Power tools - petrol, electric and battery - will dominate at this year's show, with equipment on offer covering all sectors. Battery power provides several benefits, including low noise, reduced vibration levels and no emissions. The Husqvarna professional battery series provides up to 35 minutes of continuous operation from a single charge of the Li-ion battery, while the saveE energy-saving mode optimises the run time to get the most out of every charge.
The series already features 20m/s chainsaws and heavy-duty commercial grass trimmers with two-way rotation of the mowing head. Husqvarna has now introduced backpack battery models for those who want to work all day without recharging.
The Husqvarna BLi 520X and BLi 940X are described as high-performance 36V Li-ion batteries. The BLi 520X has 520Wh of energy, a capacity of 14,4Ah and a charging time of 130 minutes. It weighs 5.9kg. For all-day operation, the BLi 940X boasts energy of 940Wh, a 26,1Ah battery capacity, a charging time of 235 minutes and a weight of 6.7kg.
Also new for 2014 is a professional battery hedge trimmer with a pivoting rear handle, cutting length of 60cm and a tooth opening of 30mm. It will be on show for the first time at IoG Saltex.
STIHL has introduced more advanced engine technologies into its product line-up this year and entered two new product groups to make outdoor professionals' tasks quicker and more efficient. Visitors to IoG Saltex can view an extended range of quiet, cordless power tools, a new backpack battery and advanced chainsaws, as well as more hard-working products for brushcutters. A new range of floor sweepers has also arrived this year, plus tools for construction and hard landscaping, including a world first - a two-stroke engine with electronic fuel injection that drives a cut-off saw.
Anyone clearing tough weeds from verges and embankments should welcome STIHL's new backpack brushcutter. The FR 460 TC-EM is the first backpack model to feature the M-Tronic self-tuning engine, making it easy to use and maintain. Its DuoCut mowing heads, which are compatible with all of STIHL's 28 petrol-powered brushcutters, allow the simple insertion of pre-cut lengths of line. The company has also added the FS PROTECT brushcutter trousers to its range. These tough yet breathable trousers provide extra impact protection to the lower leg.
Husqvarna has introduced a range of low-weight, 25cc trimmers and brushcutters aimed at the commercial landscaping and grounds care markets. "Commercial operators need products that not only deliver high work rates and quality finishing, but wherever possible can reduce costly man hours and maximise profitability," says commercial landscaping and groundcare manager Kevin Ashmore.
Featuring a 25cc two-stroke X-Torq engine, these machines focus on being easy to manoeuvre.
The 525LK Combi Unit and 525RJX feature a loop handle and SmartStart. The 525RXT, weighing 5.4kg, comes with comfort handlebars, T35X line head, grass blade and Balance 55 harness.
A new entrant to the power-tools market, Hyundai Power Equipment, makes its first appearance at IoG Saltex with a range suited to estate and amenity use. The line-up encompasses lawnmowers and string trimmers, a multi-tool and a pair of brushcutters. Chainsaws, a petrol-engined hedge trimmer, backpack blowers, a handheld blower/vac and three pressure washers join the Genpower generator units for which Hyundai is already known.
"The move into the wider garden, estate and professional grounds-maintenance sector is an exciting and important step for Genpower and for Hyundai Power Equipment in the UK and Ireland," says managing director Roland Llewellin. The company has secured the knowledge and expertise of Mark Osborne as head of sales and marketing.
Makita has introduced a four-stroke, 43cc brushcutter for all-day work with right/left vibration figures of 2.1m/s2 and 2.0m/s2. The benefits include cost savings, less environmental impact and increased user comfort. The engine delivers 2hp at 7,000rpm to drive the cutter head. The machine weighs 8.6kg and is supplied with a full professional harness that includes a rigid back-spreader plate and wide belt.
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2013年8月16日 星期五
2013年3月5日 星期二
U.S. Exports Will Expand Wind Farm in Honduras
Two hundred Pennsylvanian workers will assemble twelve high-tech wind turbines for export, because the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) approved a $28.6 million direct loan to a Honduran power company. The transaction helps to expand a project first supported by the Bank in 2010, when its long-term financing of 51 U.S.-built turbine generators established the Cerro de Hula Wind Farm in Santa Ana, Honduras.
"Building on the success of this impressive project, Ex-Im Bank is demonstrating the importance of its role to fill gaps in financing for creditworthy borrowers," explained Fred P. Hochberg, chairman and president of Ex-Im Bank. "With this project, we've achieved an impressive win all around: for exporters, for U.S. workers, and for energy consumers in Honduras, because the wind-driven generators cost less to operate than their equivalent in fossil-fueled equipment."
Gamesa Wind US, LLC, a technology firm based in Trevose, Pennsylvania, will manufacture and export six each of its high-efficiency model G87 and G-97, 2.0 MW turbines to generate electric power in rural Honduras. Gamesa operates two facilities in the U.S., a blades factory in Ebensburg, near Johnstown, and a nacelle plant outside Philadelphia. In 2011, Gamesa was named Ex-Im Bank's "Renewable Energy Exporter of the Year." Other U.S. exporters involved in the project will also benefit. They include engineering contractors, financial and legal advisors, and represent jobs in the states of Massachusetts, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Texas.
The Cerro de Hula Wind Farm now produces about six percent of the electrical power in Honduras. With the additions from this transaction, the wind farm will have 63 wind turbines and a total installed capacity of 126MW providing power to the national electric utility.
"The Americas are still far from realizing the full potential of a clean energy economy," said Gamesa North American chairman David Flitterman. "But at Gamesa, we're proud to manufacture American-made wind turbines that get shipped from our U.S. plants to countries far and wide. While the U.S. wind industry slowly is recovering after late renewal of the U.S. Production Tax Credit in January, thanks to Ex-Im Bank these export projects are creating new business opportunities in emerging markets, and are supporting good-paying jobs throughout the entire supply chain."
The exporter is a technology firm with manufacturing operations in Pennsylvania, and is a subsidiary of Gamesa Technology Corporation, a sustainable-energy concern headquartered in northern Spain. It ranks as the fourth-largest manufacturer of wind turbines and is in the top ten globally for wind farm development. Gamesa builds photovoltaic power stations and wind farms on land and off-shore. Although the parent company is Spanish, Ex-Im Bank provides financing only for goods and services associated with production by U.S. workers.
Ex-Im Bank is an independent federal agency that helps to create and maintain U.S. jobs by filling gaps in private export financing at no cost to American taxpayers. In the past five years, Ex-Im Bank has earned for U.S. taxpayers nearly $1.6 billion above the cost of operations. The Bank provides a variety of financing mechanisms, including working capital guarantees, export-credit insurance and financing to help foreign buyers purchase U.S. goods and services.
"Building on the success of this impressive project, Ex-Im Bank is demonstrating the importance of its role to fill gaps in financing for creditworthy borrowers," explained Fred P. Hochberg, chairman and president of Ex-Im Bank. "With this project, we've achieved an impressive win all around: for exporters, for U.S. workers, and for energy consumers in Honduras, because the wind-driven generators cost less to operate than their equivalent in fossil-fueled equipment."
Gamesa Wind US, LLC, a technology firm based in Trevose, Pennsylvania, will manufacture and export six each of its high-efficiency model G87 and G-97, 2.0 MW turbines to generate electric power in rural Honduras. Gamesa operates two facilities in the U.S., a blades factory in Ebensburg, near Johnstown, and a nacelle plant outside Philadelphia. In 2011, Gamesa was named Ex-Im Bank's "Renewable Energy Exporter of the Year." Other U.S. exporters involved in the project will also benefit. They include engineering contractors, financial and legal advisors, and represent jobs in the states of Massachusetts, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Texas.
The Cerro de Hula Wind Farm now produces about six percent of the electrical power in Honduras. With the additions from this transaction, the wind farm will have 63 wind turbines and a total installed capacity of 126MW providing power to the national electric utility.
"The Americas are still far from realizing the full potential of a clean energy economy," said Gamesa North American chairman David Flitterman. "But at Gamesa, we're proud to manufacture American-made wind turbines that get shipped from our U.S. plants to countries far and wide. While the U.S. wind industry slowly is recovering after late renewal of the U.S. Production Tax Credit in January, thanks to Ex-Im Bank these export projects are creating new business opportunities in emerging markets, and are supporting good-paying jobs throughout the entire supply chain."
The exporter is a technology firm with manufacturing operations in Pennsylvania, and is a subsidiary of Gamesa Technology Corporation, a sustainable-energy concern headquartered in northern Spain. It ranks as the fourth-largest manufacturer of wind turbines and is in the top ten globally for wind farm development. Gamesa builds photovoltaic power stations and wind farms on land and off-shore. Although the parent company is Spanish, Ex-Im Bank provides financing only for goods and services associated with production by U.S. workers.
Ex-Im Bank is an independent federal agency that helps to create and maintain U.S. jobs by filling gaps in private export financing at no cost to American taxpayers. In the past five years, Ex-Im Bank has earned for U.S. taxpayers nearly $1.6 billion above the cost of operations. The Bank provides a variety of financing mechanisms, including working capital guarantees, export-credit insurance and financing to help foreign buyers purchase U.S. goods and services.
2012年12月27日 星期四
Skilled trades key to the future of Windsor’s tooling industry
Shane Therrien has three uncles who work in Windsor’s currently thriving mould, tool, die and machining sector.
“They always told me never get into the trades,” said the 21-year-old.
He is not the first Windsor area kid to get that message from family members who have ridden the highs and lows of the auto industry. Now that he’s working full time as he completes his apprenticeship as a computer numerical control machinist, he is glad he decided to check it out himself.
These days the Windsor area shops that feed auto parts suppliers and car factories are hiring machinists, welders, industrial electricians and other skilled tradespeople at a frantic pace. Many of these shops were laying workers off not long ago and had almost stopped taking apprentices as the industry shrank for a decade.
Now they’re desperate for young blood, but many lack dedicated staff, time and money to train new hires. One exception is Valiant Corp., where Therrien landed almost by accident.
After graduating from St. Thomas of Villanova High School in LaSalle, he was ready to go to university to take math and sciences with the aim of getting into the medical field. After one semester at the University of Windsor, Therrien knew it wasn’t for him.
He found it difficult to hit the books after class, but he is smart and good with his hands. He’d built decks and fences with one of his uncles in the summers since he was 14 years old and helped his dad with maintenance work at his mom’s hair salon.
“My family is a hard working family. Everybody is always working,” he said.
A Grade 12 diploma, motivation and reliability are the three things Mike Ouellette looks for in the young trainees he hires at the Valiant Training and Development Centre. Therrien is one of 83 students the company has taken in to date. They are paid $12-$12.75 an hour and given benefits while they train for 46 weeks.
So far, Therrien and 50 others have then been hired by Valiant as apprentices after completing the program. Their wages start at $14 an hour as they complete their apprenticeships through night classes at St. Clair College and climb to $24 an hour and beyond when they are seasoned journeymen. Other smaller shops are asking Valiant to train for them, said Ouellette, the centre’s skilled trades training co-ordinator.
“We’re hoping to grow to train for bigger numbers, but we need help from the government,” he said.
If Windsor wants to maintain its leadership in the tool, mould, die and machining sector, it needs thousands of young skilled workers like Therrien, he said. “This is what Canada has to wake up and see. We’re going to lose the work to offshore people…. If we don’t start training all these people will be retiring.”
Therrien said he had no idea what he was getting into. He quickly learned Ouellette, who ran his own shop for 33 years, had a good eye for potential. In 2011, Therrien was awarded an apprentice of the year bursary by the Canadian Tooling and Machining Association.
“It’s good. I’m enjoying it now,” he said of running the mammoth machines and computers that produce tooling and parts used in manufacturing. “I don’t know if my body can handle it for a long time…. Hopefully, eventually I’ll move up into engineering or something like that.”
He’s heard the cynical view that it’s a dying trade but, the way he sees it, no matter how technology changes, the work will have to be done by those who can learn and adapt.
“Everything we have requires a mould, requires some kinds of designing to it.”
Plus, he is getting a paycheque with his education, he said. “They’re offering to pay you while you’re training. Why wouldn’t you take that opportunity?”
“They always told me never get into the trades,” said the 21-year-old.
He is not the first Windsor area kid to get that message from family members who have ridden the highs and lows of the auto industry. Now that he’s working full time as he completes his apprenticeship as a computer numerical control machinist, he is glad he decided to check it out himself.
These days the Windsor area shops that feed auto parts suppliers and car factories are hiring machinists, welders, industrial electricians and other skilled tradespeople at a frantic pace. Many of these shops were laying workers off not long ago and had almost stopped taking apprentices as the industry shrank for a decade.
Now they’re desperate for young blood, but many lack dedicated staff, time and money to train new hires. One exception is Valiant Corp., where Therrien landed almost by accident.
After graduating from St. Thomas of Villanova High School in LaSalle, he was ready to go to university to take math and sciences with the aim of getting into the medical field. After one semester at the University of Windsor, Therrien knew it wasn’t for him.
He found it difficult to hit the books after class, but he is smart and good with his hands. He’d built decks and fences with one of his uncles in the summers since he was 14 years old and helped his dad with maintenance work at his mom’s hair salon.
“My family is a hard working family. Everybody is always working,” he said.
A Grade 12 diploma, motivation and reliability are the three things Mike Ouellette looks for in the young trainees he hires at the Valiant Training and Development Centre. Therrien is one of 83 students the company has taken in to date. They are paid $12-$12.75 an hour and given benefits while they train for 46 weeks.
So far, Therrien and 50 others have then been hired by Valiant as apprentices after completing the program. Their wages start at $14 an hour as they complete their apprenticeships through night classes at St. Clair College and climb to $24 an hour and beyond when they are seasoned journeymen. Other smaller shops are asking Valiant to train for them, said Ouellette, the centre’s skilled trades training co-ordinator.
“We’re hoping to grow to train for bigger numbers, but we need help from the government,” he said.
If Windsor wants to maintain its leadership in the tool, mould, die and machining sector, it needs thousands of young skilled workers like Therrien, he said. “This is what Canada has to wake up and see. We’re going to lose the work to offshore people…. If we don’t start training all these people will be retiring.”
Therrien said he had no idea what he was getting into. He quickly learned Ouellette, who ran his own shop for 33 years, had a good eye for potential. In 2011, Therrien was awarded an apprentice of the year bursary by the Canadian Tooling and Machining Association.
“It’s good. I’m enjoying it now,” he said of running the mammoth machines and computers that produce tooling and parts used in manufacturing. “I don’t know if my body can handle it for a long time…. Hopefully, eventually I’ll move up into engineering or something like that.”
He’s heard the cynical view that it’s a dying trade but, the way he sees it, no matter how technology changes, the work will have to be done by those who can learn and adapt.
“Everything we have requires a mould, requires some kinds of designing to it.”
Plus, he is getting a paycheque with his education, he said. “They’re offering to pay you while you’re training. Why wouldn’t you take that opportunity?”
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