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April 8, 2025

Case Study: Critical Gearbox Repair for the Cement Industry

Meeting Tight Shutdown Timelines The Challenge: A Critical Gearbox Failure During a Shutdown During a scheduled shutdown in January, a cement manufacturer requested our Nisku, Alberta, team to perform borescope inspections on a site gear […]

August 8, 2024

Keeping the Paper Rolling: Modernizing Lubrication System

A leading pulp and paper manufacturer faced a critical challenge: their large paper machine’s bearing lubrication system was outdated and unreliable. The lack of precision monitoring threatened to disrupt production with inefficiencies and increased downtime […]

April 24, 2024

How to Choose the Right Repair Service for Your Rotating Equipment

Choosing the right rotating equipment repair service is critical to ensuring your machinery operates efficiently, safely and reliably. Consider the following when choosing a repair service for your rotating equipment.

January 15, 2024

Case Study: Bringing A Flour Mill Into the 21st Century

See how our Motion Repair & Services team transformed a flour mill customer's hydraulic system into an electromechanical solution.

January 12, 2024

5 Reasons Pumps Fail

Premature pump failure: Why does it happen? How does it happen? These questions can plague us all from time to time. Have you ever been frustrated that you can’t figure out why your pump is leaking? You just bought it—it’s never been used—and now it is leaking and/or failing to move product. This question has plagued me from time to time. However, pump failures are often not as complicated as they seem and understanding them can give insight.

January 10, 2024

3 Steps to Improve Motor Reliability

No matter the size, any production system will have at least one motor to provide the power—and with proper attention, that motor’s efficiency plays its part in a plant’s smooth operation. Consider the current motor population in […]

January 10, 2024

How to Identify and Stop Pump Cavitation

Have you ever passed by a pump and heard what sounds like rocks or marbles going through it? Most likely, this noise is internal cavitation, one of the most common problems with pumps. Cavitation can cause loss of flow, higher energy usage, seal leakage, and internal metal damage.

January 10, 2024

Installed in a paper mill, this driveshaft features new universal shaft joints that fixed a misalignment issue. The gear couplings were also replaced.

January 10, 2024

The Lowdown on Low Angle

A common misunderstanding, especially in the paper industry, is that a universal joint driveline (or Cardan shaft) must operate at three degrees minimum misalignment. This concept causes mills and plant to spend unnecessary resources to create this minimum […]