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Taking over the asylum... The group of EDC companies: EDC Scotland, EDC North East and EDC Air Compressors (phew - that's a lot of companies!) have banded together to become a newly established Employee Ownership Trust. "What's that?" we hear you say. Well, you can read our press release about... [Details]

Spot the difference in this picture. There's one very important one. Answer...the price of energy for industrial applications, which has more than tripled since this picture was taken in 2011. It makes the value of energy surveys all the more important.Energy surveys look at how your process is meant to... [Details]

It ain't what you do - it's the way that you do it. Things are 'demonstrably' clearer using ABB drive demo cases as a teaching aid. You get results. Using VSD demo cases during inverter training enables engineers to enact actual drive scenarios which they’ll come across on a daily basis.... [Details]

Dive in to a sea of information with ABB’s new Virtual Reality Water World. It’s 'aquatic fantastic' with ABB’s new interactive learning tool for the water and wastewater industry. Designed as a teaching aid for drives, the VR plant room allows you to immerse yourself in ABB ACQ580 drives, so... [Details]

Boxing clever with EDC.  Our EDC engineers have created a bespoke enclosure to house this EMES Active Power Filter (APF) for a customer.  Benefits of this type of active harmonic filtering include improved energy and operational efficiency as well as a longer lifetime for equipment (not to mention a more... [Details]

Stop, wait a minute! Get a drive and put some power in it!  When a major manufacturer in the North East had a breakdown on a vital production line, our North East engineers mobilised immediately, headed to site and had a new ABB HVAC drive installed & running in no... [Details]

First you gotta ramp it up…then you gotta slow it down. You have to have hands on demo cases so you can work around.And then you can show that you really know how to programme a drive up!Trust your VSD vision to the professionals at EDC, your only local Scottish... [Details]

The summer sun is fading as the year grows old, and darker days are drawing near. Your drives are about to enter a long winter. Protect them from it with the equivalent of a comforting woolly scarf: a service visit from an engaging EDC engineer.Unless your inverters are living in... [Details]

The small but perfectly formed ACS180 makes its debut on the stage with its all compatible fellow drives. From 0.25kW - 22kW it's the new 'go-to' machinery drive for applications where space is at a premium and conditions can be sub-optimal. With a wealth of features to allow it to... [Details]

It’s a short circuit waiting to happen...and it’s totally avoidable. Contamination of your VSD control board with residue can happen; not all drives work in an office (ie control room) some are working hard on the shop floor or in the field. That’s why maintenance is truly essential; it protects... [Details]