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Stepper and Servo Drives, Motors, Controls
News Release from: Motion Control Products | Subject: ABB machinery drive
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 21 February 2008
Servo drive targets machinery builders
As the UK's first national distributor for the new ABB machinery drive, Motion Control Products will will stock the entire range from 0.75 to 110kW.
Bournemouth-based Motion Control Products has been named as the UK's first national distributor for the new ABB machinery drive The company will stock the entire range from 0.75 to 110kW
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 15 Oct 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The target market is machinery builders looking for servo drives at highly competitive prices for applications such as extruders, calenders, winders and unwinders, slitters, sheeters, laminators, automatic storage, conveyors and pick and place systems.
Motion Control Products is looking to sell several hundred units in the first year.
"This is an excellent product and marks ABB's entry into the servo drives arena".
"It is a remarkable product that not only achieves servo performance but one that can also be used with standard induction motors, asynchronous or synchronous servomotors".
"The big attraction for us is that it is competitively priced", says Stephen McKay, Sales Director of Motion Control Products.
Graham Barlow, who heads ABB's high performance machinery drive team, says: "Motion Control Products is a well established and competent organisation and an ideal partner to help us achieve our market and sales targets".
"The ABB machinery drives are technically leading in functionality and are very well built".
"The partnership with ABB provides a perfect extension to what we already do", adds McKay.
Motion Control Products is a specialist distributor of motion control systems, stepper, servo motors and drives, linear actuators and gearboxes.
It is also a specialist motion control system design house.
The company specialises in the supply of cost effective, innovative products for the automation industry and has been at the forefront of advanced motion control and factory automation for the last 12 years.
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