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GEARED MOTORS...

Rapid geared motor refurb

for food processing plant

The festive period is incredibly important for food and beverage manufacturers. With
demand sky high and lucrative supply contracts with supermarkets to fulfil, the last
thing any producer wants is profitability to be risked by unexpected downtime.
Luckily for a major food processing plant in the South West, Rotamec was able to step

in to minimise the impact of a critical gearbox failure on a large food mixer.
uring a routine equipment inspection out of action, could result in thousands of pounds of
just before Christmas 2020, engineers lost production every hour. To further increase the
at a food processing plant realised that urgency of the situation, a spare gearbox was not
Da gearbox was beginning to show signs available on site as a redundancy.
of failure. It was part of a geared motor for a large The engineers assessed their options. After
food mixer, a critical piece of equipment which, if removing the damaged gearbox, they contacted

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