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02/11/2010
ABB drive dishes up £20,000 in savings for gluten-free baker

Improved speed control on one of its production lines is enabling The Village Bakery (Nutrition) to save £20,000 per year at its Abenbury Way site in Wrexham. The installation of an ABB general machinery drive with high ingress protection (IP66) has delivered a combination of cost savings.

The new drive controls the speed of a depositing line, which is a conveyor-based system that divides the dough into the correct weights to make various rolls and loaves. The Wrexham bakery is the ...
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08/11/2010

ABB general machinery drive improves transfer conveyor’s speed and precision

See how Georgia Pacific has improved speed and precision at its tissue processing plant in Finland.  Read More

Knowledge Bank

01/11/2010

Master-follower communication in ABB industrial drives

The master-follower communication functions are designed for controlling several drives connected to the same machinery. In the master-follower arrangement one of the drives operates as master to the other drives. Typical applications include conveyors, hoists, and winders. The master-follower ...  Read More

01/11/2010

ABB machinery drives double rate of tomato packing

ABB high performance machinery drives control the speed of the tomato handling conveyors.  Read More

01/11/2010

Substantial energy savings and prolonged lifetime of conveyor belts at Vigier Cement

Swiss based Vigier Cement Ltd uses a two-conveyor system to transport limestone from its new deposit some 2,642 metres from the crusher on the hill top to the company's cement plant in the valley below.  Read More

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