In December 2009, a team from Zest and WEG successfully commissioned the longest VSD-driven conveyor in Africa for Anglo Thermal’s Zibulo Coal Mine near Witbank in Mpumalanga.
For the first time a Brazilian company supplies power transformers to Itaipu Binacional Hidrelétrica.These were the first machines in the world to undergo real VFT - Very Fast Transient applications in the final tests. TR 256 MVA/550kV 60 Hz and TR 275 MVA/550kV 50 Hz: the largest elevating transformers ever made by WEG.
WEG supplies the traction motor for the trolleybus, the bus driven by electrical power. The environment and travel comfort are guaranteed in São Paulo, Brazil.
WEG were able to supply a 1 Megawatt motor for the SAG mill in their turn-key transformer / motor / drive package to ensure the performance criteria would be met.
WEG Generators, Transformers, Cubicles, Panels and automation system operate in the production of 350 thousand liters of alcohol and 12 thousand bags of sugar per day at the Costa Bioenergia Sugar Cane Mill.
A 6,865KW WEG electric motor is being used to drive the world’s largest industrial shredder - capable of reducing 450 end-of-life vehicles into tiny pieces every hour.