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Siemens opens new plant for large gears…
Siemens Automation
and Drives
(A&D) has expanded
assembly capacity
for large
gears at its
Friedrichsfeld site.
Gears for marine drives and the cement industry,
and extruder gears for the plastics industry
will be manufactured here in future in an
area covering approximately 6,900m 2 . Following
completion, roller grinding mills will be produced
here for the cement or minerals industry
with rated load torques up to 4,500,000 Nm.
The plant will also produce twin-shaft extruder
gears with shaft clearances of approx.
300mm and a performance of up to 20,000 kW.
In addition to these gears, twin-motor drives
for the marine sector with 16,000 kW transmitted
power per drive shaft will also be produced
in the new hall at Friedrichsfeld.
…while Harting new facility in China
Harting Technology
Group inaugurated
new production
facility in
Zhuhai, China on
October 19, 2007.
Production is already
running at full speed. The investment of
12 million Euro in this first expansion stage is
management's response to rising demand in the
Asia Pacific markets. The production facilities
cover some 20,000m 2 . A total of 250 employees
turn out a broad product range. These
tried and tested products serve markets in
telecommunication, traffic and transport, machine
construction and the energy industries.
The company produces the tools and machines
deployed in manufacturing at its headquarters
in Germany.
SCS for the first time in Lyon
Lyon will be hosting SCS for the first time.
This is the new trade show on industrial performance
technologies: energy, automation and
transmission/mechatronics. From November
13 to 16, 2007, the 15,000 visitors will be looking
for an answer to their specific requirements
among the offer of Systems, Components
and Solutions for industry and large infrastructures,
presented by the 300 exhibitors
at Lyon Eurexpo.
SPS/IPC/DRIVES as ususal in Nuremberg
More and more novelties and outstanding
products will be presented during SPS/IPC/DRI-
VES in Nuremberg. From 27 – 29 November 2007
more than 1,200 exhibitors will present their
products there, of which more than 200 companies
will be from abroad - 19% (2006: 17%)
of the total number of exhibitors. This year a
space of more than 80,000m 2 in ten exhibition
halls will be occupied, which is another 2,500m 2
more compared to 2006. For the first time
hall 2 and hall 4 of the Nuremberg exhibition
ground will be opened as well.
Sartorius sells bearings business to Smiths
Sartorius signed an agreement with the British
technology group Smiths to sell German-based
Sartorius Bearing Technology to this Group. According
to the agreement, the Smiths Group
will retroactively purchase all of the shares in
the hydrodynamic bearing company. The purchase
price is approx. 20 million Euros. Sartorius'
unit is to be integrated into the John
Crane business of Smiths, which focuses on
the design and manufacture of seals. John
Crane will take on all 100 employees.
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