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Designing optimum pneumatic systems for food & beverage packaging

August 22, 2022 By Mary Gannon

The MPA-C manifold, top center, is installed in a hard to adjust position. Proportional pressure regulators, lower left, plumbed to the manifold, solve the adjustment problem. | courtesy of festo

These tips not only adhere to food safety guidelines, but also serve to improve machine utilization and performance. By Steve Bain, Food and Beverage Industry Segment Manager, Festo Before describing the four pneumatic automation design tips for food and beverage packaging applications, it is a good idea to answer a fundamental question: Why apply pneumatic […]

Filed Under: Actuators, Blog, Components, Cylinders, Engineering Basics, Featured, Fittings Tagged With: festo

Festo develops innovative aluminum pneumatic tubing for welding cells

June 1, 2022 By Mary Gannon

Festo PM tubing utilizes standard push connectors (green center) for fast, lower cost installs compared to laminated tubing. The sleek aluminum tube requires minimal space.

Festo’s PM aluminum pneumatic tubing offers a weld-spatter resistant solution in welding cells that by every consideration outperforms both laminated and steel pneumatic tubing. Festo PM tubing is ideal for new welding cells as well as for cost-and-time efficient retrofit solutions for existing systems. PM aluminum tubing can be located closer to the welding process […]

Filed Under: Components, Featured, Fittings, Industry News, Tubing Tagged With: festo

Barb fittings for miniature pneumatic and fluid control applications

July 17, 2019 By Paul Heney

Corrosion resistance and easy installation in small spaces make metal barbed fittings from IMI Norgren a suitable choice for a wide array of industrial automation uses including dispensing systems, gas sampling, and spraying systems. They are also used extensively in Life Science applications from laboratory equipment to medical devices. A single barb design allows for […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fittings Tagged With: imiprecisionengineering

Rotary connector from Eisele conveys compressed air for rotating components

September 5, 2018 By Mary Gannon

Eisele Rotary Connector

Eisele Connectors,  a subsidiary of Eisele Pneumatics GmbH & Co. KG, now offers a new practical connector in its BasicLine push-in fitting series. The company will present its ball bearing rotary connector at IMTS 2018. This addition to series 14 of the Eisele BasicLine can rotate freely around its own axis. The new rotary connector offers a solution for conveying […]

Filed Under: Components, Fittings Tagged With: eisele, eiseleconnectors

World’s smallest dry-break quick disconnect

December 14, 2015 By Mike Santora

Beswick-dry-break-image

The ultra-miniature Beswick M3 threadeddry-break quick disconnect is manufactured from corrosion resistant stainless steel and is rated to 500 psig when connected. Buna-N is the standard seal material. Viton and EPDM are optional and can handle many types of fluids. The dry-break, or “no-spill” , configuration is a more sophisticated version of a standard double […]

Filed Under: Fittings, Valves Tagged With: Beswick

G-thread pneumatic fittings

August 27, 2015 By Mike Santora

Nitra-G-thread-fittings-image

AutomationDirect’s NITRA line of pneumatics products now offers G-thread push-to-connect fittings and flow control valves. G-threaded components are made with strong thermoplastic (PBT) or nickel-plated brass bodies and stainless steel tube gripping claws and have a pre-applied O-ring to seal. Available in 4 to 10mm sizes, the bodies of elbow fittings can be rotated after […]

Filed Under: Fittings Tagged With: AutomationDirect

Stainless Steel Push-Quick Fittings

August 26, 2015 By Mike Santora

Clippard-SS-PQ-Fittings

Constructed of high grade 316 stainless steel, these durable fittings provide a simple push-pull method of connecting pneumatic components to each other and system piping. Push-Quick fittings allow full flow through the hose/tubing I.D. with no smaller orifice required as in barb fittings. They are designed for use with both flexible hose and stiff tubing […]

Filed Under: Fittings, Uncategorized Tagged With: clippard

AutomationDirect offers additional fittings and tubing

February 20, 2015 By Rachel Poling

AutomationDirect’s NITRA line of pneumatics products now offers additional straight, branch, union, Y, reducer, elbow and bulkhead fittings in 1/8 in. and 5/16 in. tube connection sizes. Designed to work with flexible pneumatic tubing, select fittings are constructed with thermoplastic bodies and stainless steel tube gripping claws. Additional fittings with nickel-plated brass bodies are also […]

Filed Under: Fittings, Tubing Tagged With: AutomationDirect

New mini swivel fittings make precision blow off easy

November 4, 2014 By Megan Hollis

Picture of Exair Mini Swivel

EXAIR’s new Mini Swivel Fittings make it easy to adjust the position of our award-winning air nozzles. Using these Type 316 Stainless Steel mini swivels, even our mini Super Air Nozzles can be pointed exactly where you need it. Available in three sizes, these swivels provide our smallest nozzles a 50 degree total angle of […]

Filed Under: Components, Fittings Tagged With: EXAIR

Bimba introduces new composite push-to-connect fittings

June 24, 2014 By Jennifer Calhoon

Bimba

Bimba Manufacturing Company, a provider of pneumatic, hydraulic, and electric solutions, and its subsidiary Pneumadyne Inc., an innovative manufacturer of pneumatic components and control systems, announced a new line of composite push-to-connect fittings. The broad new line, which combines plastic with existing metal barbed fittings, now includes specialty items such as union branches and tube-to-stem […]

Filed Under: Components, Fittings Tagged With: Bimba

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