. NFPA’s Member-get-a-Member program is just like it sounds. And, who better than existing NFPA members, like you, to vouch for the benefits of NFPA…
Robotics Challenge Scholarship Winner Hired as Intern at HUSCO
Spencer Tiegs, the 2017 NFPA Robotics Challenge Scholarship winner, interviewed with and was hired as a summer intern by NFPA member, HUSCO International. Spencer will be working as a Design Engineering intern on the Automotive Design team this summer. He won the Robotics Challenge $40,000 scholarship ($10,000 per year for four years) for his work in…
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