Customised solutions Gearbox Assist Drives

Phil Black - PII Editor 04/02/2010

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Calls for ever higher productivity puts high demands on critical pieces of process plant. Often the limiting factor to increasing production are large gearboxes already working at their limit, but the cost of replacement is very high.

Hägglunds Drives, in co-operation with the gearbox people, can offer affordable solutions to this quandary by using their large hydraulic drives to assist the existing set up. This not only adds power to the plant and relieves the existing gearbox, thereby providing extended life, but the function and performance of the plant can often be improved with immediate paybacks.

Hägglunds complete drive systems are also used on all kinds of Industrial and Marine applications as direct hydraulic drives, eliminating gearboxes completely.
Many thousands are in operation all around the world on feeders/conveyors, drums, presses, mills, mixers, cutterheads and winches. They provide an attractive, simple and compact drive solution with many benefits in operation and are very user friendly.

For further information please contact;

Hägglunds Drives Ltd. Foxbridge Way, Normanton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF6 1 TN
Switchboard: + 44 (0)192 422 0100.

E-mail: sales@uk.hagglunds.com

Web: www.hagglunds.com