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About Sumitomo Drive Technologies

Sumitomo Drive Technologies is the power-transmission business of Sumitomo Heavy Industries, supplying gearmotors, gearboxes and drives for industrial machinery worldwide. It is best known for the Cyclo Drive, the eccentric cycloidal reducer whose design gives very high shock-load tolerance and which anchors a catalogue running from compact gearmotors such as Hyponic and Prest NEO through the Paramax and HEDCON industrial gearboxes to large custom drives for conveyors, mixers, cranes and water treatment. For robotics and automation buyers the relevant lines are its precision and servo-adjacent products — fine-cycle and servo gear solutions used in positioning, indexing and factory automation — backed by a manufacturing and service footprint organised by region, including an Americas headquarters in Chesapeake, Virginia.

The business presents itself as one integrated brand across Japan, the Americas, EMEIA and Asia-Pacific regional companies, combining Japanese product platforms with local assembly and configuration centres that shorten lead times. Sumitomo Heavy Industries brings more than a century of heavy-machinery heritage to the unit, and the drive business is one of its core segments alongside plastics machinery, cranes and energy plant. For partners, Sumitomo Drive Technologies is a global, single-brand source of industrial gear drives with unusually deep local service coverage, strongest where uptime and overload resilience matter more than the last increment of positioning precision.

Products & services

• Cyclo Drive cycloidal speed reducers and gearmotors
• Paramax and HEDCON industrial gearboxes; Hyponic and Prest NEO gearmotors
• Precision and servo gear products for positioning and factory automation
• Large and custom drives for conveyors, cranes, mixers and water treatment
• Regional assembly, configuration and aftermarket service

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