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Here at Barber-Nichols, we love to make donating fun. For every employee wearing a sports jersey or t-shirt repping favorite teams, Barber-Nichols donated $5 to Foothills Animal Shelter.

BNI teamed with Lockheed Martin to work on an unmanned, lighter-than-air vehicle that will maintain a geostationary position at an altitude of 65,000 feet. The vehicle, known as a High Altitude Airship (HAA), is being built by Lockheed Martin and is being funded by the Missile Defense Agency. Specifically, Barber-Nichols designed and produced the transonic fans…

Optimized design for product performance in a real-world application   Application Expertise  – Reducing fuel consumption is a growing priority as Large Commercial Vehicles (LCV) contribute to increasing levels of greenhouse gas emissions. Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) systems recover power from engine waste heat to increase efficiency. BNI has designed an additively manufactured dual-entry turbine…

Why Choose Barber-Nichols? We don’t just print “best-effort” parts – we design, analyze, and optimize to print parts that meet your requirements, offering: Comprehensive understanding of application requirements Informed selection of candidate components for additive manufacturing Help build your business case comparing conventional 5-axis milling vs. investment casting vs. 3D printing Exhaustive material property database…

Winter 2020 – February 10-13, 2020 Location: Sarasota, FL Cost: $2750 To register or for more information visit www.nobullengineering.com. Click here to view the brochure.

We are excited about our move into a 4,000 SF space, tripling our foil bearing production and research space.

We are very excited to have just shipped a custom Foil Bearing Thrust Test Rig to an international customer.  

Barber-Nichols Inc. (BNI) is pleased to be delivering four liquid argon pumps to CERN in support of ProtoDUNE, the prototype liquid argon detector that will inform the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) construction and operation. Despite being some of the most abundant particles in the universe, neutrinos are extremely difficult to observe and DUNE seeks to help…

“Published Now and Then (When We Have Something We Want To Share)” 2018 was a very big year for Xdot! The highlights included solving vibration problems for clients, researching topics in rotating machinery and providing foil bearings to customers on three continents. Foil Bearing Innovations The Xdot wing foil bearings are proving to be a…