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MDA Technologies 4/2015

MDA Technologies 4/2015

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Antriebstechnik Worldwide News Subsidiary in Eindhoven strengthens Faulhaber’s presence in Benelux Faulhaber establishes its new distribution company to cater the demands of Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherlands. The newly-established distribution company is based in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Faulhaber was previously represented in these three countries by Minimotor Benelux. “We can now look after the markets in this region directly from our own company. By doing this we become closer to our customers, particularly for the joint development of customer-specific products. Furthermore, we are strengthening our strategic presence in an important export HydraForce moves to new facility in HydraForce, an international manufacturer of electrohydraulic controls, has moved into a brand new 11,150 sq.meters facility in the Advanced Manufacturing Hub in Birmingham. The new facility adds 7,000 sq.meters of manufacturing capacity. The three-story building has production and testing areas on the ground floor, engineering, sales offices and training areas on the first and second floors. HydraForce is the first tenant of Birmingham’s Advanced Manufacturing Hub, one of six economic zones identified by the City Council to drive Birmingham’s future growth ambitions. The privately-owned company operates a total of five manufacturing facilities, including the new facility in Birmingham, its corporate headquarters, innovation center, and precision machining center in North America and a manifold assembly plant in Asia. The new facility will improve speed to market, not just to the UK, but throughout Europe, as more than 80 % of the products built in Birmingham will be exported. This expansion also means an increase in job opportunities. Employment at HydraForce in Birmingham is expected to increase from 280 to 500 people by 2018. www.hydraforce.com Nanotec increases production capacities in China market. Not only do the Benelux countries have an excellent infrastructure, but they are also an economic cluster of global importance with well-constructed cross-border networks.” declared Marcus Remmel, Head of Sales and Managing Director of Faulhaber, Benelux. Faulhaber specializes in the development, production and deployment of high-precision small and miniaturized drive systems, servo components and drive electronics. Faulhaber also provides customer-specific complete solutions for medical technology, automatic placement machines, precision optics, telecommunications, aerospace and robotics, among other things. www.faulhaber.com German motor manufacturer Nanotec is increasing its production areas in China. In early June 2105, Nanotec’s Chinese subsidiary moved its production of motor controllers, Plug & Drive motors with integrated controller, and linear actuators into a new building in ChangZhou. In July the stepper and BLDC motor production will also be moved into a larger building with a total area of 18,000 m 2 on the same site. With the move Nanotec expects to increase production capacities by a further 50 % in the next two years. Only last year Nanotec opened a second development site in Pegnitz, Germany, where the focus is primarily on the development of new motor controllers and sensors. www.nanotec.com Motion, Drive and Automation 30 Maintenance-free bearings support one of the world’s longest suspension bridges I N T E R N AT I O N A L E D I T I O N 6 September 2013 Click to read previous issues. Inspiration is just one click away. News about the following markets: 18 MDA Technologies 4/2015 16 geared Gravel plant reduces costs and maintenance by using motors www.mda-technologies.com 18 26 Winter Standard components are used to drive scraper chain conveyors in Norway Air Springs: keeping things moving at the 2014 Olympic Games in cooperation with Fluidtechnik

Birmingham, England Bonfiglioli’s premiers in Shanghai Power transmission specialists, Bonfiglioli Group inaugurated its new workshop in Qingpu Industrial Park, Shanghai. Established in 1956, Bonfiglioli Group, today has revenues over € 700 million. Bonfiglioli Drives Shanghai (BDS) was established in 2003, as a small trading company to cater the Chinese market. With the new workshop BDS will consolidate the step to be a manufacturing company with full localization strategy. The new production Schaeffler Technology Center – Bangkok Schaeffler Asia Pacific has added yet another feather to its cap with its Bangkok office attaining Schaeffler Technology Center (STC) certification. STCs are local centers of technical excellence focusing on the region they are located in. The Bangkok location joins 26 others spread throughout the globe, and demonstrates Schaeffler’s commitment to providing customized engineering expertise to customers regardless of wherever they may be. The certification is part of the Schaeffler Global Technology Network (GTN) where local know ledge from within each region is brought together with the knowhow and innovative power of Schaeffler experts from all over the world. STCs are only given the certification after a thorough audit in which the organizations have to demonstrate a specific range of high-standard knowledge in twelve competencies relating to bearings solutions such as mounting services and failure analysis. With Bangkok as STC, the local and regional customers now have easier access to Schaeffler’s global expertise. This proximity will reduce the lead time for delivering solutions from engineers who are familiar with local requirements but at the same time, have access to a global support system in the shape of the GTN. www.schaeffler.com SEAL TECHNOLOGY PREMIUM QUALITY SINCE 1867 COG MAKES ITS MARK: The world‘s largest O-ring warehouse. facility of around 30,000 m 2 , with nearly 200 employees, can fully support the local demands. The strong after-sales service system also could provide the quickest service to the markets, further optimizing the supply chain within the group. The local product line could produce widely size worm gear, gear-motor, industrial heavy duty gearbox, in-line planetary gearbox, slewing gearbox and the special gearbox for trans-mixer. These product portfolios are able to fully satisfy the Chinese market demands for wind, mobile, industrial and marine applications. Through the new investment Bonfiglioli group in China can provide local solutions with higher cost efficiency product according to the local application demands. Precision O-rings in 45,000 variants ready fordelivery. www.bonfiglioli.com PTC ASIA SHANGHAI 27 –30October 2015 Visit us in: hall E6,booth B2-1 www.COG.de

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