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germany area served worldwide key people juergen blickle number of employees 15 000 website www.sew eurodrive.com sew eurodrive is a german manufacturing company founded by christian p hr in 1931 as s ddeutsche elektromotoren werke . today it is an international organization that manufactures geared motors frequency inverters and servo drives employing over 15 000 people worldwide with annual sales in excess of 2.4 billion . citation needed based in bruchsal in southern germany they have manufacturing assembly and service centres throughout the world . sew are leaders in decentralised control technology with products such as movimot movigear moviswitch and movitrans . in addition they have moved into the large industrial gearbox market with their range of helical bevel helical and planetary gearboxes . a further development sees their 30 year old dt dv range of motors being replaced by the new dr range of motors which are designed with future efficiency standards in mind . the new dr range complies in full with eup lot 11 which will be the new compulsory european efficiency standard to replace the existing voluntary agreement in 2011 . 1 sew eurodrive made its mark in the industry by making the motor and gearbox integral or monolithic . by bypassing the constraints of what is considered mutually exclusive total optimization is possible thus allowing far higher service lives when compared to industry standards . citation needed sew initially produced motors until 1945 when the allied strategic command bombed bruchsal into rubble . after germany s surrender the company became an entity of the us via the marshall plan . when this was concluded in 1948 the company was returned to its owners the blickles . at this point gear motors became its product and expertis significant events edit 1931 christian p hr founds the s ddeutsche elektromotoren werke 1945 ernst blickle takes over management 1960 sew usocome sa is founded in haguenau france 1965 sew develops modular system for gearmotors 1968 sew founds and expands international assembly plants 1972 acquisition of the obermoser group is completed 1975 sew do brasil motores redutores ltda . is founded in s o paulo brazil 1982 sew eurodrive pty ltd is founded in melbourne australia 1983 sew eurodrive inc. is founded in lyman south carolina usa 1987 89 brothers j rgen and rainer blickle are appointed as managing directors of the sew eurodrive group . 1989 edeltraut blickle establishes sew eurodrive foundation 1990 sew acquires a majority share in pfeffer & partner getriebebau gmbh in wiesloch germany 1992 sew eurodrive s.a. is founded in forbach france 1994 sew eurodrive tianjin co. ltd. is founded in tianjin china 1994 sew acquires an interest in santasalo ltd. in helsinki finland 1997 sew eurodrive was set up as a private limited company in india 1999 sew starts electronics production 2002 pfeffer & partner in stringen becomes sew eurodrive stringen gmbh 2003 sew eurodrive becomes the first organisation to effectively mass produce energy efficient motors with copper rotors 2006 sew establishes production plant in shenyang china 2009 sew eurodrive opens production plant of industrial gear units in bruchsal germany external links edit official site http www.sew eurodrive.com retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title sew eurodrive & oldid 723120695 categories manufacturing companies of germanymanufacturing companies established in 1931hidden categories wikipedia articles needing rewrite from march 2013articles lacking reliable references from march 2013all articles lacking reliable referenceswikipedia articles needing style editing from march 2013all articles needing style editingall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from september 2012articles with unsourced statements from september 2011 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view 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