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  • Nidec-Shimpo Launches a Lineup of Servo Motor Reducers for Food Machinery

    Nidec-Shimpo Launches a Lineup of Servo Motor Reducers for Food Machinery

    Nidec-Shimpo Corporation (“Nidec-Shimpo” or the “Company”) announced today that it has launched a lineup of its “VR Series,” reducers for servo motors, for food machinery.

    Nidec-Shimpo’s Latest VR Reducers for Food Machinery


    As public awareness of food safety is on increase in recent years amid food poisoning, norovirus, and other incidents, safety is required for food machinery

  • Nidec Develops Technology to Achieve the World’s Highest Space Factor for Round Winding Wires

    Nidec Develops Technology to Achieve the World’s Highest Space Factor for Round Winding Wires

    Nidec Corporation (TSE: 6594) (OTC US: NJDCY) (“Nidec” or the “Company”) announced today that it has achieved the world’s highest-level pace factor for round winding wires used for its traction motors, and has launched the mass production of motors by using the technology.


    Nidec’s latest stator


    E-Axle Gen.2



    Weight saving is one of the critical elements in impro

  • Nidec-Read Launches High-speed Semiconductor Inspection Device NATS-1000

    Nidec-Read Launches High-speed Semiconductor Inspection Device NATS-1000

    - 6-in-1 IGBT – Inspection Equipment with Top-class Speed in the World -


    Nidec-Read Corporation (“Nidec-Read” or the “Company”) announced today that it has launched NATS-1000, fully automatic inline semiconductor inspection equipment to test the functions of automotive IGBT (insulated gate bipolar transistor) /SiC (silicon carbide) modules.

    1.NATA-1000: How it was developed and i

  • Nidec Machine Tool Launches Robot Cameras for Hobbing and Broaching Machines to Help Automate Visual Inspections of Cutting Tools

    Nidec Machine Tool Launches Robot Cameras for Hobbing and Broaching Machines to Help Automate Visual Inspections of Cutting Tools

    - The two Robot Cameras can reduce tooling inspection time to less than 1/10 of its current length
    - Robot Camera MAX, the inspection equipment for broaching machines, can inspect a tool of up to 2,300mm long.

    Nidec Machine Tool Corporation announced today that it has launched Robot Camera SPEED, visual inspection equipment for cutting tools (hobbing machines) to process gears and other

  • Nidec Develops Single-phase Brushless DC Motor for Electric Fans

    Nidec Develops Single-phase Brushless DC Motor for Electric Fans

    Nidec Corporation (TSE: 6594) (OTC US: NJDCY) (“Nidec”) announced today that it has developed a single-phase, low-vibration, and low-cost brushless DC motor that can be installed in an electric fan.

    Nidec’s single-phase brushless DC motor for electric fans

    Most electric fans used around the world employ low-cost AC (capacitor) motors, which, as a solution for the global increase in e

  • 关于日本电产(尼得科/Nidec)就收购意大利机床制造商 PAMA S.p.A及其关联公司股权签署转让协议的公告

    关于日本电产(尼得科/Nidec)就收购意大利机床制造商 PAMA S.p.A及其关联公司股权签署转让协议的公告

    日本电产株式会社于2022年11月28日(日本时间)召开的董事会会议上,通过了收购意大利机床制造商PAMA S.p.A及其9家关联公司(以下统称“PAMA S.p.A”)股权(以下简称“本次收购股权”)等的决议,并于2022年11月30日(日本时间)签署了与本次收购股权相关的转让协议。
    1.被收购企业简介
    (1)公司名:PAMA S.p.A.
    (2)总部所在地:意大利 特伦蒂诺-上阿迪杰大区罗韦雷托市
    (3)成立时间:1926年
    (4)役员体制:Alessandro Batisti,总经理(本项目交割完成后,Alessandro Batisti将继续担任总经理一职)
    (5)业务网点:意大利、中国
    (6)经营范围:机床(卧式镗床、龙门机床等)的制造与销售
    (7)员工人数:约430人
    (8)营业收入:2021年1月至12月末 1亿1830万

  • Nidec-Shimpo’s FLEXWAVE Precision Reducers are Adopted for Use in Communications Satellites’ Antennas

    Nidec-Shimpo’s FLEXWAVE Precision Reducers are Adopted for Use in Communications Satellites’ Antennas

    Nidec-Shimpo Corporation (the “Company” or “we”) announced today that precision control reducers of its FLEXWAVE series have been adopted to control the antennas of communications satellites produced by Canadian artificial satellite manufacturer MDA Ltd. (“MDA”).

    FLEXWAVE series reducers



    OneWeb’s communications satellite
    *Two FLEXWAVE reducers are used in each of the satel

  • Embraco and Daikin case study with new cold room monoblock shows around 14% energy savings with variable speed

    Embraco and Daikin case study with new cold room monoblock shows around 14% energy savings with variable speed

    Daikin’s LMSEY series, a soon to be launched wall mounting packaged refrigeration units lineup for walk-in cold rooms, has an Embraco FMFT variable speed R290 compressor


    November 2022 - Embraco, a global provider of refrigeration technology and a portfolio brand of Nidec Global Appliance, and Daikin, manufacturer of air-conditioning, heating, ventilation and refrigeration systems, prese

  • Nidec Sankyo Develops a Tactile Device Equipped with Cylindrical Silicone Gel

    Nidec Sankyo Develops a Tactile Device Equipped with Cylindrical Silicone Gel

    Nidec Sankyo Corporation (the “Company” or “we”) announced today that it has become the first company in the world to develop a tactile device that adopts cylindrical silicone gel, which the Company has developed on its own.


    Recent years are seeing the applications of tactile devices spreading into many areas, including the input operations of VR games and other mechanical devices. For

  • Notice of Establishing a Joint Venture with FREYR Battery, a Semi-Solid Lithium-Ion Battery Manufacturer

    Notice of Establishing a Joint Venture with FREYR Battery, a Semi-Solid Lithium-Ion Battery Manufacturer

    Nidec Corporation (“Nidec” or the “Company”) (TSE: 6594; OTC US: NJDCY) announced today that the Company has completed the establishment procedures for the joint venture agreement with FREYR Battery (“FREYR”), a developer of clean, next-generation battery cell production capacity, as previously disclosed on August 30, 2022.

    1. Overview of the joint venture to be established
    (1) Company n

  • Announcement of Grand Opening Ceremony for Bulgaria Development Center

    Announcement of Grand Opening Ceremony for Bulgaria Development Center

    NIDEC ELESYS CORPORATION (hereafter, "NIDEC ELESYS") will open a R&D center in Sofia, Republic of Bulgaria (hereafter, "Bulgaria"). The opening ceremony was held with the presence of President Rumen Radev.
    <Scene of the opening ceremony>

    1. About Our R&D center
     In response to the growing demand for our in-vehicle inverters and ECUs due to the tightening of environmental

  • Nidec to Execute a Share Transfer Agreement on Italian Machine Tool Manufacturer PAMA and Its Affiliates

    Nidec to Execute a Share Transfer Agreement on Italian Machine Tool Manufacturer PAMA and Its Affiliates

    Nidec Corporation (TSE: 6594; OTC US: NJDCY) (the “Company” or “Nidec”) announced today that, the Company passed a resolution on, among others, purchasing the shares of Italian machine tool manufacturer PAMA and its nine affiliates (collectively “PAMA”) (the “Stock Acquisition”) on November 28, 2022 (Japan time). The Company executed a transfer agreement on the Stock Acquisition, etc. on November

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