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lpha gear drives, Inc: High-speed gear reducer

Alpha Gear Drives (Elk Grove Village, IL) has introduced its SP high-speed gear reducer. Designed specifically to improve continuous-duty servo motor performance for high-speed continuous applications such as packaging, converting and printing.

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Mounted directly to a servo motor, the gear reducer acts as a heat sink, cooling the motor, which allows it to run faster, longer.

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