Istanbul sits at the intersection of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East in a way that is commercially useful rather than merely geographical. The city is within four hours' flight of virtually every significant industrial economy from Germany to Saud...
Jun. 05. 2026
A hydraulic system without its control valves is a pressure vessel with nowhere for the power to go. Directional control valves, pressure relief valves, flow control valves, proportional valves, and the electrohydraulic servo valves that govern the ...
Jun. 03. 2026
South Korea manufactures semiconductors, ships, automobiles, and the precision industrial machinery that produces all of those things. The hydraulic systems running in Korean manufacturing plants are not incidental to that output — they are st...
Jun. 02. 2026
Antwerp is not where you'd expect to find an important fluid power trade fair. The city is famous for its port — the second-largest in Europe by cargo volume — and its diamond trade, not for being a centre of pump manufacturing or hydrau...
May. 31. 2026
Every large power generation facility in the world has hydraulic systems running somewhere inside it. The steam turbine control valves in a combined-cycle gas plant use electrohydraulic governing systems to regulate rotor speed within fractions of a...
May. 29. 2026
There is a hydraulic system currently operating at 3,000 metres below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, controlling a subsea tree that manages the flow from an oil well producing 20,000 barrels per day. The ambient pressure around that system is 30...
May. 28. 2026
The Motion + Power Technology Expo has a lineage that runs back to the origins of organised fluid power in the United States. What began as the National Fluid Power Association's own exhibition has evolved — through consolidations, rebranding,...
May. 27. 2026
The people who engineer the hydraulic systems in construction equipment, agricultural machinery, and work trucks are a specific community with specific information needs. They are not primarily interested in industrial stationary hydraulics — ...
May. 26. 2026
There is a particular logic to holding the world's most important fluid power exhibition alongside the world's largest construction machinery show. The engineers who design hydraulic systems for excavators, mining trucks, and agricultural equipment ...
May. 25. 2026
Six thousand five hundred companies. Two hundred thousand visitors. Twenty-six halls covering everything from industrial robotics and energy infrastructure to additive manufacturing, AI-driven production systems, and the fluid power technology that ...
May. 24. 2026
France is a larger industrial manufacturing country than its reputation in Anglo-Saxon business media sometimes suggests. Airbus builds aircraft at Toulouse. Safran makes aircraft engines at multiple French sites. Michelin manufactures tyres at Cler...
May. 23. 2026
China consumes more industrial pumps per year than any other country by a significant margin. The combination of continuous heavy manufacturing expansion, large-scale water infrastructure investment, chemical and petrochemical plant construction, an...
May. 22. 2026