Electric Drives

The electrical engineering company Leroy Somer, being one of the largest manufacturers of low-voltage DC and AC electric motors, synchronous and asynchronous generators, gearboxes and gear motors, has long remained aloof from direct participation in the development and production of control devices for its own electric machines, preferring to use the equipment of subsidiaries of the Emerson Group in its projects.

But the peculiarity of working with end users and OEMs of equipment (up to 80% of the equipment produced by Leroy Somer is individually manufactured to meet the requirements of the customer's technological process, 20%-serial equipment) forced Leroy Somer to take full responsibility for the reliability of the electric drive system and start producing its own series of AC Powerdrive drives.

Today, in the global electric drive market, Leroy Somer, with its complete electric drive solution - the tandem of the Powerdrive MD2/FX electric drive and the CPLS, FLSES, PLSES, LSRPM series of electric motors, successfully competes with the world leaders in the industry. Such results were achieved only thanks to one of the company's principles: "Our competence in the field of building automated electric drive systems is several orders of magnitude higher than that of our customers, and therefore our area of responsibility should always be more than just the production of individual components. The continuity of the technological process – for this we develop and manufacture our equipment."

Today, our engineers are actively using Powerdrive MD2/FX frequency converters to build automated electric drive systems in such industries as paper, metallurgical, mining, chemical, sugar, cable, and cement...