Modern electric motors today often operate under more extreme conditions and must be energy-efficient, compact, and reliable. The spring-applied brakes of the INTORQ BFK458 series  provide practical, flexible solutions for these challenges, tailored to various target markets.

Kendrion products optimize cobots and industrial robots.

Whether safety controllers, gripping solutions, or robotic joint lockings: our products ensure safe, efficient robot operation. The Safety PLC can monitor multiple robots simultaneously and enables fast handling. The new HMG holding magnet gripper offers a power-off holding force of up to 700 N, making it the ideal solution for holding, gripping, and handling metal workpieces.

With its new CODESYS starter kit, Kendrion offers manufacturers of small machines a flexible, real-time capable and easily expandable automation solution. At the heart of the starter kit is the FIO Controller 111, which has a large number of integrated configurable I/Os. These can be used to implement numerous additional functions in a cost-optimized manner.

By outsourcing complex development projects to 3T – Kendrion’s specialist for electronics and embedded systems – Priva reduces the load on its internal R&D team while safeguarding valuable engineering know-how. With a focus on innovation in greenhouse cultivation and building automation, Priva benefits from 3T’s technical expertise, dedicated engineering team, and structured quality management.

Source: Link Magazine (NL), April 2025

Technology transforms markets. People transform companies. Since January 2025, Olaf Detlef has taken the helm as the new Managing Director of KENDRION Industrial Brakes. He brings to the role not only deep expertise in brake technology but also a profound understanding of the dynamics of international markets—something he both understands and lives.

Kendrion presents innovative automation solutions at automatica 2025

Kendrion is presenting an extensive product portfolio for industrial automation and robotics at automatica 2025. Visitors can experience the trade fair innovations in action at a live demonstrator: An innovative electromagnetic stopper for workpiece carriers and a shuttle finger for the safe storage and retrieval of goods. Other trade fair highlights include new electromagnetic end effector solutions for cobots and extremely reliable optical shutters.