Variable Speed Drives and Soft Starters

Discover a wide range of variable speed drives and soft starters offering a powerful and reliable combination for your motor control solutions up to 20 MW. Starting from compact products to custom-engineered solutions, they are developed to the highest quality level to meet your needs in various applications, such as industrial processes, machines or buildings.
Is your drive IIoT-ready? Altivar Process is. The Altivar Process is the next generation of variable speed drives, designed to deliver IIoT benefits for segments like Water & Wastewater, Mining & Metal, Oil & Gas, Food & Beverage, Marine or Hoisting. A smart, connected device with built-in intelligence to gather data and share information to the enterprise level. Altivar Process drives can improve your operational efficiency, profitability and reduce the total cost of ownership.
Covering all applications in medium-voltage and high-voltage protection, from overcurrent or motor to complex distance protection, our protective relays give you the safety and reliability needed to operate with confidence. Add IEC 61850 Ethernet for best-in-class interoperability and communication in MV and HV power networks.

Discover Altivar HVAC variable speed drives designed to optimise solutions of HVAC machines and management in buildings. They provide reliability, safety, efficiency, and fast deployment in applications such as pumps (secondary pumps, variable primary pumps, pressure booster pumps), fans (air handling units, supply and exhaust fans, condenser fans), compressors (chillers, rooftops, heat pumps).

Altivar Soft Starters provide a slow ramp-up of the motor to help decrease mechanical shock and electrical peak demand. Altivar Soft Starter is the best in class, feature-rich, easy-to-use, compact and robust Soft Starter with functionalities including torque control, communication for automation and monitoring systems. Altivar Soft Starters range from 3 A (0.37 kW) to 1200 A (900 kW) and can be used widely for any commercial and industrial application.

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