[Case Study] Baldor: Ensuring Production, Reliability And Savings

Potters Industries Inc., (an affiliate of PQ Corporation), is a leading producer of engineered glass materials used for metal finishing, a reinforcing additive for plastics and conductive particles. However, the majority of the company's glass bead production is used for highway safety, providing the light-reflective lane markings found on highways around the world. This article presents an idea of how the company's production has been renovated thanks to the installation of a totally enclosed shaft-mounted speed reducer from Baldor, which has, say engineers, delivered the reliability they were looking for.