The Motor Generator section of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) recently joined forces with the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (www.aceee.org/) to draft and recommend new motor efficiency regulations covering both general purpose and some categories of definite and special purpose electrical ...

Toyota has announced that its Columbus, Ind. manufacturing plant, Toyota Industrial Equipment Manufacturing, Inc. (TIEM), will begin manufacturing the company’s line of diesel tow tractors in May. “Demand for Toyota’s tow tractors has grown steadily in the North American market in recent years. Manufacturing these products in the U.S.A. allows ...

Lo-Co Safety Valve, LLC, has developed a safety shut-off valve that can be easily retrofitted or customized to fit any piece of Industrial or Commercial fluid power equipment. The Lo-Co SMART Valve is smart enough to detect the difference between a flow surge during normal equipment operation and a line break. If a line breaks, the SMART Valve ...

On the heels of The Raymond Corporation announcing hydrogen fuel cell research applications in their electric forklifts, Nuvera Fuel Cells announces they’ll provide a PowerTap PTH-12 hydrogen indoor refueling system to Raymond’s Greene, N.Y. manufacturing plant.   The PTH-12 allows for indoor fast-fill refueling, a step forward from ...

U.S. Climate Action Partnership Call on the Federal Government to Make Changes A group of ten energy and industrial market-leaders, including Caterpillar, have come together to call on the federal government to quickly place strong limits on greenhouse gas emissions. Caterpillar Inc., Chairman and CEO Jim Owens in a release yesterday stated, ...