How Much Sugar Can Thirty-Eight Tons of Gear Process?

On Monday it was announced that the industrial supplies giant Bearing Man Group commissioned two sugarcane mill drives at its Zambia-based Nakambala sugar mill. The gear units are capable of a peak output of 4 million Newton meters of torque, which should add quite a bit of crushing force to the mill, to say the least.

The gears' design consists of a primary helical gear stage, a secondary planetary stage, and a main load distribution stage at which power is split and distributed into the final-stage gear sets. Driving the gears is are 850 kilowatt, six-pole electric motors. The gears were manufactured , assembled, and tested in Germany; they were then disassembled and shipped to Zambia. If it's true that you can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs, it's equally true that you can't make something sweet without crushing some sugarcane. Assuredly, the world will be a sweeter place.