Company
About WEG Gear Systems:
WEG Gear Systems, founded 1972 as "Wustinger Antriebstechnik" and later widely known as "Watt Drive Antriebstechnik", is an Austrian technology company with its head office in the south of Vienna. It has specialised in products and system solutions for automation and drive technology.
Since Dec. 2011 Watt Drive is a part of the WEG Group, one of the leading international manufacturers of electric motors.
WEG Gear Systems develops, produces and sells geared motors, three-phase motors and frequency inverters.
With its motor- and gear system, it offers a modular combinable array of complete drive systems for production machines and industrial manufacturing plants.
About WEG:
The WEG Group, founded in 1961, is a Brasilian company and one of the world‘s leading manufacturers of electrical components and systems. The business is divided into six divisions: motors, power generation, power transmission and distribution, automation, digital solutions and varnishes. The company employs more than 40,000 people worldwide and in 2022 achieved sales of almost 30 billion R$ across a broad range of products. These include the latest generation of low/medium and high-voltage motors, transformers, generators, geared motors, low-voltage switchgear, frequency inverters, soft starters, ATEX-compliant flameproof motors, smoke extraction motors and full turnkey systems.