NORD Drivesystems was awarded for their outstanding operational excellence and responsive supply chain, high innovative capability and the company's strong competitiveness. As part of the events of the Vanderlande Supplier Day 2017, Jan-Christoph Block, Director of Regional Management at NORD, accepted the award presented to him by Vanderlande.

Vanderlande Industries is one of the world's leading prime contractors for process automation in warehouse logistics and is the global market leader for value-oriented automation of logistic processes at airports and in the field of parcel distribution. As an expert for tailor-made drive technology, NORD Drivesystems has been closely collaborating with Vanderlande for years.

Jan-Christoph Block regards the award as a major success: “We have been providing Vanderlande with drive technology for years and our contribution to many successful large-scale projects fills us with pride. The award motivates us to strengthen our existing business relationship so we can face new challenges in intralogistics together.”

NORD Drivesystems develops, produces and sells drive technologies with around 3.400 employees, and is one of the international leaders in the industry. In addition to standard drives, NORD supplies application-specific concepts and solutions, even for special applications, for example with energy-saving drives or explosion-protected systems. Gross sales amounted to approx. EUR 540 mn in the 2015 business year. The company founded in 1965 now has over 36 subsidiaries worldwide. The closely meshed sales and service network ensures optimum availability for short delivery times and customer-oriented services. NORD produces a wide variety of drive units for torques from 10 to 200,000 Nm, electric motors with powers from 0.12 kW to 1,000 kW as well as the necessary power electronics in the form of frequency inverters and servo controllers. Inverter solutions are available for classical installations in the switch cabinet and for decentralised and fully integrated drive units.