BAUMA 2025

Hydraulic systems have evolved to maximize the predictability of actuation speed.
Flow compensation is a well-known technology that mechanically corrects the actuator speed if it exceeds the operator's demand due to inertial load. This is achieved by a mechanical device, which introduces a pressure drop to limit the flow when necessary.

EPX, part of Walvoil's Hydraulic Digital Solutions, innovates beyond industry standards with a three-way device that not only limits the actuator speed, but also recovers stored gravitational and kinetic energy. Tests on wheel loaders have shown energy savings of 20% by combining recoverable energy and reduced compensation losses.

Walvoil's new Innovation Center is now fully operational. Born in 2023 as part of an investment plan of over thirty million euros, its main aim was to become a Research center of excellence in the field of hydraulics, and to enable the company to expand and deepen its innovation, development and testing capabilities.

An evolution of the previous Test Department, the center covers over 3000 m² and an external area of almost 2000 m² dedicated to vehicle testing, and can count on around 30 specialized personnel.

It is above all in the activities on vehicles available at the Innovation Center, either its own or those of customers, that Walvoil is committing many of its resources, so as to make a difference both in the development of more advanced and high-performance components, as the mobile machinery market now demands, and in the design and application of greater integration with electronics and the creation of greater added value in terms of system flexibility.

Walvoil expands its range of SAE cavity valves and introduces new electric proportional directional cartridges. Walvoil's proportional electric directional cartridges are designed to share the components of traditional valves, allowing for high industrialisation, broad versatility and the development of common options.

In parallel, the range of logic valves is also completed, up to the SAE16 cavity, increasingly used in the realisation of complex circuits with special functions.