Latest Industry Trends Data Now Available
The National Fluid Power Association (NFPA) is the leading source of hydraulic and pneumatic industry data. Plan Your Next Move NFPA’s industry reports, outlook surveys, forecasts, and data sources allow our members to understand trends and anticipate change with a variety of trend graphs and data analysis for fluid power products, customer markets, and economic…
National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) Advocacy Toplines
NFPA’s membership in the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and its Council of Manufacturing Associations (CMA) gives NFPA members access to a wealth of information regarding the regulatory and government advocacy issues that NAM and CMA pursue on behalf of manufacturers. Check out the latest headlines and initiatives in this issue of NAM Advocacy Toplines…
IEOC Golf Fundraiser – See Who’s Attending
NFPA Foundation Golf Fundraiser at the 2022 IEOCAugust 15, 2022The Schaumburg Golf ClubRegister for Golf NFPA’s Industry and Economic Outlook Conference is best known for its premier networking, enriching educational content and, of course, the NFPA Foundation Golf Fundraiser. You can now plan your networking in advance by seeing who’s attending this years fundraiser. The Schaumburg Golf Club…
Episode 78: Pneumatic Cobots Create Repeatable Results for Crucial Industries
This episode features Jesse DeSanto, a National Product Development Manager for Cobots and Soft Robotics at SMC Corporation of America, and we invited him into our forum to learn about the pneumatic Cobots that are ensuring accurate and repeatable results in medical industry automation. Listen to Podcast Here This fluid power industry-focused podcast highlights the people,…
Meet the 2022 Robotics Challenge Scholarship Winner
Programs like the Fluid Power Robotics Challenge Scholarship are made possible in part by the generous support of industry volunteers as well as NFPA Education and Technology Foundation and Pascal Society donors. Support these efforts by making a donation. Colton Seitz of Collierville, Tennessee is the winner of the 2022 NFPA Robotics Challenge Scholarship. The scholarship program received strong applications from…
Oxford Economics: New Fluid Power Forecast and IEOC Speaker Preview
NFPA’s member hub has been updated with Oxford Economics’ Summer Global Fluid Power Report and Forecast. This report contains by-country customer market and fluid power forecasts. See the latest macro summaries and analysis of over 20 different countries with this update. Highlights from the latest report include: U.S. hydraulic demand growth is expected to end…
Meet a Fluid Power Scholarship Winner – Paton DeSha
Programs like the Fluid Power Scholarships are made possible in part by the generous support of industry volunteers as well as NFPA Education and Technology Foundation and Pascal Society donors. Support these efforts by making a donation.The NFPA Board of Directors convened in Massachusetts in June 2022 to review NFPA’s performance over the past fiscal year and to make strategic…
Meeting Customer Needs: An Analysis from the NFPA Technology Roadmap
Meeting Customer Needs: An Analysis from the NFPA Technology RoadmapSeptember 28, 2022 – 10 AM CTWebinarRegister Today NFPA and PTDA members alike participated in the development of the 2021 NFPA Technology Roadmap, a document that, in part, describes the needs of 20 customer markets across the fluid power and power transmission spectrum. In this 60-minute…
Prepare for Networking at the 2022 IEOC with Conference Attendee List
2022 Industry & Economic Outlook Conference (IEOC)August 16 – 17, 2022The Westin Chicago Northwest Register | Book Your Hotel Room Fluid power professionals looking to connect with others in the industry will have ample opportunities at NFPA’s 2022 Industry & Economic Outlook Conference. You can plan your networking strategy using the IEOC See Who’s Attending list to preview who will be…
NFPA Welcomes New Member: DGD Fluid Power
DGD Fluid Power is a partnership of specialists and engineers formed to develop new technology for use across all markets within the sphere of Fluid Power. We realized that there was a “gap” in available diagnostic instrumentation used to monitor the performance of hydraulic systems and components. We have filled that gap with new flow…
ISO/TC 131 Standards Development Continues Virtually
U.S. engineers joined their global counterparts in May/June to continue the ISO/TC 131, Fluid power systems standards development work. Nine individual working groups met to discuss ballot results, update/revise, reaffirm, publish, or withdraw fluid power standards in pneumatic control products, hydraulic and pneumatic quick couplings, port and fitting ends, hydraulic installations and systems, and the energy…