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 GEARBOXES AND Industrial Variators

Parallel and Right Angle Gearboxes

Bevel Gear Units

Single Screw Extruders Drive

Twin Screw Extruder Drives

Injection Moulding Machine Drives

Large Industrial Planetary Units

Ultra Compact Shaft-Mounted Gear Units

Special Purpose Gear Units

Industrial Variators and CVT

   
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 HISTORY

A company with a history of success.
The acronym PIV stands for "Positive Infinitely Variable" a stepless drive system invented in the 1920's by an Englishman G.J Abbott. In 1928 the German Werner Reimers discovered the potential of Abbott's invention. He obtained a patent for Abbott's design and founded the 'Ketten und Getriebe GmbH' Company paving the way for what was to become P.I.V. Antrieb Werner Reimers in 1936, and, much later, PIV Drives GmbH.

In the years following Reimers securing of the patent, the PIV principle was developed further, improved and applied to a wide cross section of power transmission applications, including CVT (continuous variable transmission), which is the basis for the multitronik® automatic transmission that is used successfully today in the automotive industry.

At the end of the 1970's PIV built on its success with infinitely variable transmissions by introducing highly efficient, precision helical and bevel-helical gear units to the market. Known as the POSIRED range, these units provide the maximum in universal and flexible application possibilities, guaranteeing optimum adaption of the gearbox version to the specific requirements of each user industry. The many features of the POSIRED range revolutionised the market, enabling, PIV to add to go from strength to strength and to introduce other precision products, including the highest level bevel gear transmissions and the POSITORQUE range of high efficiency, high torque epicyclic gear units.

The success of these introductions is evidenced by the continuing demand for PIV gearboxes in heavy duty applications on bucket conveyors, furnace drives, chain conveyors, hopper dischargers, mixers and stirrer drives. In addition, PIV has also established a reputation in specialist markets with customised gearboxes for cranes, plastic extruders and mixers in feed and food industries. All of these gearboxes are at the leading edge of available technology and provide the high torques demanded by industry without compromising design life.

At beginning of 2002 Brevini Riduttori has acquired the enterprise and renamed in PIV Drives GmbH. The enterprise keeps its company headquarter at its historical location.

 

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