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Did someone say that business exhibitions were exhausting and boring? DYNATECH would like to offer you something different for a change.

If you have a chance to go to this year’s INTERLIFT exhibition, take the opportunity to visit us at stand 7144 in Pavilion 7. There you’ll find lots of products, new developments and, above all, excitement and enjoyment.

As well as the stand under our own name, we will give you the OFFICIAL list of DYNATECH DISTRIBUTORS appearing at INTERLIFT, who will be happy to assist you at their respective stands:

• INTERNATIONAL LIFT EQUIPMENT (ILC): Stand 2233, Pavilion 2,

• ELEVATOR TRADING (ETG)-: Stand 7125, Pavilion 7

• VERTIMA AUFZUGS- UND GEBÄUDETECHNIK (VERTIMA): Stand 3110, Pavilion 3

We hope your visit will be an experience to remember.

Dear Customers,

Dynatech has the pleasure to announce that on June 30 it will update its current web page with a much more complete and useful version.

There will be a corporate video translated into 6 languages showing who Dynatech are and what we do. We are confident that the information presented in this video will be very useful for all those customers who have not yet had the opportunity to visit us, who may know our products but nothing about our company.

We hope this new information tool will be to your liking; we will be constantly working on it to expand and improve it. We also urge you to please send us any suggestions you may have regarding our website or any other issue. Your opinion is very valuable to us.

Kind regards,

Dear Customer,

Until now, DYNATECH offered the QUASAR T25 and QUASAR SV versions for descent and two-way operation. The conventional version of the QUASAR governor was limited to descent-only operation because the rope used (4mm PFEIFER DRAKO STX) did not offer adequate safety margins for two-way operation, in this version alone.

This has been solved by the certification of the GUSTAV WOLF model PAWO 819 W rope with a 6.5mm diameter and use of the new design COMPACT 126 tension weight. The one-way version of this governor will still be supplied with the 4mm DRAKO STX rope.

The QUASAR two-way governor can be supplied with a remote operating system or with an anti-creep system to comply with the A3.

Given its small size and its great features, along with an extremely competitive price, the QUASAR speed governor is an ideal solution for new and existing installations.

Please do not hesitate to contact us with any queries regarding this matter, or consult the product specifications in the corresponding section of our website.

Dynatech has recently certified its 200 and 300 tension weights with just 1 mass for use with the one-way (descent only) versions of the LBD-200, VEGA and LBD-300 governors.

Thanks to this, we have been able to considerably reduce the weight of the tension weights in these cases, as well as their price. Please consult their updated price in the customers’ area of our website for this and other news.

Dear customers,

Dynatech has just approved the new safety gear for the high-speed ASG-221 (unidirectional) and ASG-221 UD (bidirectional).

The maximum tripping speed is 3.9m/s and is used in machined, dry guide rails.

The maximum allowable P+Q in both safety gears is 3.284kg, but can reach up to 6,500kg if the TANDEM system is used.

For further information, please consult the product page on our website.

Dear Customer,

We would like to inform you that Dynatech has released an update to its T-25 driving bar, which is used together with the ASG type unidirectional safety gear; it is called the T-25 v2.

As this driving bar is delivered pre-assembled with the safety gear, there will be no difference in its use, and its functionality of course is also guaranteed. The only difference for the installer, which is an advantage, is that you will not need to install the tension springs packet, required up till now, as this function will be performed by the incorporated torque spring.

The new version is in fact very similar to the T-25UD version.

Please find explanatory drawings of the changes attached:

• Difference between  T-25 and T-25v2 click here.

• Difference between  T-25 UD and T-25v2 click here.

Dear customer,

As you probably know, there is to be a significant change in the standards applied in our lift sector. The current EN-81:1 2001 + A3 and EN-81:2 2001 + A3 are to be replaced by EN-81:20 and EN-81:50.

In order to solve any doubts our customers may have regarding the way in which this change will affect our products, Dynatech has carefully studied the new standards and has also contacted the notified Bodies.

These are the main points to consider:

1. The new standards are to come into force as of late October 2014 in the EU and will undergo the translation and validation process in each country until around March 2015.

2. The former Standards will remain valid until 31^st August 2017 and, therefore, both Standards will coexist for over 2 years.

3. No new certificate can be issued and the current certificates cannot be modified according to the new Standards until they have been validated in each country, in this case Spain.

4. None of our SAFETY GEARS will be affected by this change, as they are fully compliant with Standard EN-81-20 and EN-81-50. All that is required is an extension of the current certificates, which will be possible as of March 2015.

5. The same applies to our STAR, VEGA and QUASAR speed governors in all of their versions.

6. The LBD-300 governor will have to be redesigned. This is because the new Regulation requires a shorter distance between the interlock points and, therefore, the number of interlock points must be increased.

Dynatech is already designing the new model to replace the LBD-300. This must then be validated and certified in line with the new Standards. This new certification will be available as of late 2015.

7. The LBD-200 governor has the same disadvantage. In this case, we have decided to keep the same design for countries outside the EU only, i.e. countries with ASME influence.

It will be completely replaced in the EU by the VEGA governor, as this also has a diameter of 200 mm and covers the entire range of speeds, even more than the LBD-200. Furthermore, it is already fully compliant with the new Standards, as explained above.

Summary table:

Kind regards.

Dear customers,

Dynatech is pleased to inform you that our Russian certificate for Progressive safety gears PR-2000-UD, PQ-4000-UD, ASG-100-UD, ASG-120-UD and PR-2500-UD has been renewed, according to the Customs Union’s TP-TC-011/2011 technical requirements, and is valid for: Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. As soon as we receive the certificates for the rest of the safety gears we will let you know.

PR-2000 UD Certificate

PR-2500 UD Certificate

PQ-4000 UD Certificate

ASG-100 UD Certificate

ASG-120 UD Certificate

We remind you that our Russian certifications for the STAR, VEGA and LBD-200 Overspeed governors have already been renewed in accordance with the technical requirements from the Customs Union TP-TC-011/2011, and are valid for: Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

 STAR Certificate

VEGA Certificate

LBD-200 Certificate

In 2009 Dynatech created a new technical development department, independent from our R&D department for safety components: The Integration Laboratory. The purpose of this new department was, and still is, the technological development of new projects that are not connected with the company’s main product, whether they were started by Dynatech or originated from collaborations with other companies, research centres, technological institutes, etc.

It had a double purpose: On one hand, Dynatech had the opportunity to diversify its technological activities in sectors outside of the lift industry, which, therefore, implied the possibility of developing an industrial product and even participating in its subsequent industrialisation process, given that Dynatech has been involved in this process since its conception. On the other hand, working in multidisciplinary environments with so many diverse applications and technologies allowed Dynatech to take advantage of knowledge and techniques, not from our sector, that can be applied to current and future products, in a constantly improving benchmarking process.

The results of this initiative, among others not mentioned, have been the collaboration and the provision of solutions to companies such as EADS (see related news story), the development of a hydrogen vehicle with other companies and research centres (see related news story), Dynatech’s design for a vertical axis wind turbine, which has made a lot of progress but is still in development (see related video), etc.

At present, apart from other on-going projects, we would like to highlight that our Integration Department is collaborating with the “Group of Thermal Properties of Materials” from the Materials Science Institute of Aragon (Spanish National Research Council –CSIC (for its Spanish abbreviation)-, the University of Zaragoza –UNIZAR (for its Spanish abbreviation)-) and the University of Zaragoza’s Condensed Matter Physics Department, to create a test bench for a magnetic refrigeration system, to be used in a lab, which incorporates Halbach permanent magnet rotors.

This project is coordinated by professors Mr Ramón Burriel and Mr Elías Palacios. Mr David Velázquez and Mr Jesús Beltrán, the collaborating engineers, monitor the project, perform the simulations and process the results. Mr Ramón del Cacho, from Dynatech, is the support technician for kinematics and control.

This project, of great technological contribution, is backed by BSH (Bosch Siemens Hausgeräte).