Sometimes life throws you curveballs. Here’s why there is no shame in training for a second career. - By Bill O’Leary, EA Associate Editor

“We continued to drive our Next Level strategy, generating higher revenue and operational earnings per share against significant market headwinds,” said CEO Ulrich Spiesshofer.

Cold storage facilities are dependent on cooling equipment uptime to be 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year. One occurrence of unplanned downtime could result in thousands or upwards of millions of dollars of lost product and even worse company reputation and dependability.

Providing safety and reliability to the chemical, oil & gas industry has been a long standing tradition for Baldor. Offering a complete line of electric motors and mechanical power transmission products under the Baldor-Reliance® (Link to Explosion Proof Motor Page) and Baldor-Dodge®(Link to Dodge Metallic Couplings) brands

Two weeks after completing high school, Harvey Trickel started a job as an Engineering Technician with Reliance Electric Company at the Ivanhoe Plant in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1984, Harvey transferred his engineering and quality assurance expertise to the Kings Mountain, NC facility. Sixty years after beginning work in Cleveland, he still thrives on the challenge of designing motors.

Keeping an extra motor on hand is done for one primary purpose: to reduce downtime when a motor in production fails. So it’s critically important that motors in storage are maintained as well as motors in production.

The Plant Engineering webinar "Motor Maintenance, The Predictive Way" sponsored by Baldor is now available to view on-demand!

Sometimes life throws you curveballs. Here’s why there is no shame in training for a second career. - By Bill O’Leary, EA Associate Editor

“We continued to drive our Next Level strategy, generating higher revenue and operational earnings per share against significant market headwinds,” said CEO Ulrich Spiesshofer.

Providing safety and reliability to the chemical, oil & gas industry has been a long standing tradition for Baldor. Offering a complete line of electric motors and mechanical power transmission products under the Baldor-Reliance® (Link to Explosion Proof Motor Page) and Baldor-Dodge®(Link to Dodge Metallic Couplings) brands

Two weeks after completing high school, Harvey Trickel started a job as an Engineering Technician with Reliance Electric Company at the Ivanhoe Plant in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1984, Harvey transferred his engineering and quality assurance expertise to the Kings Mountain, NC facility. Sixty years after beginning work in Cleveland, he still thrives on the challenge of designing motors.

Keeping an extra motor on hand is done for one primary purpose: to reduce downtime when a motor in production fails. So it’s critically important that motors in storage are maintained as well as motors in production.

The Plant Engineering webinar "Motor Maintenance, The Predictive Way" sponsored by Baldor is now available to view on-demand!

Baldor Electric Company will be attending the 2015 EASA convention and meeting in San Antonio, Texas June 14th through June 16th, 2015. As you walk the show, be sure to stop by booth #503 to visit with your friends from Baldor or to view some of our newest products available.

A complete line of ABB low voltage IEC electric motors is now available from Baldor. The complete product portfolio includes motors for safe area operation and motors that meet requirements for hazardous area operation.

Baldor Electric Company is proud to announce the Above NEMA Vertical P-Base Motor platform.

Baldor Electric is proud to announce a new addition to our tapered roller bearing family, the Baldor•Dodge Type EXL four-bolt flange bearing. Type EXL flange bearings provide superior sealing, misalignment and expansion capability as well as the highest load ratings in the industry.

Baldor Electric Company is proud to offer ABB’s expanded line of high voltage rib-cooled motor platform, type NXR, with higher power ranges and increased ingress protection.

Baldor Electric announces a new addition to our gear reducer product offering, the Baldor•Dodge Vertical Gearmotor. The Vertical Gearmotor offers a cost effective alternative to the common low speed vertical pump drive technologies, which utilize large, high pole count vertical motors or a combination of horizontal motor with a right angle gear reducer.

Baldor Electric Company introduces a new line of crusher duty motors with improved reliability, performance, and energy efficiency to help lower the operator’s total cost of ownership. With higher break down and locked rotor torque performance, Baldor●Reliance® crusher duty motors meet the demands of the toughest crushing applications worldwid

Baldor Electric Company is proud to announce a new addition to our washdown family of enclosed gear reducer products, the Baldor•Dodge Ultra Kleen® Tigear-2®.

Plant Engineering Magazine has chosen the Baldor•Dodge® Quantis® Ultra Kleen as the 2014 Product of the Year gold award winner in the power transmission category.

The Manufacturing Institute has announced it will award Amy Lakin, executive vice president of Supply Chain for Baldor Electric Company, with the Women in Manufacturing STEP (Science, Technology, Engineering and Production) Ahead Award.

The Baldor Electric facilities in the Fort Smith, Arkansas area were honored this week to receive the United Way of Fort Smith Area 2014 Chairman’s Award. This award goes to a company that continually demonstrates dedication and commitment to United Way. Baldor was recognized for employee giving and being a loyal partner to the 34 local agencies.

Readers of Control Magazine have named Baldor Electric as their top pick in the Electric Motors category for 2015, an honor Baldor has received for the fourth year in a row. The process consists of unaided voting by readers, meaning readers are asked to write the answer to a series of survey questions without the help from a pre-selected series of names.

Baldor●Reliance motors, for the twelfth year in a row, was selected by readers as the top choice in Industrial Electric Motor category in Control Design Magazine Readers' choice awards for 2014. Also receiving recognition from readers, in the Gear Reducer category, was Baldor●Dodge gear reducers.

Baldor Electric Company was honored this week to receive the Arkansas Governor’s Quality Award for Performance Excellence from Governor Mike Beebe during the 20th Annual Awards Celebration in Little Rock, Arkansas. The award is the highest level available in the quality program organized by the Arkansas Institute for Performance Excellence.

Baldor Electric Company is honored to be named a 2014 Top Workplace by The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Top Workplaces are selected based on employee feedback provided during a confidential survey conducted by Workplace Dynamics, LLP.

Are you using variable frequency drives (VFD) for optimum efficiency in your application? Join us May 27th for a live webinar as we team up with Plant Services magazine to discuss the importance of protecting your motor when it’s controlled by a VFD.

The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) and a coalition of energy advocates submitted a petition to the Department of Energy to increase efficiency in industrial electric motors not covered under the latest small motor rule.

Tough. Dirty. Low-paying. Those are just a few of the things. Arielle Holland had in mind when she first considered taking a job at Baldor Electric Company, a manufacturer with a plant in Flowery Branch.

Motor drives, which act exactly like an accelerator pedal that speeds up or slows down a vehicle in exact proportion to driving conditions, are the unsung heroes of the energy world.

When thinking of a food manufacturing facility, many people may envision a lockdown area in which all personnel must wear full-body decontamination suits and where every internal surface of the facility must glow from the sheen of stainless steel. While this may be somewhat common for parts of a plant, a range of environments allow for different grades of motors, from general purpose to washdown, which drive many pumping applications.

The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) and a coalition of energy advocates submitted a petition to the Department of Energy to increase efficiency in industrial electric motors not covered under the latest small motor rule. A Final Rule was issued in March, 2014 which will broaden the scope of coverage left behind from the Energy Independence & Security Act (EISA) of 2007. The Integral Horsepower Rule will go into effect June 1, 2016 and supersede the EISA 2007 laws.

Over the past few years, a common practice in the Food and Beverage Industry is to evaluate system components to improve reliability, productivity and food safety in harsh sanitation environments. Washdown motors and bearings are just two products where selecting the right feature set provides extended life and better performance in the harsh environments typical to the industry.