Incorporated in the year 2005, Nord Drivesystems is the subsidiary of Getriebebau Nord in Germany. The company has a full-fledged assembly unit in Hinjewadi, Pune with production capacity of 42,000 units per year. All the parts are imported from our manufacturing units globally. We have a strong dealer network across the India and SAARC countries. It caters to sectors such as material handling, steel, chemical, pharmacy, food and beverages, water treatment, pumps, cement, power, solar, airport, intralogistics, and road construction. Amit Deokule, Sr General Manager-Sales & Marketing, Nord Drivesystems, elaborates on the company’s key offerings, new and emerging technologies in the bulk material handling systems. What are Nord Drives' key offerings and solutions for the Indian construction market? With extensive knowledge of applications and technical demand for the sector, we offer a full featured drive all from a single source consisting of gear units, motors, brakes and frequency inverters. With wide range of products with high quality we can offer solutions for various applications like storage, conveying, weighing and metering, loading and unloading, and more. Our product range spans from 0.12kW to 1 MW capacity offering a reliable and energy efficient drive system to our customers. We focus on total solution and process efficiency. What are the new and emerging technologies in the bulk material handling systems? We believe in gathering experience and actually addressing the challenges that are faced in any industry sector. Our R&D is continuously working towards proving solutions to typical applications in this industry. On these lines, we have come up separate range of IGUs with MAXXDRIVE XT. These are reliable drive units with maximum thermal and mechanical load capacities with greatly increased bearing life are necessary in material handling technology for transporting bulk materials. To achieve the maximum thermal load capacity, the perfect contour of the gear unit housing was developed with the aid of CFD analysis and the air flow of the integrated axial fan was optimised to achieve a highly efficient cooling effect. This avoids any external cooling required. The range starts from 15,000 nm and goes upto 75,000 nm covering a wide range of applications for bulk material handling. NORD is also developing products in line with Industry 4.0 to increase reliability and planned maintenance of the drive system including gear unit, motor and frequency inverter. Our Industry 4.0 products help to automate and digitalise material handling, and also in predictive maintenance.