MSC INDUSTRIAL Direct has included gearmotors from Bison Gears for the first time in its 2008 Motor Catalogue.
14/07/2008
RESEARCHERS from the Physics department of the Sharif Industrial University in Iran have developed the first ever ‘liquid motor.’
12/08/2008
SEAGEN, the world’s first commercial tidal current turbine in Northern Ireland’s Strangford Lough, is running with bearings from NKE Austria.
30/06/2009
THE MOTION Control Association (MCA) has elected its first permanent board of directors as well as setting its agenda for 2010.
15/02/2010
ABB has announced that the one millionth unit of its standard drive family has rolled off the production line.
26/02/2009
BALDOR Electric CEO John McFarland says 2009 is already looking like being a bad year and the indications are that it will only get worse.
01/05/2009
WELLINGTON Drive Technologies has won a grant from the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology to develop its motor products.
15/05/2008
SIEMENS’ gearless mill drives have been used by Equinox Minerals at their Lumwana Copper Project.
02/07/2008
THE Electric Motor Education & Research Foundation (EMERF) has announced a competition for college students to design innovative home healthcare machinery with electric motors.
29/10/2008
VACON Pacific and partner Hyteco Australia will be showcasing their range of drive packages at the 2008 Queensland Mining Exhibition (QME).
05/06/2008
MAXON Motor has supplied electro-motors to NASA for the Phoenix Mars Lander Mission.
23/07/2008
ROTORK Australia says it has recently installed two CVA-1200 rotary actuators at the Koppers continuous tar distillation facility in Newcastle, New South Wales.
24/11/2009
THE TIMKEN Company has announced it has finalised the sale of its Needle Roller Bearings business to Japan’s JTEKT.
20/01/2010
SEW-EURODRIVE has launched its first Australian-assembled X-Series industrial gear-unit following an upgrade to its Melbourne-based assembly facility.
23/02/2010
BISON Gear is hosting a video on its website which highlights the details of its latest line of energy efficient, three-phase AC gearmotors.
09/01/2009
ROCKWELL Automation says its upcoming On Tour ’09 industry road shows will incorporate a New Product Pavilion, in which several products, such as the Allen-Bradley PowerFlex 755 AC drive, will be unveiled.
11/03/2009
BONFIGLIOLI has commissioned a production and testing line in Sydney, which will manufacture the HDP parallel shaft, HDO bevel helical and new HD modular helical gear drives for the Asia-Pacific market.
16/03/2009
SEW-EURODRIVE and Festo say the first year of a design competition they launched across seven South African Universities is nearing completion.
23/07/2008
AMERICAN Superconductor (AMSC) and Northrop Grumman say their world first 36.5MW high-temperature superconductor (HTS) ship propulsion motor, could lead to the development of all-electric vessels.
18/02/2009
IMS RESEARCH has revised its earlier forecast for the global low-voltage AC and DC drive market, saying that the sector will shrink by 5.6% in 2009.
07/05/2009