Bonfiglioli is a global leader in design, manufacture and distribution of a complete range of gearmotors, drive systems and planetary gearboxes. Bonfiglioli Transmissions Pvt. Ltd., India, is a fully-owned subsidiary of Bonfiglioli, having its manufacturing facilities in Chennai. The state-of-the-art facility not only caters to the demand of the Indian sub-continent but also exports around 30 per cent of its products to the world markets.
Bonfiglioli has a long history of association with the textile industry. Bonfiglioli Vectron was founded as a business unit of one of the main textile machinery manufacturers, leader for ring spinning, winding and rotor spinning. Bonfiglioli can therefore boast of a great reliability in the textile sector, with more than 30 years of market knowledge, the necessary know-how and engineering skills for professional solutions and high quality end-products.
Bonfiglioli designs, manufactures and distributes a complete range of gear motors, drive systems and planetary gearboxes to satisfy the most demanding needs for industrial processes, automation, mobile and renewable energy applications. The company offers tailored solutions whose strength lies in the high technology content of each product and the careful integration of different technologies.
Mr. Rajan N, Head – Sales & Marketing (Industrial Solutions), Bonfiglioli Transmissions Pvt. Ltd., said: “Bonfiglioli India was set up in the city of Chennai in 1999. The local manufacturing is indicative of our commitment towards the Indian customers. The textile industry is an important market for Bonfiglioli as these machines manufactured in India are exported in large volumes to developing countries. The demand is on the rise as the quality of machines manufactured in India can compete with the best in the world. In India, the textile industry uses all the products that have been localized by us for over a decade. Our range of worm, helical and planetary geared motors are used abundantly by textile OEMs all over the world”.
Bonfiglioli also provides a full range of gear motors for industrial application – in-line helical gearmotors, worm gearmotors, helical bevel units, parallel shaft gearmotors, shaft-mounted gearmotors, low backlash planetary gearboxes, AC three-phase motors, brushless AC servo motors, variable frequency drives and servo drives.
Some of the applications in the textile industry are in the area of dyeing and processing (stenter machines), vertical dyeing range (VDR), and U–Jet dyeing machine. Apart from this applications extended to weaving, looms and tape extrusions, warping machines, carding, draw frame, ring frames, auto coners, lap former and combers.
Bonfiglioli works with all major Indian machinery manufacturers in most of the applications like spinning, weaving and dyeing & processing. Some of the major Indian OEMS include LMW, Lohia Starlinger, GCL, Prashant Group, Yamuna, Harish, Dhall, ATE Inspiron, and many more. “With over a decade of indigenous manufacturing of products specifically for textile machinery, Bonfiglioli geared motors and Bonfiglioli Vectron drives (VFDs) are now used extensively by our esteemed customers. Inefficient transmission drives are replaced with state-of-the-art and highly efficient total drive systems from Bonfiglioli India. This along with a comprehensive Mechatronic solution approach not only brings in energy savings by reducing power consumed by the equipment but also optimizes the overall working cost”, says Mr. Rajan.
Thanks to its long experience in the textile industry, Bonfiglioli can offer several special products for the textile environment, such as special inverter cooling systems for polluted ambient and air with dust particles, safe operating with constant ambient temperatures up to 55°C and motors without fan for harsh environments. In order to guarantee high performances, it is possible to provide common DC-Bus connected frequency drive systems, customized software solutions, precise synchronizing between drives and high performance control and high dynamic synchronous drives for accurate and high quality yarn bobbins.
Bonfiglioli is also focused on energy efficiency without loss in performance and quality: the management of the power failure regulation is made up to 4 seconds, thus saving the machine shutdown after power breakdown without damaging the yarn, guaranteeing that the interrupted production continues without quality impacts at restart, reducing downtimes and operating costs.
Specific for the textile solution, Bonfiglioli developed special textile versions for its frequency inverters with optimized cooling systems: feed through version, special customized mounting systems, heat sink without fan for polluted ambient air with dust particles and cold plate version.
The AgilE series of inverters have some special functions such as the sensorless control for synchronous & asynchronous drives, allowing to save up to 35 per cent energy with the flux reduction, the new customizable energy management, an easy commissioning and on board PLC functions, electronic gearing, traverse function for winders. The Active Cube servo series, dedicated to servo applications, can allow a sensorless brushless servo motor control, Have Integrated motion software to design and test even a complex motion profile.
Mr. Rajan adds: “Quality of the products supplied by Bonfiglioli India and our unique stock & supply capability adds immense advantage to our customers. As the end products are exported all over the world our customers find it convenient to service them anywhere using our global network. Being a multi-national company, it’s our strength that we provide an efficient after sales service through our branches across the Globe and also through our dealers and best partners”.
In India, Bonfiglioli has a wide sales network of over 15 branch offices and 50 authorized dealers across the country.
Bonfiglioli India has been predominantly also known for its presence in the Mobile and Wind segment. “Our main focus is continuously on the Industrial segment, which offers us enormous opportunities. We are extremely optimistic about the potential opportunities in India and the challenge it holds for us,” he concludes.