Brakes and Clutch Combinations for all Indiustrial Applications

The Heavy Duty Clutch & Brake (HDCB) division of Altra Industrial Motion, including the Twiflex, Wichita and Svendborg brands, offers a standard range of brakes and clutches to address almost all industrial application requirements. Where required, the expert knowledge of the engineering teams also enables Altra to excel at delivering bespoke solutions.

Brake system duties may vary and each application often presents its own unique challenges: Typically a safety-critical element of a drive, it is essential they precisely meet the demands for performance, service, maintenance, quality and costs. These three brands are world leaders in the provision of such braking solutions.

Twiflex Limited – global leader in Advanced Braking Technology – manufactures the widest range of caliper disc brakes for industrial use, including turnkey, custom packages to service specific customer requests.

The product line ranges from the compact MU series of lever brakes to the VMS-DP; a modular caliper design which is one of the world’s largest spring applied units, with clamping forces in excess of 900 kN.

Wichita produce a range of multi-plate clutch and brake systems designed to deliver reliable and efficient performance in demanding applications. Products include oil-in-shear technology – an inherently fully-sealed concept for harsh operating environments – and the water-cooled “AquaMakks” solution to high energy dissipation requirements.

A more recent addition to the Altra group stable is the Svendborg brand, which has decades of experience in engineering caliper brakes and whose extensive knowledge and expertise has made it a leading global force in industries including wind power generation, mining and marine.

These skills and a worldwide presence, enable Svendborg to deliver products that are engineered and certified for some of the most exacting applications in the harshest of operating conditions.

Altra’s focussed portfolio provides the expertise, knowledge and experience to deliver market leading solutions, for almost every power transmission application, thanks to the combination of diverse standard products and bespoke engineered solutions.