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Eaton announced its Vehicle Group’s Aftermarket division has reached a distribution agreement with Bezares SA to become the North American master distributor for its mobile power hydraulic portfolio. Bezares SA is a global manufacturer of Power Takeoffs (PTOs), hydraulic pumps, fittings, tanks, valves and other related mobile power hydraulic components. In addition to distribution services,…

Eaton announced today that its Vehicle Group’s Aftermarket division has reached a distribution agreement with Bezares SA to become the North American master distributor for its mobile power hydraulic portfolio. Bezares SA is a global manufacturer of power takeoffs (PTOs), hydraulic pumps, fittings, tanks, valves and other related mobile power hydraulic components. In addition to […]

Last night, at the LEAP Awards dinner gala in Costa Mesa, Calif., 11 winners were announced for the first annual awards competition. In the Fluid Power category, Eaton Corp.’s boom stability control (BSC) system garnered the highest award. As reported last month, Eaton’s BSC technology reduces hydraulic boom oscillation by up to 75% and boom…

Eaton has released the new ESVL9 screw-in cartridge valve (SiCV), a five-way, three-position proportional solenoid valve. Featuring a patent-pending, integrated load-sense check control, the latest solution provides a 21% manifold size reduction compared to the external checks available with many five-ported directional control valves on the market today. “As customers transition from on/off control systems, […]

Power management company Eaton today announced the advancement of its AxisPro industrial valve platform, including new two-stage valve offerings and release of its all new Pro-FX Configure software. The latest capabilities are designed to offer ease of configuration, enriched user flexibility, enhanced reliability and improved diagnostics to a wider range of industrial machinery. Eaton’s AxisPro…

Power management company Eaton has announced the newest addition to its line of load-sensing sectional mobile valves, the CLS 180. Featuring a highly modular design, the flexible valve helps designers improve machine performance in a variety of mobile equipment for the construction, refuse, agriculture and marine markets. Eaton’s new CLS 180 load-sensing sectional mobile valve […]

By Mike P. Beining, Product Manager, Eaton In this three-part series, the author will discuss how hose tubing and routing can simplify maintenance and reduce hose failure. Read part 1 and part 2 here. The Mean Time to Failure (MTTF) of a component can vary widely based on the duty cycle, installation of the product, […]

In part 2 of this three-part series, the author will discuss how hose tubing and routing can simplify maintenance and reduce hose failure. Read part one here. By Mike P. Beining, Product Manager, Eaton To correctly route and properly install fluid conveying components during a machine prototyping, follow these 10 general rules. These guidelines are […]

Attendees won’t want to miss three keynote presentations. These high-level talks will shed light on trends in the industry and where the fluid power market is headed. First up is Husco International’s Austin Ramirez, who will open Tuesday with his presentation, “What Washington gets right—and wrong—about manufacturing.” Ramirez, President and CEO of HUSCO, was selected […]

In this three-part series, the author will discuss how hose tubing and routing can simplify maintenance and reduce hose failure. By Mike P. Beining, Product Manager, Eaton The failure of high-pressure hydraulic hoses or tubing is responsible for high costs resulting from lost productivity, negative environmental effects, collateral damage and most importantly, safety. By using […]

Eaton announced that its Hydraulics team has been named a Top Performing Supplier in North America by PACCAR, a global technology leader in the design, manufacture, and customer support of premium light-, medium- and heavy-duty trucks. This is the second year in a row Eaton’s Hydraulics business has been named a top PACCAR supplier. Suppliers […]

We recently spoke with Steve Zumbusch, Director of Technology Development fort Eaton’s Hydraulics business about current and upcoming trends that he sees in the fluid power motion control market. Here are his thoughts in three key areas. MHT: How is sizing software (both in-house and offered to design engineers) changing how design engineering is being done? […]

Power management company Eaton today announced the launch of a new electrohydraulic cylinder featuring valve integration. The new product comprises a high-performance industrial cylinder, precision feedback transducer and control valve in one package to create a single-source solution offering significant cost savings over custom assemblies. “With our latest electrohydraulic cylinder, customers and distributors no longer […]

Manifolds are unique to each machine they run, making designing and building the right manifold a complicated task. Ask any manifold designer or distributor – there’s no such thing as building the right manifold on the first try. Consider the design process. An original equipment manufacturer (OEM) would approach a manifold designer, looking for a…

Eaton, Eden Prairie, Minn. offers the 4S/6S series of spiral hose fittings, which are said to feature major advancements that help provide a robust, practical and complete engineered hose-assembly system. The fittings are designed for high-pressure hydraulic systems commonly found in mobile and industrial equipment used in the machine building, mining, construction and agriculture markets. […]

Eaton has introduced its Walterscheid M-R7, an innovative cutting rind pre-assembly machine that provides customers with improved assembly technology and safety during installation of the Walterscheid system trilogy tube fitting systems with prefabricated tube ends. The solution is designed for controlled final assembly of Eaton’s Walterscheid cutting ring systems WALPRO and WALRING, and optimizes performance […]

Gear pumps are a popular choice in the hydraulics industry. Generally reliable and inexpensive, gear pumps have been getting the job done for decades. What could go wrong? Depending on the specifications of the machine you’re building, here are five reasons you may want to consider moving to piston pumps. Higher horsepower — The higher the […]

Load-holding valves, or counterbalance valves, are simple devices but critical to mobile machine stability and cost. Contributed by Todd McIntryre, Global Planning and Strategy Manager, SiCV, Eaton Load-holding valves, which are also known as counterbalance valves, are a small but important part of any mobile machine. Though they are simple in design, their application can often […]

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