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UK leads in eff1 motor applications

A Siemens Flender product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Dec 3, 2002

Power transmission giant Flender reveals that in the UK it is now selling a 'significant' proportion of high efficiency eff1 geared motors compared with 12 months ago.

Power transmission giant Flender reveals that in the UK it is now selling a 'significant' proportion of high efficiency eff1 geared motors compared with 12 months ago, a fact that bucks the European trend if a recent CEMAP (the organisation representing Europe's motor makers) survey is anything to go by.

In the wake of the Government's introduction of the Climate Change Levy (CCL), companies have been upgrading their geared units to comply, and in the UK Flender is now selling many more eff1 units than it was last year.

However, an interesting fact has emerged when comparing the UK with the rest of Europe.

In the big industrialised countries like France, Germany and Italy, where the CCL has not yet been enforced through penalties or incentives, companies are continuing to specify lower efficiency eff2 units, and eff1 sales are much slower.

A recent CEMAP survey shows eff2 sales at 80% and eff1 sales at 20%.

Of this latter figure, Flender believes most are being sold in the UK.

This means UK industry is already surging ahead of its European counterparts when making efficiency improvements, as Flender's Paul Dudley observes: "In the UK the end user is driving sales of eff1; over half our sales are via this type of customer.

With OEMs it's much less, unless actually specified by the end user".

(This was Engineeringtalk's Top Story on 2 December 2002).

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