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Bharat Bijlee’s achieves milestone of 10,000 drives

Bharat Bijlee handed over its 10,000th needs. Automation is going to play a Variable Speed Drives/ Servo drives and
A.C. drive to its customer Ferromatik vital role in the coming years, and engineered automation solutions. They
Milacron India (FMI) on April 21st 2017, it will be important for machine are exclusive partners of KEB, Germany
at a celebratory function at its factory manufacturers like Milacron and and have an ISO 9001-2015 compliant
in Airoli, Navi Mumbai. The machine automation experts like Bharat Bijlee plant for assembling KEB drives as
was received by Mr. Shirish Divgi, to collaborate to help businesses well as a full-fledged service centre.
expand.” Over 7000 servo solutions have been

Mr. Bhadresh Dani, VP, Drives & supplied to the plastics machinery
Automation, Bharat Bijlee commented industry, which remains a key growth
“Over the last 7 years, we have learnt a driver. Automation solutions have
lot from our partner FMI that has helped also been supplied for demanding
us refine our products and services in applications in other industry sectors
line with needs of the Plastic industry. like textiles, packaging, cranes,
We hope to take this partnership to printing, and machine tools.
the next level by providing custom Future plans include offering IIoT
automation applications for Plastic
Mr. Shirish Divgi, Managing Director, FMI receiving
Bharat Bijlee’s 10000th drive from Mr. Bhadresh industry, increased troubleshooting
Dani, VP, Drives & Automation, Bharat Bijlee support, SLAs, and new integrated
offerings with torque motor and IE4
Managing Director of FMI.
motor.”
Ferromatik Milacron India (FMI), He added “Servo solutions form a
a part of Milacron Inc., USA, is a majority of our installed base. With
leading manufacturer of Plastics our specialized application skills and
Injection Molding Machines, Blow wide service network concentrated
Molding Machines and Extrusion around major industry clusters, we’re
Systems, serving the entire gamut confident of supporting customers on Mr. Shirish Divgi, Managing Director, FMI receiving
partnership trophy from Mr. Nakul Mehta,
of Plastics applications. FMI focuses servo solutions across a wide range of Managing Director, Bharat Bijlee
upon the technologies that assist their applications in multiple industries such
customers to reduce both overall per as machine tools, packaging, metal based automation solutions, partnering
piece production cost and energy and textiles” with customers to fulfil their own new
consumption. product developments, and leveraging
Bharat Bijlee is headquartered in
On the occasion, Mr. Divgi said “I Mumbai, India and has a national sales the range of super-premium efficiency
would like to congratulate the entire and service network. Established in IE4 motors and torque motors to
team of Bharat Bijlee on achieving the 1946, it is a leading manufacturer of build energy efficient solutions in
milestone of 10,000 drives. Looking power transformers, industrial motors applications that call for precision and
back, we feel that we made the right and magnet technology machines productivity.
decision by associating with Bharat for elevators and other specialised
Bijlee as our automation partner, as applications.
they bring-in latest knowledge of the
industry and applications and have Bharat Bijlee’s Drives & Automation
a deep understanding of customer’s division was created in in 2007 to offer

23 May 2017 | Plastics News