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Legislation - EXTRA EDITION The NEWS talked with two companies
that manufacture both synchronous and V-belts, Gates Corp. and
Browning Belts, a division of Emerson Industrial Automation, to
find out the finer points. According to a white paper produced
by the Gates Corporation (www.gates.com) titled “Energy Savings
from Synchronous Belt Drives,” manufacturing operations in the
United States “spend $30 billion annually on the electricity
powering motor-driven systems. Many of the 40 million electric
motors in operation, which consume 70 percent of all electricity
used in the plants, are not running at optimum efficiency.” The
Gates paper compares the advantages of synchronous belts over
V-belts, mainly in efficiency, which equates to loss of power
and ultimately, money. The paper sta