Distributor of drive technology manufacturers

STOBER – Drive and controll from a single source
The STOBER drive system consisting of gearboxes, motors and drive controllers has a modular design and is freely scalable – for tailor-made, compact and powerful machine concepts. It can therefore be adapted to your individual requirements and combined as needed in nearly all industries and application areas.
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As always, there is a lot going on in the world of linear technology and we would like to inform you about positive news with this newsletter. On May 30, 2022, Bahr Modultechnik GmbH was acquired by IMI plc and we are now expanding the Norgren division with our individual linear technology.
In addition, we are now part of a group that includes a large number of companies in the field of industrial automation worldwide. Norgren is one of the leading companies in the field of motion and fluid technology. This means that, in addition to our mechanical linear units, we can now offer you a much more comprehensive range of products and services, from which you can benefit in every project phase. This portfolio includes, for example, electric drives, sensors, pneumatic cylinders or vacuum technology and offers you extraordinary solutions that can significantly increase the efficiency of your machines and systems.
Furthermore, we assure you that all our well-known services will remain unchanged. In addition to our individual linear axes with quality “Made in Germany”, nothing changes in our extensive service for you.
We are looking forward to our new group affiliation and look positively to the future of industrial automation.
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With ATEK Drive Solutions, we are shaping the exciting transformation from component manufacturer to solution provider for the entire drivetrain. Our path into the future stands for growth and expanded technological know-how. To this end, two companies, ATEK Antriebstechnik Willi Glapiak GmbH and Deutsche van Rietschoten & Houvens GmbH, are merging to form ATEK Drive Solutions GmbH. Decades of experience in the fields of transmissions and brakes are thus combined at the site in Rellingen
and supplemented by further expertise in motor production.
Our goals are ambitious: doubling turnover and the number of employees by 2030 and integrating motor production at the renovated and expanded site in Rellingen. Here on the outskirts of Hamburg, we work with a young, committed team with high standards and quality, short distances, digital tools and flat hierarchies as well as a great passion for technology, fun teamwork and an interest in exchanging ideas with our customers and partners.
We have the best prerequisites for the success of our transformation:
For decades, the companies ATEK and Rietschoten have successfully occupied a profitable market niche for transmissions and industrial brakes with great growth potential, which can now be leveraged with ATEK Drive Solutions GmbH.
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In 2020, we celebrated our 75th anniversary. We remain a true family-owned business: innovators, doers, drivers of quality. Highly personal, highly individual, highly committed. Short pathways, swift decisions. These are qualities our customers appreciate – then as now, and undoubtedly in the future.
With over 120 employees and a global network of partners, we are poised to tackle the toughest challenges in drive and lifting technology, in any sector!

Power transmission technology by planetroll® – Variable-speed gearboxes and planetary gearheads
Knowledge, experience and good ideas – this is what planetroll® stands for 40 years. The result: Our invention of the variable-speed gearboxes plaromaster® according to the principle of elasto-hydrodynamic power transmission and our planetary gearheads planetdrive®.
And because steadiness gives rise to reliabilty, nowadays a lot of well-known enterprises rely on power transmission technology from planetroll®. No matter what kind of industry – the innovative technology and absolute reliability of our products convince and inspire.
Therefore, and thanks to our continuous development, we are now a leading provider of explosion-proof variable-speed drives according to ATEX Directive 2014/34/EU. And there’s more: Our products meet the ever stricter requirements in the hygiene sector and are available in silicone-free versions.

Gegründet 1892, Familienunternehmen, geführt in vierter Generation, rund 285 Mitarbeitende, Stammsitz in Herford, Zweitwerk in Ivanec / Kroatien.
Hinter diesen nüchternen Fakten steckt eine lebhafte Unternehmensgeschichte: Begonnen hat alles mit Strom erzeugenden Maschinen für die Elektrifizierung der Stadt Herford. Auch Feldbahnen haben wir gebaut und angetrieben, sie wurden unter anderem als Zugmaschinen für Loren in der Ziegelei eingesetzt. Der Schritt zum elektromechanischen Antrieb für Glockengeläut war ein kleiner, aber revolutionärer. Denn bereits damals konnten wir mit innovativen Entwicklungen Wendepunkte in der Kirchturmtechnik setzen.
Seitdem haben wir zwei Standbeine – wir sind marktführender Spezialist im Bereich Sondermotoren und gleichzeitig Experten für Läute- und Kirchturmtechnik. In beiden Bereichen setzen wir Maßstäbe in Bezug auf Entwicklungsleistung, Qualität und Zuverlässigkeit.
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S+R automation systems GmbH is a company of the S+R group of companies based in Homberg/Ohm. S+R automation systems GmbH has been operating as an independent GmbH since 2001 and has specialized in the development and manufacture of automation technology components. At S+R automation systems GmbH, we offer you tailor-made solutions for electric lifting cylinders, telescopic cylinders, rotary drives, lifting columns, linear axes and their controls.
Our drive solutions are based on a purely electromechanical basis and are characterized by the highest quality and reliability. We are proud that, as a company, we can offer you a wide range of solutions to optimize your automation processes.
Our customers benefit from our extensive know-how in automation technology. We are able to develop individual solutions and prototypes to meet your requirements. We attach great importance to the fact that our products are not only functional, but also aesthetically pleasing.
We are proud that we can support customers across Europe with our tailor-made solutions. We have independent representatives in Austria, Holland, Belgium, France and Switzerland. Our customers can rely on us to be on site quickly and reliably to support them.

The company KBK Antriebstechnik GmbH was founded in 2003 by Mr. Robert Karpstein and Bernd Brenner in rented premises at Furtwänglerweg 30 in Trennfurt. Both partners brought many years of profound knowledge and experience into the start-up.
After 8 years of continuous growth, it was time to expand in early 2011. Thus, a move to Unterlandstraße 46 in Röllfeld and an expansion of the machine park were on the agenda.
KBK also saw a change of generations. In 2013, Mr. Robert Karpstein retired and handed over the management of the company to his son, Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Sven Karpstein. The senior boss will remain with the company with his expertise and in an advisory capacity.