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Here you will find the RACO news from the world of the electromechanical actuator. We will show you actual and interesting application examples or special configurations from our modular system of electric actuators and linear drives.


News Locking Pin Actuator for the Sky Deck
At the Willis Tower, formerly the Sears Tower, at 1,353 feet above the streets of Chicago, RACO actuators are part of a new, exciting and hair curling experience. The Ledge, a glass box that extends out 4.3 feet from the skyscraper’s skydeck on the 103rd floor, provides a spectacular view of the heart of Chicago and the streets below. The floor, walls and ceiling are constructed totally out of glass. ... ===>


Application Example Revolving Glass Door Panel
In the center of Hamburg’s business district, a uniquely shaped building has been designed by the Berlin architects Pysall, Ruge. The four boomerang shaped building sections form a six-story office building with a center atrium. Found at both the north and south sides of the structure, four-story high revolving glass portal panels create lavish entrances to the building and the center atrium. ... ===>


News adjusting the measuring arm to roll-grinding machines
The steel strip is led through rollers during the manufacture of steel strip. The preferred thickness for the sheets is rolled from steel plate while doing so. The rollers are subject to wear that is caused by the process. The damaged surfaces of rollers must therefore be measured and then reground at appropriate intervals. ... ===>


Application Example Salt loading station
Railway wagons are loaded in a salt loading station and then shunted by a wagon marshalling installation. The wagons are marshalled by a shunting carriage that is moved by ropes between the railway tracks, thereby eliminating the need for a shunting engine. Movement of the shunting carriage is centrally controlled by stored program control ... ... ===>


Application Example Cement clinker production
RACO COMPACT electric actuators are being used for the double flap valves of a kiln for cement clinker production in Saudi Arabia where 10,000 tons of cement clinker are produced every day. The double flap valves are actuated by a total of 20 type T6N4 electric actuators. ... ===>


Application Example Scissor lifting table in floor conveyor
In partially automated handling procedures different working heights are frequently required on manual mounting sites. To provide each worker with the same ergonomical conditions even under varying mounting conditions for the work piece, the lifting tables can be moved electromechanically ... ... ===>


Application Example RACO Electric Actuator in sugar mill place
The applications in a sugar mill place high demands on reliability and availably of the production installations. Trouble-free, 3-shift operation has to be assured with unfailing reliability during the limited period of the sugar beet harvest ... ... ===>


Application Example RACO Electric Actuator in brown coal mining
Open cast brown coal (lignite) mining is a principal source of energy accounting for a quarter of the total power generation in Germany. This has given rise to the intensified application of measurement and control techniques in the handling of bulk materials ... ... ===>


Application Example RACO Cylinders for tracking height
Automated processes require flexible adjustment to parts of different sizes or various stacking heights. Actuators that track the machine, tool or a conveyor belt with appropriate precision in real time and simply are necessary for this purpose. Typical applications are labelling achines that have to track packages of different heights ... ... ===>


Application Example Flap operation in coal-fired power plants
In case of an application in a power plant the components have to meet particularly high requirements with regard to availability and long service life, because the main goal of the electricity supplier is to produce electricity round the clock! Flap triggering units in industrial power plants require a compact and rugged construction that saves space, is cost efficient and can be easily installed and operated ... ... ===>


Application Example Seat Testing facilities
RACO Electric Actuators are used in a multitude of testing facilities to test the behaviour and specific properties of materials under widely differing conditions. The components are subjected to different load conditions so that weak points and qualify deficiencies in a product can be detected in the earliest stages of product development and testing ... ... ===>


Application Example Pitch adjusting in a water turbine
RACO Electro cylinder for the guide vane pitch adjustment device in a water turbine. The power station is equiped with two kaplan type turbines to generate appr. 110 kW power out put. For the fficieny of such a turbine configuration the otor and the guide vane (stator blade) have to be adjusted in a optimal postion contineously ... ... ===>