Here at FRANCIS AND FRANCIS, one of our most popular product Groups is the right angle gearbox produced by the Italian manufacturer Poggi

Achieving EXCEPTIONAL CORROSION RESISTANCE, for application in the FOOD, PHARMACEUTICALS, SHIPBUILDING, CHEMICALS, TEXTILE, PAPER, PHOTOGRAPHIC and other Industries, POGGI’s latest innovative, ‘ergonomic’ design of the A.5000 Series, AISI 316 Stainless Steel (Gleason Spiral Bevels) Right Angle Gearboxes, matches the external, flange, connections & shaft dimensions of the A.4000 Aluminium Series; thereby enabling full ‘interchangeability’.

35% discount on all Poggi current stock items (while stocks last).

REH introduces the Team to the latest KBK products, aided by a Demo.

Following a successful introduction on the first line, in 2006, the decision to replace a further 40 small hydraulic motors mounted on rolls, in pairs, on a second 20-stand food forming line was taken.

Packing up POGGI Conical ‘LOK-FIT’ Rings for export to Indonesia, for mounting conveyor drive pulleys onto drive shafts, without Keys, in a cigarette production factory.

Higher efficiency, geared Electric Motor drive unit pairs, finely controlled by linked Inverters, were installed on a 19-stand food forming line.

For a multi-station print coating test line, a batch of 4 smaller Schmidt-Kupplung®, Type S 150 were supplied to R. K. Printcoat to achieve highly accurate, precision colour print coating (one colour over another), to within microns. This demanded accurate product transfer between the 4 stations.

A roll gap height adjustment, by up to +/- 1.5mm (i.e., total 3mm movement when input set in middle) is achieved from the ‘radially-free’ offset capacity of this, relatively small & compact, yet torsionally stiff, Semiflex® ‘inline’, type NFB 7.7/2-A2/A2 (old designation).

Exponential Sales growth in Germany (& Overseas), in less than 3 years of producing metal Bellows, Flexible Spider and Overload/safety drive Couplings, has encouraged the owners of the manufacturing & marketing company KBK Antriebstechnik GmbH (experienced Production & Design Engineers from the industry), to seek expansion into the UK & Eire markets.