In the food and beverage industry, maintaining high hygiene standards is essential. At drinktec from 15 to 19 September 2025, NORD DRIVESYSTEMS will present robust and efficient drive solutions, which meet these requirements. With the new NXD tupH ® surface treatment, the company successfully made its aluminium drives more durable in extreme environments, thus ensuring long-lasting performance even under demanding operating conditions.
Due to high hygienic requirements, drive solutions in the food and beverage industry are frequently cleaned and disinfected. With the NXD tupH ® surface treatment developed by NORD, drive components such as gear units, smooth motors and frequency inverters are given safe surface protection in wash-down areas, making aluminium drives an efficient and durable alternative for the industry.
Treatment of aluminium surfaces
With the NXD tupH ® surface treatment, NORD makes the surfaces of drives with aluminium housings particularly corrosion-resistant. Aluminium is lightweight, economical and fully recyclable. Furthermore, aluminium housings provide better heat conductivity than, for example, stainless steel, thus reducing their maximum surface temperature. The NXD tupH surface treatment consists of a base layer; the upper layer of the aluminium body is transformed into a corrosion-resistant layer.
An extreme resistance with better hardness compared to an untreated aluminium alloy is reached in combination with a sealer. This process prevents flaking or corrosive infiltration so that the protective effect will remain unchanged even in case of minor mechanical damage.
The surfaces of drives treated with NXD tupH® are largely resistant to acids and alkalis, and can be cleaned easily, thoroughly and hygienically. The surface treatment offers great advantages for use in hygienically critical areas in the food, beverage, packaging, pharmaceutical or chemical industry. NXD tupH® surfaces are free from PFAS, and food-safe according to the FDA, the EU Regulation 1935/2004 and the respective regulations in Switzerland and the MERCOSUR states.
Robustly built and put to heavy use
For hygiene-sensitive environments in the food and beverage industry, NORD offers a selection of fanless smooth motors and drive components with the NXD tupH® surface treatment that are available in stock ready for installation. This includes the integrated DuoDrive gear unit/motor concept as well as the IE5+ smooth motors, NORDBLOC.1® helical in-line gear units and NORDBLOC.1® helical bevel gear units. The high efficiency IE5+ synchronous motors significantly reduce operating costs and the CO2 footprint.
Soon, NORDAC ON PURE will be available – the manufacturer’s decentralised frequency inverter with NXD tupH® surface. NORD customers are thus provided with durable and easy-to-clean drive solutions from a single source with high investment security. In many cases – thanks to the ideally matched drive components from the system provider’s modular products – the use of materials or the number of drive variants in a system can be considerably reduced for a significant reduction of TCO.
Convince yourself of the robust drive solutions from NORD at drinktec from 15 to 19 September 2025 in Hall C4, Stand 651.
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