Posts by Leandros Kourtidis

Everyone is talking about energy costs but the options for saving are limited. BRECOroll, an innovation by BRECO Antriebstechnik in the town of Porta Westfalica, gives the industry a way to significantly reduce energy consumption in plants that have long transport belt drives and to build smaller, lower-cost drive motors. Timing belts used to transport…

Wilhelm Herm. Müller GmbH & Co. KG has made additional investments to expand its production range. Thanks to the purchase of new bending machines, the company can now cold-bend and hot-form significantly larger, thicker components made of a variety of plastics more effectively and faster. More options for cold bending through purchase of a swing-folding…

The most recent Conti® PU timing belt is now available at WHM: The Conti® Synchrochain Supreme with a CTD profile combines the extremely high resilience of the tried-and-tested Synchrochain Carbon heavy-duty timing belt with antistatic properties. That means this PU timing belt is suitable for drives with extreme acceleration forces and the safe transfer of…

This year, WHM has once again decided not to send Christmas cards and will instead help people in need of aid by donating to social projects in the Hanover region. The money will be going to the “Johanniter Kältebus Hannover” and the “Hannöversche Tafel”. “Now that the year is coming to an end, we consider…

Wilhelm Herm. Müller GmbH & Co. KG (WHM) has launched four additional charging stations for electric cars and hybrid vehicles on its company premises in Garbsen. With these new stations, a total of 8 charging points is now available. In the short to medium term, WHM intends to convert the company vehicle fleet to climate-friendly…

The branch office of Wilhelm Herm. Müller GmbH & Co. KG in Schkeuditz near Leipzig has now been in existence for 25 years. To mark the occasion, Ulrich Roßner, Managing Director of Wilhelm Herm. Müller GmbH & Co. KG, and Rayk Bergner, Mayor of Schkeuditz, visited the employees of WHM. The Managing Director of WHM,…

Wind power is an increasingly important energy source in Germany. Already there are around 30,000 wind power plants requiring regular maintenance. Above all, the rotor blades are affected by erosion, lightning strikes and cracks caused by high fluctuating loads. To date, cable systems and open work platforms remain the method of choice for plant maintenance.…

BRECO® timing belts can be covered with a variety of materials to make them suitable for a wide range of transport tasks. Now three additional materials have been added to the existing range of backing materials for these PU timing belts. Sponge rubber is characterised by impressively high absorbency and excellent friction characteristics. It is suitable…

New and secure: Homogeneous welding of PP, PETG and PVC We now have the option of welding plastics that are not suitable for adhesive gluing, such as PP, PVC and PETG (transparent). This permits homogeneous and stable connection of plastic components without any screw connections. Screw-connected plastic components often have a tendency to crack when…