Since the parent company was founded in Eisenbach, Germany in 1863 by Johann Morat, the wheel hasn't been reinvented but the technology of drives and gears has been continuously improved. With a world-wide distribution network of sales representatives, Framo is a global producer of high-grade drive solutions for many industrial branches. The core competence of the company is the production of gears and in particular worm gears, with Framo-Morat ranking among the leading suppliers in Europe.
More recently, Framo has evolved into a consulting company and has unique capabilities in fully automated production and engineering.
With an extensive knowledge base, Framo has the ability to manage the entire development process from concept through engineering & design to manufacturing, testing, assembly and production. Our customers trust us to design the product according to their requirements and they have found that they benefit more, the earlier Framo is involved in the process. In summary, Framo's wide range of product offerings and services enable us to bring together all the disciplines to ensure a successful product life cycle.
To deliver the variety of products competently Framo is divided into three distinct organizations:
- Gears
Framo's advanced machining facilities coupled with our extensive knowledge base allows us to offer competent solutions for complex machining tasks. Our capabilities range from the manufacture of raw parts to soft machining, hardening and hard machining, all from a single source. We can provide external and internal spur gears, helical and spherical gears to a customer's specifications.
- Worm Gears
Framo offers a standard line of worm gears and is the market leader in worm gears with more than 40 million worm gear sets sold world-wide in over 40 years. In addition, we can provide customized solutions. Framo's custom capabilities in worm gears include the design and production of gears fabricated from steel, bronze, phenolic or plastic in diameters of 20 to 250 mm with center-to-center distances of 17 to 125 mm.
- Drive Systems
Framo's drive system division includes slip-on geared motors, linear actuators and push-pull chains. Based on modular design principles, all drives are customized to the individual application of the customer.
Framo also offers drive solutions that are designed and manufactured entirely to customers' requirements. For this purpose Framo has a prototype department which manufactures and tests the custom drives in small quantities. This approach allows us to optimize custom drives for volume production.
Our gears and worm gears are primarily delivered to manufacturers of gear boxes and gear motors in the machine building industry as well as printing and textile machine industries.
Rapidly growing markets for our drive systems include the printing industry, tool making, stage and light engineering, as well as materials handling and rehabilitation devices technology.
Ensuring a company's success in a rapidly changing environment requires the ongoing training and continual evolution of its employees. The competitiveness of mature companies depends more than ever on the personal qualifications and the motivation and the willingness to perform of each individual. That's why professional training is likewise an important element of Framo's philosophy. On any given day, 10-20 trainees are receiving an education as industrial clerks, machine fitters, machine operators or mechatronic technicians.
With approximately 15,000 square meters of production area, Framo Morat GmbH & Co. KG employs 330 employees and in 2007 achieved a turnover of €43 million with an export quota of around 40%. |
