PARSIPPANY, N.J. (Feb. 27, 2014) – Registration for the 2014 Hydraulic Institute (HI) Technical Meeting is now open. This year’s meeting will take place June 25 - 27 at the Charlotte Marriott City Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. Members of the Hydraulic Institute, Associate Members, Standards Partners, Utility/NGO’s and qualified prospective members are encouraged to register.
CHICAGO (Feb. 20, 201) – To honor the memory of Wendy B. McDonald, one of the power transmission/motion control industry's true pioneers, the PTDA Foundation has established the Wendy B. McDonald Award. The award acknowledges a woman who has established herself as a critical contributor to her company's success and has affected positive change within the power transmission/motion control industry.
EDEN PRAIRE, Minn. (Feb. 21, 2014) – Power management company Eaton announced the X20 Challenge, encouraging the company’s customers to submit success stories highlighting where Eaton’s X20 portfolio of piston pumps have positively impacted a customer platform or application. One story will be chosen each quarter and will be featured in the company’s X20 portfolio advertising and social outreach campaign.
ERIE, Pa. (Feb. 25, 2014) – High Pressure Equipment Company (HiP) acquired Staffordshire Hydraulic Services Ltd. (SHS). SHS has been a key distribution partner for HiP for over 40 years. Additionally, SHS markets its own line of standard and customized high pressure equipment with application in the oil and gas, power generation and other industrial markets.
JAKARTA, Indonesia (Feb. 25, 2014) – GE Vice Chairman John G. Rice and Lorraine Bolsinger, leader of GE’s new Distributed Power business, gathered with business and government officials in Jakarta to launch GE’s Distributed Power, a new business that combines three product lines – Aeroderivative Gas Turbines, Jenbacher Gas Engines and Waukesha Gas Engines – aimed to better serve the distributed power space.