Siemens plans €3bn spin-off of large motors and drives
17 November 2022 Siemens is planning to combine several businesses in its motors and drives portfolio to create an integrated motors and large drives supplier with joint revenues… Read More
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Tiny servodrive is the world’s ‘smallest and fastest’
21 October 2022 The Spanish servodrive developer, Ingenia, claims to have produced the world’s smallest and fastest servodrive. Its 3kW Everest S drive has a starting weight of… Read More
DFA Media sells the Drives Show but keeps the magazine
9 October 2022 DFA Media Group has sold the Drives & Controls Show, and its co-located events – Plant & Asset Management, Fluid Power & Systems, Airtech and… Read More
WEG buys Gefran drives for €23m to boost EU capacity
3 August 2022 The Brazilian motion engineering and automation company WEG is buying the Motion Control business of the Italian automation and sensors manufacturer Gefran for around €23m. Read More
Entries are about to close for 2022/23 Buyer’s Guide
12 July 2022 The July/August edition of Drives & Controls magazine will contain our annual Buyer’s Guide for Drives, Automation, Power Transmission and Motion Control. For more than… Read More
Control Techniques co-founder Trevor Wheatley dies at 79
4 July 2022 Trevor Wheatley, the co-founder and former chairman of Control Techniques, and a pioneer in the variable-speed drives industry, has died at the age of 79. Read More
Siemens appoints Black-Smith to run Motion Controls
23 June 2022 Siemens has appointed Sarah Black-Smith as general manager of its Motion Control business in the UK. She was previously as head of factory operations at… Read More
Schneider sells Eurotherm controls business to Watlow
9 June 2022 Schneider Electric is selling its UK-headquartered Eurotherm business to Watlow, the US designer and manufacturer of industrial thermal systems, for an undisclosed sum. Read More
D&C Show brings face-to-face meetings back to the NEC
24 May 2022 The Drives & Controls Show and its co-located manufacturing industry events – Smart Industry Expo, Plant and Asset Management, Fluid Power & Systems and Air-Tech… Read More
First pneumatic cobot will cost less than electric rivals
16 May 2022 Festo has previewed what it claims will be the world’s first pneumatic cobot. It says that the device – due to go on sale in… Read More
