Fabco-Air offers the next generation series of pneumatic crimping tools that will dramatically lower your total installed cost and increase the overall quality level of the installation. The new Fabco-Air 300 Series of pneumatic power tools is designed to perform numerous manufacturing functions, improving product... Read More
Category Archives: Fluid Power
New from Fabco-Air: Stainless Steel Cylinders
Did you know Fabco-Air provides several of it's products in stainless steel? Stainless steel cylinders are ideal for withstanding harsh environments, as well as for wash down solutions that would ruin normal cylinders. Fabco-Air combines stainless steel with some of our most popular lines to... Read More
Productivity and Solutions For Fluid Power
For many reasons, almost all companies want to raise productivity. Getting more output with less input is a fundamental management principle. With the continuing prospect of challenging economic conditions, it makes even more sense to study your operations and seek productivity improvements wherever you can... Read More
Harrington Enhances Ergonomic Features
Harrington Hoists has added an ergonomically designed cylinder control option to their line of NER/ER enhanced feature three phase electric chain hoists. The new device allows the operator to control the hoist direction by moving the cylinder's in-line handgrip with one hand - while positioning... Read More
Clean Room Lifting with Ingersoll-Rand
Lifting heavy loads in a pharmaceutical plant may require unusual equipment. IBT supplier Ingersoll-Rand recently developed an innovative solution for a project in a drug company clean room. The customer required a two ton lifting capacity for a "food grade" type hoist. But this was... Read More
Quality & Competitive Pricing
In connection with IBT, and offering on-target quality and pricing, Norgren is pursuing the market for pneumatic actuators with aggressive pricing versus the competition - with no compromise to the famous Norgren quality. This program has been available for several months, but Norgren... Read More
New Innovative Products from NOSHOK
NOSHOK, Inc., a leading manufacturer of pressure and temperature instrumentation, has introduced two new products that will be distributed through IBT Fluid Power Products and Services. 800/810 Series Electronic Indicating Pressure Switch / Transmitter The new NOSHOK 800/810 Series Electronic Indicating Pressure Switch/Transmitters are designed... Read More
Protect Pneumatic Systems with Kilfrost
Water gets into the pneumatic system. Because it is winter and the temperature is dropping below freezing (32°F/0°C), ice is forming; which can mess up expensive equipment very badly. There's a better way to handle cold conditions on your equipment. It's called Kilfrost®. This pneumatic... Read More
IBT Has Pneumatic Cylinders for Many Types of Applications
IBT is well-stocked with pneumatic cylinders from Norgren and has drop-in replacement cylinders for products from Bimba, Humphrey, Parker, Clippard, American and Numatics. "We are priced right," reports Gary Foerschler, IBT Fluid Power Business Group Director. "And we are stocked heavily. IBT is ready to... Read More
Building a Better Better Mousetrap
The oft quoted Ralph Waldo Emerson said: "Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door." Because he lived in the Nineteenth Century, Emerson may well have been talking about real mice. However, sages and salesmen have adapted the claim... Read More
No Springs Attached for these Hydraulic Shock Absorbers
Synopsis: IBT Fluid Power brought knowledge, physics and a little imagination to help a vehicle maker solve a lingering problem. Background: New vehicles start their way down the assembly line as an automobile frame mounted on four posts. As the frames move, parts are bolted... Read More
Try Norgren’s Test Drive
IBT and Norgren have an offer for OEMs that should get your attention, and pique your interest. Norgren is a leading global company in fluid technology and a major vendor to IBT. They are extremely confident about the quality of their pneumatic motion and fluid... Read More
Quickseal Joins Tuthill Coupling Group
The Quickseal® line of leak testing, vacuum testing and pressure vessel testing equipment has been acquired by Tuthill Coupling Group, which manufactures Hansen and Coupleurs Gromelle quick connect couplings. IBT Fluid Power is a Tuthill distributor. Quickseal leak testing products have proven their efficiency and... Read More
Bag Maker Wraps Up a Win
Tulsack of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a leading manufacturer of custom printed, stylish shopping bags was having sticky problems. An eight-time winner of the Retail Packaging Association's Manufacturer of the Year Award, Tulsack offers delivery with shorter lead times than their competition and takes great pride in... Read More
ACE Products Protect
Downtime is a problem, of course. But new information suggests that an additional part of the problem is not just loss of productivity. It is also damage to machinery caused by sudden and unexpected stops. Recently released statistics indicate that approximately a third of all... Read More