Fluid Power Journal

NFPA Publishes Second Annual Report on the U.S. Fluid Power Industry

Fluid power is a workhorse of the U.S. economy—a cross-cutting technology of choice for dozens of industries and hundreds of applications. That’s one of …

NFPA Curriculum Grants Awarded

The NFPA Education and Technology Foundation awards grants of up to $25,000 to 4-year universities to develop, replicate, or disseminate high-quality, …

NFPA, IFPS Members Educate DOE Assessors on Fluid Power Efficiency

by Eric Lanke, NFPA CEO The U.S. Department of Energy maintains more than 20 Industrial Assessment Centers (IACs) around the United States—university …

NFPA Fluid Power Challenge Launches new website

by Lynn Beyer, NFPA Director of Workforce Development Programs I was moderately upset when Instagram recently changed its format. This social media site has …

NFPA Continues to Strengthen the Fluid Power Industry

By Tricia Fulton, CFO, Sun Hydraulics Corp., 2016-17 NFPA Chairwoman of the Board In June of this year, the NFPA Board of Directors held its annual strategic …

Funding for Fluid Power Research Takes Another Step Forward

by Eric Lanke, NFPA CEO Not too long ago, I wrote about NFPA’s day on Capitol Hill—when several NFPA members and I met with 20 or so Congressional offices …

IFPE 2017 Exhibitors’ Education Meeting on August 23 in Chicago

Rick Guidish of Deltrol Fluid Products, representing the IFPE 2017 Management Committee, and Rich Goldsbury of Bobcat/Doosan, chair of the CONEXPO-CON/AGG …

Fluid Power Challenge Re-Cap: Alexandria Technical and Community College

Alexandria Technical and Community College (ATCC) hosted an NFPA Fluid Power Challenge event for the first time on its campus on February 24, 2016, where 68 …

NFPA Elects Tricia Fulton to be Chairwoman of the Board of Directors

The NFPA officially has elected Tricia Fulton, the CFO at Sun Hydraulics, to be the Chairwoman of the Board of Directors for the 2016-17 fiscal year. Fulton is …

NFPA’s Day on Capitol Hill

by Eric Lanke, NFPA CEO Thanks to all the NFPA members who joined me February 9-10 for our first “day” on Capitol Hill. Representatives of Caterpillar, …