
Use in variable-speed drives
Control Techniques has expanded its range of high-power modular drive controllers. The Unidrive M and Powerdrive F300 frequency inverters are available in the larger size 11 for use in variable-speed drives.
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Control Techniques has expanded its range of high-power modular drive controllers. The Unidrive M and Powerdrive F300 frequency inverters are available in the larger size 11 for use in variable-speed drives.

The TQ Group, based in Seefeld near Munich, has announced that it will be launching its own servo inverter technology under the RoboDrive brand at the end of 2016.

The Italian drive technology manufacturer Bonfiglioli is selling its photovoltaic division to the Spanish company Ingeteam and intends to focus more strongly on its core business in future.

Keith D. Nosbusch, CEO of Rockwell Automation, has published the figures for the second quarter of 2016. According to the figures, the provider of industrial automation and information solutions recorded a 7.1% drop in sales to USD 1.4 billion compared to the same quarter of the previous year.

"We can look back on a successful financial year," summarized ABB Germany CEO Hans-Georg Krabbe when announcing the figures for 2015. While order intake increased in all divisions, sales in the automation divisions fell slightly.

With a turnover of EUR 730 million in 2015, Italian drive specialist Bonfiglioli has reported the record year in its almost sixty-year history. After 653 million euros in 2014, this represents growth of almost 12%.

The Munich-based private equity company Palero Invest has sold its shares in Heidrive. The buyer is the US drive technology specialist Allied Motion Technologies.

With Light+Building in Frankfurt and the Hannover Messe, two important events for the automation industry are casting their shadows ahead. ABB has now announced its first innovations for both trade fairs.
At a press conference on the SPS IPC Drives, Bonfiglioli presented what it is bringing along new to this year‘s SPS IPC Drives – from control cabinet inverters through servo inverters to precision planetary gears.