Category: Food+Beverage

Due to their affordability, reliability, and flexibility, electric motors are used in countless applications, many of which we encounter daily. Electric motors power many consumer items, from your electric coffee maker to your garage door opener. Electric motors also power many specialized applications we overlook, such as security, medical, robotics, and foodservice. Nearly anything that…
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Gear motors are used in applications that require lower shaft speed and higher torque output. This describes a wide range of applications and scenarios, including many of the machines and equipment we interact with on a daily basis. From ATV wipers to hospital beds, servo mechanisms to packaging equipment, paint mixers to juice dispensers, gear…
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AC motors are viable power sources for a range of applications due to their flexibility, efficiency and quiet operation. General uses for AC motors include pumps, water heaters, lawn and garden equipment, ovens, and off-road motorized equipment. In fact, many of the appliances, equipment and tools you use on a daily basis are powered by…
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Plastic planetary gear motors can provide a wide range of gear reduction ratios in a compact package, combining high strength, low noise, and great value. They have one or more stages of gear reduction, all in line with the motor shaft with gears made of plastic. The outer body or casing can also be made…
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Slushies:  flavored frozen drink, a staple of summer, a favorite treat at the convenience store. For this commercial slush machine manufacturer:  the gear motor component with a high rate of failure. Power Electric provided a new solution for their gear motor and has more than a ten-year proven service history. We offered a different gear…
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Our food service equipment manufacturer worked with a motor manufacturer already. We approached them with an opportunity to obtain better pricing while maintaining their current quality and performance. We worked with our contracted manufacturers and priced a motor with the same form, fit and function as their previous motor. The quality was unchanged, the performance…
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Have you come across a motor supplier who was unable to provide the exact motor you needed? They found something close but not quite what you need which forced you to consider redesigning your application. It cost you time, money and production. Sounds frustrating and we get it. We’ve been selling motors for thirty years…
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Picture it. You’re walking a neighborhood street in NYC. You spy a sandwich shop. The one that makes your sub sandwich in front of you, with all your favorite toppings. The one that toasts bread and melts cheese in the conveyor oven and before you even see your sandwich, the aroma hits you. Your mouth…
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