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LETTER
FROM THE EDITOR
Were back from the summer
holiday season, and we hope, that as we have,
that youve been able to recharge and re-energize
after a vacation. At Bleutec, the whole team is
ready and roaring to go to help you in selecting
products for all of your material handling applications.
 This
month, we offer you a Leader that is a bit more
technically relaxed. We are bringing you lots
of news though: CAD downloads available from Blickle;
new products; Bleutecs membership to ICWM; and
the newest acquisition of Kinecor. We also invite
you to the CMW show in Toronto that Bleutec is
exhibiting at, to Promat in Chicago in January,
and we also invite you to take advantage of our
upcoming super sale.
The entire Bleutec
team is motivated and ready to give you the best
service, so dont hesitate to call us with your
caster requests!
Signed,
Luc Turcotte
Editor
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| Kinecor
Concord
 Bleutec,
together with Kinecor Concord, will be starting
to talk more and more about Blickle casters
in the GTA, as Intek Automation from Mississauga
has become part of the Kinecor group.
This means that Kinecor
now has more branches in the GTA and southwestern
Ontario: Mississauga, Concord, Stoney Creek,
London, Sarnia, and Windsor.
Kinecor will be
joining Bleutec at the upcoming CMW show, so
make sure you stop in to say hello!
Nancy
Allen
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| Sale
 It’s
been over a year that we’ve
been working with our new
partner, Blickle. When we
think “new supplier”,
we sometimes think of new
series, added and complimentary
products, and in some cases,
duplicate products.
Right
now, we’re analyzing
our inventory and preparing
to offer to our customers
in the next few weeks a SUPER
LIQUIDATION SALE.
Watch
your incoming e-mails in order
to benefit from our low prices
on some of our series. If
you have projects that you’re
working on and are looking
for quality casters at a great
price, please call our office
or your sales representative
to take advantage of our sale
of discontinued items.
We hope
that we can help you increase
your profits by benefiting
from this sale!
Lut Turcotte |
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is now part of ICWM
This past June, Bleutec
officially became a member of the Institute of
Caster and Wheel Manufacturers, which is an affiliated
trade association of the Material Handling Industry
of America (www.mhia.org).
Bleutec is now part of the
10-member ICWM council that meets twice a year
to discuss standards, education, and issues concerning
the material handling industry. This will give
us the opportunity to get really involved in North
America’s material handling market.
ICWM’s purpose is
to educate users on products, develop guidelines
and standards in the material handling field that
involves casters, wheels, industrial trailer trucks,
platform trucks, and towline trucks. Also, ICWM
maintains liaisons with government agencies and
other organizations, which permits its members
to be aware of changes and to provide input on
education and standards.
We’ll be attending
the upcoming fall meeting, so be on the lookout
for an article about it in the next edition of
the Leader.com.
Nancy Allen
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Philippe’s
thoughts…
 This
past June, I started on a new adventure, and most
of the time, adventures bring an uncertainty factor,
and uncertainty sometimes creates fears.
I can say that, since June, my adventure is “rolling”
along smoothly. I’m surrounded by an experienced
team, and some are so experienced that I sometimes
wonder if they’re not the ones who invented
the wheel!
As a result, their experience
has made my learning process that much easier.
Things are fast-paced at Bleutec, and it’s
all part of being amongst a dynamic group, which
I really enjoy. I am therefore very enthused about
being part of Bleutec’s team.
I’ve already started
to meet some of Bleutec’s customers, and
it’s a real pleasure. For those of you who
I have not yet had the chance to meet, I’ll
be getting the opportunity to meet you in the
upcoming weeks. See you soon!
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Monthly
Cartoon
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CMW
September 26 – 28, 2006
Don’t forget
that Bleutec will be exhibiting at the upcoming
Canadian Manufacturing Week Show in Toronto
from September 26th to the 28th. If you’re
at the show, make sure you stop in at booth
#827 to meet Luc, Philippe, and Nancy, and see
our new Blickle heavy duty casters.
Hope to see you there!
Canadian Manufacturing
Week
International Center, Mississauga
Bleutec Booth #827
September 26 – 28, 2006
Show hours:
Tuesday September 26: 9:00 – 5:00
Wednesday September 27: 9:00 – 7:00
Thursday September 28: 9:00 – 4:00
http://www.reedexpo.ca/cmw/
Nancy
Allen
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New
products
Blickle has just introduced
a new wheel and new caster.
The Blickle “Easy
Roll” wheel
The new “Easy Roll” wheel is made
of a gray elastic rubber with a shore hardness
of 65 Shore A, and is vulcanized to the polyamide
center which gives it a non-detachable connection
to the center. The greatest advantage of this
wheel is that it has a very low starting and rolling
effort, which could be reduced by as much as 40%
when compared to other standard rubber wheels.
The “Easy Roll”
wheel fits into the majority of Blickle rigs,
and is suitable for institutional applications
where low starting effort, reduced noise, and
floor-saving/non-marking properties are required.
LHD Caster Series
With the LHD series, Blickle
has topped off its heavy duty line by introducing
this new dual caster that can support very heavy
loads where there are height restrictions.
The LHD series is available
for a 4 or 5 inch wheel, with the caster’s
weight capacity ranging from 770 to 1,760 lbs.
The LHD rig can be assembled with one of the following
3 wheels:
ALEV wheel: elastic rubber
wheel with aluminium center which provides a low
starting effort, easy rollability, and floor-saving
characteristics.
ALTH wheel: Blickle Extrathane®
polyurethane wheel with aluminium center which
provides a high resistance to abrasion, even at
high weight capacities.
SPO wheel: quality nylon
6 wheel which provides a high resistance to chemical
products or aggressive agents, and that can be
used in the most sterile environments.
Please don’t
hesitate to contact us if you would like to have
more technical data on these wheels and casters.
Luc
Turcotte
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Blickle
CAD downloads
With an extensive product range such as
the one offered by Blickle, sometimes trying
to make sense of 20,000 different types
of casters and wheels can be a challenge
from a design standpoint.
Therefore, Blickle makes it easy and convenient
to integrate casters to your new rolling
equipment designs by offering a CAD file
download service that can be found at www.blickle.de.
The following link will take you directly
into Blickle’s website where you will
find all information in order to obtain
CAD files: click
here!
Please do not hesitate to register for
your login name and password, and take advantage
of this tool’s convenience and accuracy
when the time comes to innovate with Blickle
wheels and casters.
Frederic
Lagace
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More show news!
For the 7th consecutive
time, Bleutec will be exhibiting at Promat 2007
in Chicago from January 8 – 11th.
We already have our booth
location, #5431, and we’re starting to
prepare the invitations and get the samples
ready. (Please don’t hesitate to call
us if you require any extra passes).
Make sure you read
the upcoming edition of the Leader as we’ll
have more details for Promat 2007.
Nancy
Allen |
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