NFPA News
NFPA Preparing for Technology Roadmap Update in 2017
by Eric Lanke, NFPA President/CEO The NFPA Technology Roadmap is a document that describes an industry-wide consensus regarding the pre-competitive research …
NFPA Members Invited to Participate in MSOE’s Fluid Power Industry Consortium
Initiative Will Help Support NFPA’s Road-Mapping Efforts by Eric Lanke NFPA President/CEO The Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) has announced the …
CCEFP Moves Forward on Strategic Priorities
CCEFP Strategy Led by Faculty Experts and Industry Leaders The Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power (CCEFP) continues to make progress toward its three …
NFPA to Host World Fluid Power Summit at IFPE 2017
by Eric Lanke NFPA President/CEO The world of fluid power is already making its plans to gather at IFPE 2017, the leading international exposition and …
NFPA Applies for Federal Funding to Support Education
by Eric Lanke, NFPA President/CEO In early October 2016, NFPA submitted an application to the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program of the National …
2017 Annual Conference Registration Now Open
Every so often, a truly special industry event hits the calendar. The NFPA 2017 Annual Conference is one of those events. Scheduled for February 8-10, 2017, at …
2016 FPIRC Was A Success
by Eric Lanke, NFPA President/CEO Last week I had the great pleasure of attending the third Fluid Power Innovation and Research Conference (FPIRC) in …
NSF MME Workshop Helps Chart Course for Fluid Power Advanced Manufacturing Research
By Eric Lanke, NFPA President/CEO Back in May I participated in a workshop on Fluid Power Advanced Manufacturing, hosted by the University of Minnesota and …
Meeting with DOE VTO Begins Fluid Power Research Discussion
By Eric Lanke, NFPA President/CEO With our university research and education partner the Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power (CCEFP), NFPA has been …
Future of Fluid Power Session Confirmed for IFPE Conference
By Eric Lanke, NFPA President/CEO The next Energy Efficient Hydraulics and Pneumatics Conference (EEHPC) will be held in March 2017 in conjunction with the …
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, …
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