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WEG Motors Success Cases

50 WEG Motors Success Cases WEG, that began in 1961 as a small factory of electric motors, has become a leading global supplier of electronic products for the segments of Oil & Gas, Sugar and Ethanol, Mining, Food & Beverages, Construction, Pulp and Paper, Sanitation, and the Steel Industry, among others. The search for excellence has resulted in the diversication of the business, adding products to the electric motors which provide from power generation to using energy more efciently. This diversication has been a solid foundation for the growth of the company that, for offering more...

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CST - Companhia Siderúrgica de Tubarão Record supply of motors WEG registered one of its largest individual supplies comprising 703 low voltage motors for the hot strip rolling mills at CST - Companhia Siderúrgica de Tubarão, located in Serra, in the state of Espírito Santo. The package supplied 340 motors to Toshiba Corporation and 306 motors to the also Japanese multinational, Sumitomo, and another 57 motors to the Brazilian company Inepar. All the motors which were installed in the optimization of industrial processes and installation of a new production line of hot strip rolling mills...

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Petrobras Synergy between WEG and Petrobras It is to provide the best service and offer the best products that everyone who works at WEG spends their energy every day. The goal is to attend to needs and contribute with different partners in the development of large projects in different areas. An example is WEG’s specialty in providing for the constantly evolving oil industry. Among the major end customers in this sector is Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras, a leading distributor of oil derivatives in Brazil and that, in March 2003, reached a record volume of 2.043 million barrels of oil...

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Petroquímica União, IBT Moldes and Motobombas Schneider Specic solutions Petroquímica União from São Paulo and IBT Moldes and Motobombas Schneider (Franklin Electric Group) of Santa Catarina solved problems in their applications by developing their own specific solutions from investments in WELL (WEG Extra Long Life) motors. The challenge that Petroquímica União - PQU, a petrochemical company located in the ABC region of São Paulo between Santo André and Mauá, had to face was to increase plant availability and reduce the failure rate and downtime. In 1999, the company extended its challenge...

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Petrobras Historical Opportunity “Historical opportunity” were the two words that synthesized the new moment of suppliers of goods and services of the oil industry since the discovery of huge oil reserves in the pre-salt layer off the Brazilian coast. And it could be no different. Petrobras estimates the acquisition of 200 platforms, enough to trigger a wave of investment and expansion throughout the chain. And this is only part of the demand. If it has to go almost seven kilometers deep to reach the pre-salt layer, it still means a great challenge for the domestic industry and one that...

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Sulzer Pumps Increased Safety Sulzer Pumps (one of the largest pump manufacturers in the world) hired WEG Brazil to supply four PTB certied HGF315 motors - Ex-e, to couple to their pumps. The motors were sent to the Sulzer plant in India and then shipped to Taiwan where they were installed at the CPC Corporation (Chinese Petroleum Co.) renery. 2003 Ecopetrol Pumpjack WEG’s branch in Colombia provided a package of 55 motors, 5 to 7.5 hp, for Ecopetrol, a state company in the country. The motors operate with pumpjacks in oil wells. Two 250 hp motors for pumping stations were also provided in...

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Collahuasi Mining Company Largest frames in the world In May 2003, WEG produced the largest cast iron frames of the world until then. They were delivered to the Collahuasi mining company in Chile in August 2003 to move a conveyor belt to transport rocks. The nal weight of each motor is 15,000 kg, power 2,788 kW and voltage, 2,300 volts. The machines have an efciency of 97.5% and operate at 4,700 m above sea level. The diameter of the frames is 1.4 m and they are 2.1 m long. Twenty tons of sand were used to make the mold which required the labor of 42 workers for the casting process. CBMM...

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Votorantim In most severe applications The rst complete cement factory belonging to Votorantim in Santa Catarina is already in operation. Equipped with WEG technology in motors and drives, the unit in Vidal Ramos, in the Vale do Itajaí, 180 kilometers from Florianópolis, cost about US$198 million and will boost the production of cement, supplying the markets of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul and relieving the other factories in the region. The plant is part of a major investment made by Votorantim which foresees the construction of other units in the country until 2014. Business...

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Aggmin Equipment Aggmin is one of the leading Canadian manufacturers and distributors of WEG motors for this particular application are manufactured to operate in harsh environments and are suitable for projects in the mining and cement sectors.

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Woerner Cost x benet Prominent in the national lubrication segment, Woerner, a German company that has been in Brazil for nearly 35 years, in partnership with WEG offered one of its customers in the gold mining segment, a complete solution with 16 WMining motors. WEG exclusivity for the segment, the motors can be used from the extraction to the processing of the ore. Applied in lubricating systems, which aim to reduce the friction between the bearings and shafts of mills that process ore to obtain gold, WMining motors drive the pumps that are responsible for the displacement of the...

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Alcoa Reliability in Amazon Rainforest In the heart of the Amazon, west of the state of Pará, Juruti has one of the largest deposits of high quality bauxite in the world. This is where Alcoa, a multinational aluminum industry, has a company that annually produces millions of tons of ore. Because of this high volume, one of the biggest challenges of the Bauxite Mine in Juruti is to balance the production process of storage, without generating unnecessary costs. It was essential to invest in developing a strategic and sustainable project and for that the company relied on WEG’s expertise in...

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