Presenters at the Drive Academy seen with managing director, Ute Schoeman, from left: Francois Sieberhagen, electronics support engineer; Conrad Pilger, general manager for sales and engineering; Ute Schoeman; Stephan Reiblein, Heavy Industrial Solutions, SEW-Eurodrive Germany; Theuns Greyvenstein, application engineer; Norman Maleka, electronics manager.
SEW-Eurodrive recently hosted a presentation at the company’s Drive Academy, where its latest technology and solutions were shared. The talks covered the powerful new Girth Gear for large rotating systems such as dryers, rotary kilns or horizontal mills; the innovative new Maxolution solution, which adds substantial value to materials handling applications higher up the value chain; the easy-to-use Movi4-RU frequency inverter, which is linked to an innovative take-back scheme which ensures a closed material and raw material cycle; and the Movitrac LTP-B frequency inverter which controls the speed of asynchronous and synchronous motors without an encoder and is particularly economical in conveyor applications, hoists, fans and pumps.
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