On May 13, 2011, Nord Drivesystems cele-brated the 20th anniversary of its manufacturing technology division Fertigungstechnik Nord in Gadebusch, Germany. The company also celebrated the opening of a new building extension, which has expanded the plant’s total floor space to 11,000 m². Speakers at the event included Nord’s founder G. A. Küchenmeister and Managing Director Jutta Humbert as well as Jürgen Seidel, Minister of Economic Affairs of the federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and Ulrich Howest, Mayor of Gadebusch.
Fertigungstechnik Nord now employs a staff of 199. Its growth story began with the production of gear housings on a 2,000 m² floor space. In later years, Gadebusch also became a manufacturing center for shafts and gear wheels, and the cold forming of worm gears. In 2009, the plant began manufacturing Nord’s large-scale, modular industrial gear units which are equipped with a one-piece Unicase housing even for maximum output torques of 229,000 Nm. The Gadebusch plant operates around the clock six days a week, and most production processes are fullyautomated.
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