Baldor Electric Company
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| Type | Member of the ABB Group |
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| Industry | Manufacturing |
| Founded | St. Louis, Missouri (1920) |
| Headquarters | Fort Smith, Arkansas, United States |
| Key people | Ron Tucker, CEO, President |
| Products | Electric motors Mechanical Power Transmission Industrial automation Generators |
| Revenue |  US$1.52B (FY 2009)[1] |
| Operating income | US$178M (FY 2009)[1] |
| Net income | US$59.8M (FY 2009)[1] |
| Total assets |  US$2.65B (FY 2009)[2] |
| Total equity | US$924M (FY 2009)[2] |
| Employees | 7500 |
| Website | www.baldor.com |
Baldor Electric Company markets, designs, and manufactures industrial electric motors, mechanical power transmission products, drives, and generators.
The company manufactures it's products in 20 U.S. locations, 2 in Canada, 2 in China, 1 in England and 1 in Mexico.
The company's strategy is to be the highest value provider, focusing on quality, service and time.
The company has had a long-term focus on energy-efficiency and was the first in the industry to introduce a line of premium-efficiency industrial electric motors, the Super-E in 1983.
The company sells Baldor*Reliance and ABB branded industrial electric motors. Products are available in both IEC and NEMA configurations and range from 1/50th to 100,000 horsepower.
The company sells Baldor and ABB branded industrial drives and controls.
The brands of mechanical power transmission components are Baldor*Dodge and Baldor*Maska.
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[edit] History
Baldor Electric was founded in 1920 by Edwin Ballman and Emil Doerr. The name of the company was derived using part of each of their names. In 1967 the Company's headquarters were moved from St. Louis, Missouri to Fort Smith, Arkansas.
In 2007, Baldor Electric acquired the Dodge and Reliance Electric brands from Rockwell Automation for 1.8 billion dollars USD. This more than doubled the size of the company, taking it from $800 million in annual revenue to $1.8 billion.
In 2011, Baldor was acquired by ABB Ltd of Switzerland ABB in an all cash deal of 4.2 billion USD (1.1 Billion $ Debt included). The company continues to operate as Baldor Electric Company.
[edit] Products
[edit] Industrial Electric Motors
- ABB and Baldor brands
- DC
- AC Induction
- Grinders / Buffers
- DC Servo
- AC Servo
- Gearmotors
- Linear
- Industry specific solutions
[edit] Drives
- ABB and Baldor brands
- DC SCR
- AC Inverter
- AC Vector
- Soft starts
- Servo
- Motion control
[edit] Generators
- Towable
- Standby
[edit] Bearings
- Mounted bearings
- Tapered roller bearings
- Spherical roller bearings
- Sleeve bearings
- Sleeveoil hydrodynamic bearings
- Take up frames
[edit] Gear reducers
- Shaft mount helical
- Helical screw conveyor
- Right angle worm
- Helical inline
- Planetary
- Energy efficient gear motor / reducer
[edit] Power Transmission Components
- Couplings
- Clutches
- Brakes
- Bushings
- Hubs
- Sheaves
- Pulleys
[edit] References
- "Baldor annual report (2005)". http://www.baldor.com/pdf/financial/2005_Annual_Report.pdf. Retrieved May 17, 2006.
[edit] External links
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