Varispeed has received the 2016 Yaskawa Drives and Motion division partner of the year award for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region and presented during the Yaskawa Europe International Partner Conference held in January. The award acknowledges outstanding performance in the business development, after-sales support and innovation of customised customer specific solutions with Yaskawa variable speed drives.
Left to right: Ralph Real (Varispeed), Rolf Lung (Varispeed), Erik van Driel (Yaskawa) and Ralph Klein (Yaskawa).
Varispeed is synonymous with best-in-class solutions and has been a partner of Yaskawa for 25 years. It serves a uniquely African market supported by a reputation for innovative, customised and highly reliable motor control solutions, ranging from low voltage, low power applications to medium voltage and high power applications. Varispeed is also the only author-ised service centre for Yaskawa variable speed drives for the sub-Saharan region.
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