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Fluid Power Vehicle Challenge

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 Action Challenge

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…
Collaboration

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…