Mining

New Mining Motor: a special product for tough application

This motor incorporates special features and a new system of brushes and slip rings (wound rotor motors) making them suitable to operate under severe and harsh area applications.

K+S Potash Canada’s Bethune potash mine is powered by WEG products

Product quality and service reputation were key factors for WEG to be selected as electric motor supplier

Votorantim Cimentos North America uses WEG products

Three plants in Canada and in the USA will be driven by about 20 WEG low and medium voltage induction and brush-lifting slip ring motors

Self-Generated Power Needs Special Focus On Efficiency

Potential savings lie not only in the operating cost of the standalone power generating facility, but in the capital expenditure for construction

High efficiency motors are big cost savers

Modern high efficiency motors from WEG are helping african mines to cut energy bills and maintenance

WEG presente na EXPOSIBRAM 2017

Exposição e congresso acontecem a cada dois anos em Belo Horizonte, MG

WEG products successfully installed at Integral Cement Plant Yacuses - Itacamba

WEG made a key supply with several electric motors for the Cement segment which plays a key role in the main market segments served by the company

Energy efficiency highlighted at Mining workshop

Organized by Minérios & Minerales magazine, the event brought together suppliers to mining companies to discuss cost-saving opportunities...

A gigantic conveyor for surface ore mining

WEG’s subsidiary Watt Drive provided the drive technology for the numerous conveyors of the mining operator VA Erzberg GmbH that produces...

Balama Graphite Mine Powered by Zest Energy

The remote operation to mine one of the world’s largest finds of high grade graphite – the Balama deposit in Mozambique – will be powered...

Zest Energy Provides Mobile Power for Kamoa-Kakula Mine Development in the DRC

The World’s largest high-grade copper deposit in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) recently commissioned by South Africa’s Gauteng-b...

WEG Present at World Mining Congress 2016

World Mining Congress takes place from October 18 to 21 in Rio de Janeiro

Official Announcement

It is with great sadness that we inform the passing away of Mr. Werner Ricardo Voigt, one of the three founders of WEG, which occurred in...

WEG Motor Will Drive New Cement Mill at Cemento Andino in Peru

Peruvian producer UNACEM, which have the largest installed capacity for cement in Peru, will commission a new mill.

Sims Metal Management selects 3MW WEG motor for replacement on tough shredder application

Sims Metals Management, the world's largest electronics and metal recycling company, has once again chosen WEG to design, build and suppl...