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Hydraulic Use in Municipalities

power lines

Municipalities utilize myriad hydraulic products within their fleets. These include fire trucks to police cars to snow plows to sanders… Read more »

Hydraulics in Material Handling

Forklift outside of a warehouse for material handling

Material handling is a large market in the fluid transference and treatment business. There are various material handling machines in… Read more »

Diesel Engine Products

A row of heavy duty diesel engine trucks in a parking lot

Boiling down what we do here at Power Drives is a little different for each market we serve. There are… Read more »

Hydraulic Hose Repair

hose collar on a hose

In past posts, we’ve made it very clear that when there is a hydraulic hose failure in your operation, you… Read more »

Pneumatic Actuators

Pneumatic actuator collage of gripper, rodless, NFPA, compact and thruster actuators

Pneumatic actuators are the mechanical devices that move things back and forth along a linear or rotary path. Pneumatic actuators… Read more »

Hydraulic Pumps and Motors

Hydraulic pumps and motors collage

Hydraulic pumps and motors are some of the most important pieces in a hydraulic system. They serve equally important, yet… Read more »

Water Separator

PDI's compressed air water separator

Water wreaks havoc on locomotive systems. This is true both both the diesel and the air systems. Power Drives has… Read more »

Hydraulic Tubing

Diesel Engine exhaust gas return steel tubes

Hydraulic tubing, or hydraulic lines, are used in much modern machinery. Here at PDI, we manufacture steel tubing for hydraulic… Read more »

Hydraulic Valves

Collage of ball, needle and flow control hydraulic valves

There are many types of hydraulic valves: ball valves, manual valves, cartridge valves, solenoid/directional control valves, flow-control valves, check valves,… Read more »