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Cross Company Pairs Hughes Safety Showers And Banner Wireless Monitors
August 30th, 2012
Cross Company’s Instrumentation Group, the premier provider of safety instrumentation in the Tennessee an Northern Alabama areas, announces the launch of a safety product offering unique to Cross customers. This offering will protect employees and satisfy OSHA auditors: Updated Hughes Safety Showers combined with Banner Wireless Monitors. This combination will automate reporting, allow for centralized status monitoring, and instant usage alerts within a 6 mile radius.
Knoxville, TN (CROSSCO) August 8, 2012 - The Cross Instrumentation Group is pleased to announce a new and convenient solution combining 2 great products from Banner and Hughes. Monitor your Hughes Safety Showers and Eye Wash Stations with a Banner Wireless Monitor to have instant access to vital information, such as recent/immediate activation, water pressure, and OSHA mandated and ANSI defined temperatures.
Cross Company’s Instrumentation group has long supplied the Tennessee area’s manufacturing and...
Parker Eth Cylinder With High-speed Ball Screw Leads
August 9th, 2012
Among the Highest Force Density in its Class
Parker's new ETH electro thrust cylinder allows users to solve applications that require even higher speeds and accelerations than ever. It provides up to 5 times the force or up to 10 times the life (vs. comparable electric cylinders in the same ISO size). And its user-friendly design comes in a range of configurations to meet your specific requirements.
Typical ETH Applications include:
- test equipment and laboratory
- valve and flap actuation
- pressing
- packaging machinery
- food & beverage process automation
- material handling and feed systems including: wood & plastic working, vertical actuators for machine tool loading, textile tensioning, gripping, automotive component transport / feeding
Typical ETH Harsh Environment Solutions:
- oil-splash lubrication
- customized mountings and rod ends
- mounting of customer motors
- hardened cylinder...
Dynasonics New Portable Ultrasonic Flowmeter From Mike Moore
July 23rd, 2012
DYNASONICS Introduces an industry driven new Portable Flow Meter the "DXN"
I have some great news about an incredible new portable flow meter from Dynasonics, a division of Racine Federated Inc. The DXN Portable Ultrasonic Flow Meter is a true hybrid ultrasonic ̀flow meter, capable of measuring liquid ̀flow with multiple technologies, including: Doppler, Transit Time and Liquid Thermal (Heat Energy) Flow. The DXN is also compatible with a pipe wall thickness gauge, used to verify inside pipe diameter and ensure highly accurate ultrasonic measurements when piping details are unknown or unavailable.
The DXN automatically switches between Transit Time and Doppler Mode depending on which technology provides a better signal for process flow measurement. The DXN also includes unique one-of-a-kind features like a 7” full color touch-screen, the ability to store site-specific settings using plain text with the ability to export via a USB drive for flow measurement...
Dynasonics New Portable Ultrasonic Flowmeter From Buck Malphrus
July 23rd, 2012
DYNASONICS Introduces an industry driven new Portable Flow Meter the "DXN"
I have some great news about an incredible new portable flow meter from Dynasonics, a division of Racine Federated Inc. The DXN Portable Ultrasonic Flow Meter is a true hybrid ultrasonic ̀flow meter, capable of measuring liquid ̀flow with multiple technologies, including: Doppler, Transit Time and Liquid Thermal (Heat Energy) Flow. The DXN is also compatible with a pipe wall thickness gauge, used to verify inside pipe diameter and ensure highly accurate ultrasonic measurements when piping details are unknown or unavailable.
The DXN automatically switches between Transit Time and Doppler Mode depending on which technology provides a better signal for process flow measurement. The DXN also includes unique one-of-a-kind features like a 7” full color touch-screen, the ability to store site-specific settings using plain text with the ability to export via a USB drive for flow...
Yaskawa Motoman Partners With Cross
July 11th, 2012
Subject: The Automation Group signs on Motoman for its 7 state coverage area
The Automation Group at Cross and Yaskawa Motoman recently became partners in the southeastern coverage area for Cross including Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Tennessee. Motoman has a great reputation for innovation and quality in the industrial robotics industry and serves current Cross markets including Packaging, Palletizing, Dispensing, Pick & Place, Machine / Press Tending, and Assembly.
Motoman Robotics is a division of Yaskawa America, Inc., the world leader in robotics, and operates in North and South America. Motoman's proven track record of delivering industry leading quality, innovation and customer satisfaction can help you exceed your robotic automation goals.
July 18, 2012 Cross and Yaskawa Motoman will be hosting a Robotic Technology Fair at the new Alabama Robotic Technology Park in Tanner, AL, near Decatur. For additional...
May 4th, 2012
Continental Disc Corporation announces the launch of its newest products which enhance their industry-leading HPX® rupture disc product line: the SANITRX HPX® II Rupture Disc and the HPX® Double Disc Holder.
The SANITRX HPX® II Rupture Disc is a semicircular, scored, reverse acting rupture disc designed specifically for applications in the pharmaceutical, food & beverage and biotech industries that require pressures above our SANITRX HPX® Rupture Disc. Available in sizes 1 ½” to 4,” this rupture disc is available to fit between standard sanitary ferrules, NA CONNECT® flanges or SANITRX® fittings. SANITRX HPX® II rupture discs are shipped in sanitary, environmentally friendly, non-toxic packaging.
Common applications for the new SANITRX HPX® II Rupture Disc product include: filters, autoclaves, bioreactors, process vessels, heat exchangers, storage & transport vessels, fermenters, clean steam piping, WFI vessels & piping, CIP & SIP skids and piping, lyophilizers...
Rig Protection Device Protecting Personnel From Hazardous Gases
May 4th, 2012
The Rig Protector package is a wireless detection and monitoring system that warns of hazardous gas levels. The compact, easy-to-install package critically monitors up to four points and can transmit data as far as 3 miles. It is ideally suited for detecting and monitoring gases to include hydrogen sulfide, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, ammonia and certain combustibles. Flexible mounting and power supply options make it suitable for monitoring perimeters, mobile work sites including HAZMAT facilities, rigs, disaster responses, and many more.
The ST-90 Quad site controller activates relays for strobes, horns, fans, shut down and other alarm events. Our ST-71 and ST-72 controllers provide receiver functions for up to 64 Channels from Rig Protectors.
RC Systems has engineered and manufactured industrial electronic products for the instrumentation industry since 1979. As critical alarm monitoring experts, we specialize in interfacing various sensors and analyzer...
Direct Lift 316 Stainless Steel Solenoid Valves
March 26th, 2012
Granzow is pleased to introduce our new 21IN series of stainless steel solenoid valves.
These valves require no pressure differential to open and close, thereby eliminating any guesswork involving correct pressure.
Other features include:
2-way normally closed design
Sizes from ½" NPT to 1½" NPT
Pressure from 0-200 psi
Valve bodies in 316 SS
High flow capacity (CV up to 23)
Extra durable FKM diaphragm and FKM seals
Available in all standard voltages
Honeywell Acquires Iris Flame Monitors
March 26th, 2012
We are pleased to share with you that IRIS Systems has been acquired by Honeywell International.
The IRIS portfolio of products is very complementary to Honeywell's line of combustion products.
IRIS Systems manufactures a range of Flame Monitoring Systems, consisting of a Viewing Head, or Flame Scanner, and a Signal Processor. These Flame Monitors or Scanners are used in the Petro-chemical, Pulp and Paper, Power Generation industries, as well as applications where the detection, monitoring and control of furnaces and boilers are required.
The IRIS product range include both Ultraviolet and Infrared Viewing Heads, single, dual and three channel Signal Processors and Flare Stack Monitors. To further enhance these products, we also manufacture Fiber Optic extensions for tilting burners, and to monitor flame in hostile environments where higher temperatures and accessibility are problems.
IRIS also manufactures Infrared Non-contact Temperature Measurement...
Inaugural North American Partner Conference With Draeger Safety
March 14th, 2012
Brodie Rudd, President of the Instrumentation Group and Dan Hines, Instrumentation Group Mid Atlantic Sales Manager, attend Draeger Conference in Lubeck Germany
Draeger Safety hosted the Inaugural North American Partner Conference in Germany this December. This event was designed to expand the relationships between Draeger Safety and their North American business partners, and to discuss strategic plans to aid Draeger in becoming the most trusted resource for safety applications in North America.