SEW Eurodrive celebrates 75 years

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From its beginning, SEW Eurodrive has embraced the dynamic principle that the world is shaped by movement, change and innovation - and it has used this to help shape the face of modern drive engineering over the past 75 years. The company's innovative products created the basis for developments that contributed towards making the transformation from the industrial age into the era of modern drive engineering possible.

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It was only a small step from the invention of the countershaft motor in 1928 to today's gearmotor. SEW Eurodrive has worked consistently to further develop the basic principle of an efficient gearmotor. Customers today benefit from new manufacturing processes, which have been developed to continually improve the performance and reliability of the products.

In the mid-1960s, SEW Eurodrive is believed to be the first drive engineering company to develop a modular system for the production of gearmotors. A manageable number of standard components and subassemblies formed the basis of this system. These components could now be used to create drive solutions that were simple and cost-effective to implement in next to no time. They were characterised by both their diversity and consistently high quality.

At the time when the modular system was being developed, the company was also working to open up the international markets. Owing to increasing demand from abroad, the company had already made the decision to assemble its drive solutions in the customer countries as early as the 1960s. The first SEW subsidiary was opened in Haguenau in France in 1960. From 1968, new developments followed in rapid succession. Today, SEW-Eurodrive has 11 production plants and 58 assembly centres as well as sales offices and representatives in 44 countries. The company's consistent international orientation is yet another milestone in the area of modern drive engineering.

This orientation benefits customers around the world with services that include much more than just a wide range of high-quality products. The company's competence has been confirmed over the years by the awards that it has received from independent institutes, associations and organisations.

At the beginning of the 1990s the company made the decision to start developing in-house control solutions and to establish the necessary electronics production facilities. The electronics production facility was named 'Factory of the Year' in Germany shortly after it had been opened. The electronic products are also developed on the basis of a modular system and are an important element of the company's portfolio today.

For more information contact Rene Rose, SEW Eurodrive, 011 248 7000, rrose@sew.co.za

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