Drive technology fast 
becoming industry standard

The latest active front-end (AFE) drive technology is fast becoming the industry standard for manufacturers, owing to their energy savings, a near unity power factor and current distortion (THDi) 5% of nominal current at full load, low-voltage...

Control equipment supplier introduces EZ intelligent relay

Specialist supplier of control equipment CHI Control has introduced the latest Eaton EZD intelligent relay, equipped with a multifunction display that offers powerful visualisation functions and improved networking capability to its existing EZ...

New generation of soft starter technology improves pump performance

New Zealand soft starter specialist, AuCom, launched in May the latest addition to its line of products, the EMX3. The anticipated new soft starter, supplied locally through low- and medium-voltage motor control equipment company CHI Control...

Control solutions provider delivers control centres to mining operations

CHI Control Engineered Solutions have successfully delivered and commissioned low voltage motor control centres (MCCs) for phase one of the Nkomati nickel mine in Mpumalanga

Medium-voltage soft starter enters market

Low and medium voltage component supplier CHI Control Components, a division of Alstom Low Voltage Equipment (ALVE), has introduced the Aucom medium voltage (MV) soft starter to the market, specifically for use in the mining industry. This device...

Company adds patented frequency converter series to its product range

On August 4, this year, CHI Control bolstered its product range with the addition of the fully modular Vacon NX series of frequency convertors.

African mines benefiting from South African experience

Motors, Drives & Mechanical Power Transmission