Harmonic Drive sets up shop in the UK

Harmonic Drive has been a leading manufacturer and supplier of precision gears and actuators for more than 30 years in Europe. The company's core competences lie in the development, production and marketing of gear component sets, servo actuators, gearboxes or custom-made motion control systems which are manufactured at its facility and headquarters in Limburg (near Frankfurt), Germany. For many years the Heason Technologies Group was Harmonic Drive's sales partner in the UK and responsible for the sales and marketing of its products.

However, the continuous expansion of the company and its product range, coupled with positive UK business development, has necessitated the foundation of a new sales subsidiary, enabling Harmonic Drive to provide its specific knowhow directly to UK customers.

The company's new office is located at the Staffordshire Technology Park in Stafford, close to the M6 motorway between Manchester and Birmingham, at the heart of the UK manufacturing industry.

This is the first of a number of major investments in both personnel and facilities by Harmonic Drive over the coming months.

As a 100% daughter of Harmonic Drive AG, the UK company can now offer direct customer support by a local UK sales team.

"Customer care, short reaction time and intensive engineering support are the most important objectives for us", says Graham Mackrell, Sales Director of Harmonic Drive UK.

"Harmonic Drive UK aims to offer an improved level of services to all customers, now having the benefit of direct contact to specialist staff at our manufacturing plant in Germany".

"We will also try to offer customers some cost savings and shorter delivery times, where possible, associated with the purchase of products directly from the manufacturer", adds Mackrell.