VAASA, Finland, June 10, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- The Finland-based AC drives manufacturer Vacon introduces the new Vacon X product line. These easy-to-use AC drives are designed for harsh environments, enduring dirt, dust, humidity and liquids. The Vacon X series is targeted at the food and beverage industry, material handling, and water and waste water treatment, but is ideally suited for all tough industrial applications.
"The new Vacon X series of AC drives supports our main value discipline, product leadership," says Heikki Hiltunen, Executive Vice President, Vacon. "It is a rugged family of variable speed AC drives, built and designed for harsh industrial environments. From simple applications to those requiring advanced communications, the Vacon X series offers an increasing level of performance and features for the industrial environment. Capabilities ranging from simple press-and-run keypad operation to a real-time clock, advanced PLC functions or a USB interface are available."
The Vacon X series of AC drives are available in IP66 enclosures through 75 kW and in IP55 to 132 kW for the ultimate environmental protection. The new Vacon X series is ideally configured for any industrial application where data collection, flexible interfacing, and automatic sequencing operation are a priority.
Vacon offers AC drives that accelerate the customer's business. For Vacon product leadership means a broad product selection, outstanding AC drive expertise, customer relationship management, the latest technology and mass customization.
The Vacon family of variable speed AC drives was complemented by this new product line after Vacon acquired the AC drives business of US-based TB Wood's in January 2008. First introduced by TB Wood's in 2005, these products are sold under their original SE2, X4 and X5 names in the US.
The Vacon X series will be introduced at the annual Vacon Drives Conference held this year in Tallinn, Estonia, on June 9-12. A total of some 250 people will participate in the Vacon Drives Conference 2008.
Vacon in brief:
Vacon was established in 1993 from a passion to develop and produce AC drives globally. It is a matter of honour for Vacon to offer customers efficient, reliable and easy to use means for improving process control and saving energy and costs. Vacon's solutions represent clean technology. They can be used to control the speed of electric motors used by industry and municipal engineering, and in power generation using renewable energy. Vacon provides AC drives in the power range 0.25 kW - 5 MW. Revenues in 2007 totalled EUR 232.2 million.
Vacon Group