July, 2008. Peter Achten of Innas has won the Joseph Bramah Medal. This prestigious award will be presented to him during the ASME Symposium on Fluid Power & Motion Control in Bath, UK, on 10-12 September 2008. The Joseph Bramah Medal is given out by the Mechatronics, Informatics & Control Group of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London. For more information, please visit the IMechE site.

June, 2008. During the 7th JFPS International Symposium Peter Achten of Innas will present the paper 'Design and Fuel Economy of a Series Hydraulic Hybrid Vehicle'. Mohammed Ibrahim Sokar and Torsten Kohmaescher of the IFAS, RWTH Aachen University and Georges Vael of Innas also contributed to this technical paper. Achten's presentation will be on tuesday, September 16, in Organised Session 1: Agriculture, Mining Machinery, from 9:40-11:00. The 7th JFPS International Symposium on Fluid Power will take place in Toyama, Japan, 15-18 September 2008. For more details on the symposium, please view: www.jfps.jp

April 2008. Missed the Innas presentations during the IFPE 2008 in Las Vegas or the 6th IFK in Dresden? The papers of the lectures 'the Flexible Seat Valve' , 'A serial hydraulic hybrid drive train for off-road vehicles' and 'Energy efficiency of the Hydrid' can be now be ordered free of charge. Please click on 'literature' to obtain your copy.

March 2008. Innas is participating in the 6. IFK in Dresden, 31 March - 2 April, 2008. Peter Achten will be presenting a paper during this International Fluid Power Congress. More information can be found on the IFK website: www.ifk2008.com

January 2008. The brochure on the HyDrid concept can be downloaded as a pdf document. Please click here for your copy.

December 2007. Innas and NOAX are participating in the International Exposition for Power Transmission (IFPE 2008). The trade show is to be held on March 11-15, 2008 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas. You can visit Innas-NOAX at booth S-14738. For more information, please contact us or visit the IFPE website: www.ifpe.com.

November 2007. Two papers about the design of the HyDrid, a hydrostatic hybrid vehicle, have been released. The paper "Changing the Paradigm"was presented by during the SICFP'07 in Finland. On October 30, 2007, Peter Achten presented his paper 'The hydrid transmission' during the SAE Commercial Vehicle Engineering Congress in Rosemont (Chicago). These papers can now be obtained from this site. Please click on 'literature' to order your copy.

July 2007. New efficiency measurements for the Floating Cup pump were performed at the Eindhoven Technical University. Please click here for a presentation of the results.

May 2007. Shortly after the Fluid Power Conference in Tampere, Finland, Innas will also be a participant of the 'Hydraulikdagar' (May 30-31, 2007) of the University of Linköping, Sweden. An introduction of the Flexible Seat Valve will be given by Peter Achten during the Plenary Session on wednesday, 30 May. The programme (in Swedish) of this hydraulics conference (HD '07) can be found on the site of the Fluid and Mechanical Engineering Systems (FluMeS) department of Linköping University.

May 2007. On the Tenth Scandinavian International Conference on Fluid Power (SICFP'07) Peter Achten of Innas will be presenting his paper "Changing the Paradigm", in which he describes the design of a 'HyDrid', a hydrostatic hybrid vehicle using the floating cup principle and hydraulic transformers. The SICFP'07 will take place in Tampere, Finland, on May 21-23, 2007.

April 2007. Innas is exhibiting at the Hannover Messe, April 16-20, 2007. On display will be the lastest developments and prototypes of the Hydraulic Floating Cup pump. The design of a new, flexible seat valve will also be introduced. Please visit our booth in Hall 23, stand no. B34.

January 2007. After having been linked to the image of the thinking man on his rock, we decided it to be time for a new logo representing Innas. From now on, an innovative lightbulb will appear on our letters and business cards. This new image represents the unconventional, innovative way in which Innas is looking at complex technical challenges.

December 2006. In the new year, researchers from Innas and Eindhoven Technical University will cooperate in a new research project ‘The influence of barrel deformations on the balance of the barrel in a floating cup pump’. This research is being granted by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), under the CASIMIR programme.
To make jobs in research more attractive, the Dutch government wishes to increase the mobility of research staff in the public and private sector. Mobility in the form of exchanges of workers between the two sectors is a good way of making research careers more attractive and interesting. It can enable academic researchers to participate in corporate R&D and industry researchers to participate in research at public-sector knowledge institutions. The CASIMIR programme will help to achieve these aims by providing financial incentives for companies and knowledge institutions to organise exchanges between talented researchers in the public and private sectors and to offer them enhanced career prospects.