Pneumatic Equipment & Supplies

Moving heavy objects with air? It sounds strange, until you realise that a hovercraft does exactly that – using the air pressure to keep it off the surface of the ground or sea. Pneumatics uses air to lift or push heavy loads using pressure.

Pneumatic products and equipment form an integral part of many industries including mining, marine, heavy equipment, military, rail, process, and food and beverage manufacturing. Suppliers offer high quality hydraulic and pneumatic products, accessories, components and spare parts. Some of the hydraulic and pneumatic products and equipment are: valves, pumps, filter systems, manifolds and hoses, couplings, cylinders, and transmissions.

Air bearings and casters can float heavy loads across the warehouse floor with great accuracy. It’s a way of getting loads into places forklifts can’t reach. Using just compressed air, a pneumatic system can move anything up to 500 tons into hard to reach places. Pneumatic manipulators, like miniature cranes, are designed for precision handling of loads up to 480kg. They are particularly suitable for moving and lifting overhanging loads with a working radius up to 3.2m. Various types of control can be used according to the specific handling requirements.

The use of compressed air to move objects is not new. Pneumatically powered machines are everywhere from lifts to powering robot arms. Just as hydraulics is the use of compressed water energy, pneumatics utilises the energy of air under pressure.