Motion Control Products in Bournemouth has become the first national distributor of the new ABB machinery drive, and will stock the entire range from 0.75 to 110 kW. The target market is machinery builders looking for cost-effective servo drives 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,” comments 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.