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Posted Apr 21 2009

Denver, CO - Gates Corporation has launched PT Savings Center, an educational website offering resources on energy savings for manufacturing companies, hospitals and other facilities with motor-driven systems.

On the site, users register for a white paper, entitled "Energy Savings from Synchronous Belt Drives," download a motor tip sheet from the U.S. Department of Energy and access the Energy Savings Calculator, which computes estimated annual savings from converting from a V-belt drive to a Gates synchronous drive. Visitors also find needed parts in the online catalog PartView^TM, complete with CAD models and 2D specification sheets.

Facilities spend billions of dollars annually on the electricity powering motor-driven systems, and many of these motors do not run at optimum efficiency. By improving the energy efficiency of these systems by 5%, they gain increased production or significant savings. Synchronous belt drive systems are proven, on average, to be 5% more efficient than V-belt drives.

In addition to information on energy savings, the site offers maintenance managers and design engineers resources detailing belt failure prevention, information on Gates Poly Chain® GT® Carbon^TM belt drive systems and free design software.

"All manufacturing and office facilities have power transmission belt drives in operation, and the energy costs from running those motors can be staggering. When every expense is being scrutinized, it makes sense to make a change that offers a 5% return in savings, increased production or both," commented Brent Oman, Manager of Power Transmission Product Application at Gates Corporation.

Gates Corporation is one of the world's leading manufacturers of industrial and automotive products, systems and component with operations in 25 countries. Gates maintains sales and marketing operations in every major industrial and automotive market, including North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and the Gulf Region. Gates is part of the Industrial & Automotive group of Tomkins plc, a global engineering group listed on both the London (TOMK) and New York (TKS) stock exchanges, and with revenue of $5.5 billion in 2008. Tomkins plc has over 33,000 employees worldwide and enjoys strong market positions and technical leadership across all of its business activities and owns some of the best-known brands in their respective markets.