Profiles provide flexible alternative to welded steel.
Press Release Summary:
Aluminum structural framing profiles in Series 40/50 include closed-slotted and radius profiles for clean applications, as well as profiles with 50 x 150 mm and 80 x 120 mm cross sections for heavy-duty applications. Profiles employ connectors that provide bolt-together construction to facilitate assembly and reconfiguration. Accessories give users ability to develop complete applications from single source.
Original Press Release:
Bosch Rexroth Expands 40/50 Series Offering to Include Nine New Profiles
Company to display its vastly expanded 40/50 structural framing profile offering at IMTS; September 8-15, 2004, at the McCormick Place Complex in Chicago, IL; Booth # D4240.
The Linear Motion and Assembly Technologies business unit of Bosch Rexroth Corporation has introduced Phase II of its 40/50 metric profile offering
BUCHANAN, MI-Bosch Rexroth Corporation, Linear Motion and Assembly Technologies business unit, has added 9 new, high-strength profiles to fill out the 40 & 50 series offering of its already extensive aluminum structural framing system. New profiles include closed-slotted and radius profiles for clean applications, as well as profiles with 50mm x 150mm and 80mm x 120mm cross sections for heavy-duty applications. Combined with the existing profile offering, Bosch Rexroth now offers the most extensive profile selection in the industry. These profiles provide a flexible alternative to welded steel, an asset critical in lean manufacturing applications today. Extremely robust connectors provide bolt-together construction for easy assembly and reconfiguration. And a wide range of accessories gives users the ability to develop complete applications from a single source.
All Bosch Rexroth profiles, connectors, and accessories form a family of structural components that ideally complement the company's assembly conveyor, flexible chain conveyor, robot and linear motion products.
FMSsoft, version 7.0, Rexroth's parametric 3D design software, also includes the new profiles, as does the on-line framing shop at www.boschrexroth-us.com for convenient on-line ordering.
Bosch Rexroth Corporation, a merger of Bosch Automation Technology and Rexroth, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Robert Bosch GmbH. In the year 2002, Bosch Rexroth AG had total revenues of approximately $3.89 billion (3.62 billion Euros) and a worldwide total of around 26,000 employees. In the Americas, Bosch Rexroth had total revenues of $795 million and about 3,000 employees in 2002.
Business units include Industrial Hydraulics, Electric Drives and Controls, Linear Motion and Assembly Technologies, Pneumatics, Service Automation and Mobile Hydraulics. Bosch Rexroth, The Drive & Control Company, offers comprehensive solutions for drives and motion control in 80 countries around the world.
