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Biofuels: a Challenge to Fuel Seal Elastomers?
alone could potentially represent 10% of world gasoline by 2025. Biodiesel fuel facilities. Current US biodiesel capacity across 171 production plants is 12.5 billion liters, although only 2.4 billion liters are expected to be produced in 2008 because of record feedstock prices (Source: National
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How to develop a soft touch
. The complex mold uses eight slides to form about 1,100 holes in the filter. Precision control of resin injection was key. An overmolded Versaflex 6050X TPE from GLS Corp., McHenry Ill., gives an ergonomic, tactile grip to a palm-sized sander from National Detroit Inc., Rockford Ill. Perhaps the best
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Time For The Main Event -- NDES 2000
Now in it's 48th year, the National Design Engineering Show (NDES) takes place March 13 through 16 at Chicago's McCormick Place. The show is still goingstrong with more than 1,000 companies set toexhibit new products and services. Everythingfrom CAD/CAM, CNC, and NC software tofluid power, motion
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Sizing up Hinges
stress on the hinges. Depending on the seal configuration, the loads can be substantial enough to bend the door away from the gasket, defeating its purpose. Multiple hinges and multipoint latching are often used to counteract this bending. One common seal specification from the National Electrical
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Weighing and Dispensing: Do it Right
Identification for Prescription Drug Packages New Technique Traces Counterfeit Drugs Inside Packaging Use Electronic Data Capture to Optimize Weighing and Dispensing Operations A National, Uniform Paper Trail for Drugs? From Underperformance to Overachieving: Culture Change at Bayer Berkeley Aseptic Blow
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U.S. heads to Hannover
and connectors, seals, and accessories. Every other year since 1991, the National Fluid Power Assn. has organized a group exhibit of U.S. companies. This year they will be located in Hall 19. Better parts, better plants. Hannover Fair 2001 also features exhibit halls devoted to subcontracting
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FDA Proposes New Rule to Automate Drug Registration and Listing
." The National Drug Code Directory relies primarily on drug listing information to provide details on marketed drug products. Drug establishment registration provides FDA with drug manufacturing, repacking, and relabeling locations and contact information. FDA uses this information to identify sites
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All-in-one air filter, regulator, and lubricator
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi It is worthy to note an MIT study calculated that six to seven percent of America's Gross National Product is spent repairing wear damage caused by poor lubrication. Those numbers are from a dow corning advertisement. Crunching the numbers using 14 trillion x 7