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Crane drives from NORD:

properly dimensioned

For crane applications, Drive systems from NORD for crane with our customers to find the optimum drive
NORD DRIVESYSTEMS applications. Over dimensioning is no longer solution for their crane applications”, says
offers ready-to-install drive necessary. NORD-MAXXDRIVE - XD With new Gernot Zarp, Sales Manager at NORD. “With
our versatile product portfolio, we offer a
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sizes for the MAXXDRIVE XD industrial gear
solutions from a single unit, NORD enhances flexibility in tailor-made wide range of drive components.” The drive
source. dimensioning of drive solutions. For different specialist thus allows for individual system
types of cranes and load ranges, NORD solutions, whose power, weight, size and service
DRIVESYSTEMS offers properly dimensioned life are precisely tailored to the respective
drive solutions from a single source. For that, application.
the company can rely on locations in more “Over dimensioning the drive is therefore no
than 80 countries. In Poland, the specialist for longer necessary”, says Zarp. New sizes for
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hoisting equipment PROTEA relies on the crane MAXXDRIVE XD. Especially for the design of
& cargo competence of the complete supplier lifting gear, NORD has extended its portfolio
from North Germany. The Polish manufacturer and now offers additional MAXXDRIVE XD
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PROTEA has been relying on drive solutions and sizes. It is now possible to configure the
services from NORD DRIVESYSTEMS for years. For industrial gear unit with centre distances of
its bridge cranes used, among other things, to up to 1,281 mm. With this, the economic and
transport bales of straw in biogas production, tailor-made dimensioning of lift drives for crane
the company uses the MAXXDRIVE® industrial applications is further improved. The installation
gear units. They can cover torque ranges of up space is used optimally, significantly reducing
to 282,000 Nm. the weight of the drive. All in all, NORD provides
its customers with higher flexibility in crane
Robust parallel gear units, optimised for heavy system design.
loads. “We chose NORD components because the
For the lifting gear, PROTEA uses a robust company is a reliable partner with whom
MAXXDRIVE XD with a power of 18.5 kW. we have been working for many years”, says
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These parallel gear units build on the proven Tomasz Poprawa, Project Manager, PROTEA
UNICASE housing principle and have been a Polish crane manufacturer. “The products
specially optimised for heavy loads. Due to the are of high quality and recognised throughout
elongated arrangement of gear stages, the the world.” Poprawa highly appreciates the
housing has a large centre distance, enabling one-piece UNICASE housings with their high
a U shaped drive design. Especially with lifting durability and the low maintenance costs,
gear drives, the cable drum and the motor as well as the double seals ensuring smooth
can thus easily be arranged on the same operation without leakage.
side of the gear unit. The drives for cranes and
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trolleys also build on the MAXXDRIVE industrial For more details contact:
gear units with powers of 0.55 and 11 kW. E-Mail: India@nord.com
“Our goal is to work in close coordination Website: www.nord.com

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