GUELPH, ON – Diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton Corp. has formed the Eaton Industrial Hose Unit to enhance its presence in the industrial rubber and thermoplastic hose markets. The business unit sells both direct to OEMs and through distribution.

According to Geoff Pantling, market development manager of Eaton Industrial Hose, the product offering are “exceedingly broad and fall into a number industries such as beverage, small engine, irrigation and recreational products.

“We have unique technology to do this.” The technology is a proprietary, continuous, multilayer, co-extrusion process that offers barrier properties which provide chemical resistance.

BURLINGTON, ON - Terming it an investment in engineers of the future, Endress+Hauser Canada (www.endress.com) is donating $269,000 in hardware and software to fund a new measurement laboratory for students in the Automation and Instrumentation program at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (bcit.ca) in Burnaby. The 2008 contribution by the Burlington, ON-based process measurement engineering services and solutions provider extends over three years.