Electric Actuators answer the Need for Speed - and so much more! 

Thorite understands that there are problems experienced by companies currently using pneumatic actuators. Higher operating speeds, more control, increased efficiency and enhanced feedback can all be provided by changing to electric actuators, but up to now the comparatively more expensive costs of these units has held them back. 

But from today, thanks to Thorite's huge purchasing power, the cost of ownership of electric actuators is rapidly reducing to that of pneumatic cylinders! 

Thorite is offering Electric Drives from selected industry-leading manufacturers including Festo, Parker, SMC and Linak. This flexibility of choice means Thorite's specialist Automation Applications Team, using sizing software to check application parameters, can help customers specify the most appropriate solution to their precise application requirements, with all the benefits that electric actuation brings. 

These benefits include significantly increased speed - up to 10m/s maximum, with spectacular acceleration figures of 125m/s2, or twice that of a jet fighter. Control is much better too, with accuracy to 0.003mm and infinitely variable positioning and repeatability.

Electric actuators are 80% efficient, compared to just 15% for pneumatic cylinders, providing typical electricity savings of 50%. An integrated encoder gives constant and perfect position feedback and customers can add rotary actuators and grippers to the mix for a totally flexible "pick and place" solution. 

Previous differences in costs between electric and pneumatic actuation are now much reduced, and with Thorite's prices fast approaching parity there can be no doubt that electric actuators are the better value, higher performance, increased efficiency option for a wide range of automation applications. 

Full details of electric actuators are available from the Thorite website, but there's no substitute for discussing specific application requirements with the company's hand-picked trio of experts who make up the Automation Applications Team. This comprises Mike Perry, the Systems Division's Business Development Manager who can be contacted on 07791 051574, Key Account Manager Steve Farrington on 07973 316904 or Pneumatics & Vacuum Applications Manager Mik Rhodes on 07969 875615. 

Once customers make the decision on which model of electric actuator best suits their needs they can be ordered online for next day delivery, or collected from any of Thorite's 10 regional Sales & Service Centres located throughout Yorkshire, Lancashire, the West Midlands and the North East. 

Further Information: Ross Gowler

Thorite Marketing and Engineering Services Director

Tel: 01274 663471.

Email:ross.gowler@thorite.co.ukWeb:www.thorite.co.uk 

Note to Editors

A family owned business since its foundation in 1850, Thorite has grown to become theUK's largestdistributor of pneumatic products and process systems. From its head office in Bradford, which also houses the company's state of the art National Distribution Centre, showroom and trade sales centre, Thorite has expanded to create a regional network of pneumatics Sales and Service Centres in Blackburn, Bolton, Doncaster, Huddersfield, Leeds, Rochdale, Sheffield, North Shields and the West Midlands. 

Thorite, Thorite House, Laisterdyke, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD4 8BZ.