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ebm-papst Automotive & Drives has received the prestigious 'Product of the Year' award at the European Electronics Industry Awards, 'Elektra 05'. At the gala dinner held at the Grosvenor hotel in London, managing director Gareth Jones accepted the award for ebm-papst's ground breaking EC blower from the BBC's Natasha Kaplinsky.

Designed to meet the demands created by the increased level of electronics in modern vehicles, ebm-papst Automotive & Drives' RV40 brushless radial blower is aimed at automotive vehicle manufacturers for e-box and seat ventilation applications. The blower combines high power cooling with quiet running, offering increased passenger comfort and safety.

With its integrated drive electronics, ebm-papst Automotive & Drives' ECI 42.40 brushless dc motor will fit into spaces that most other motors simply cannot be installed due to their larger size and/or because they have separate drive electronics. The result is a motor/drive combo that helps designers reduce the size and complexity of a wide range of products.

Meeting the ever increasing demand for more comfort in coaches, buses and commercial vehicles, ebm-papst Automotive & Drives? ?brushless? K3G blower operates with greatly reduced wear and tear, offering commercial vehicle operators the very desirable combination of excellent performance and reduced total cost of ownership.

ebm-papst Automotive & Drives (UK) Ltd has introduced a sensor blower that samples air temperature in the passenger compartment of a vehicle for automatic climate control. Part of ebm-papst's wider climate control sensors range, the S2000 provides tight control of temperature, offering greatly improved passenger comfort and safer motoring.

ebm-papst has supplied technologically advanced, application specific blowers for use in machines that help people suffering from the medical condition known as obstructive sleep apnoea. With the potential to reduce suffering for many millions of people, the CPAP (continuous positive air pressure) machines stop people snoring, they reduce obstructive sleep and its side effects of tiredness, and can even save the lives of those who may stop breathing as a result of the condition.

Offering industry-leading levels of efficiency, ebm-papst Automotive & Drives' 'E' Megafans are the ideal choice for cooling solutions where lower power consumption and low noise are required. Available in 60, 80 and 92mm sizes, the fans will help designers to meet energy efficiency legislation and stringent OEM specifications at very cost effective prices.

As part of a move that creates a single global brand, leading fan and drives company Papst plc has changed its name to ebm-papst Automotive & Drives (UK) Ltd with effect from 17th November 2003.

VarioPro continues to be big news for Papst; Electronics Weekly has announced the finalists in the Electronics Industry Awards (EEIA) 2003, and VarioPro has made the cut in to the final six of the 'Product of the Year' category.

Leading manufacturer of equipment cooling fans and solutions ebm-papst Automotive & Drives (UK) Ltd is targeting the automotive market in a move designed to maximise the potential for its high quality fans and small motors, adding value and appeal to a wide range of vehicles.

Leading manufacturer of equipment cooling fans and solutions Papst, has recently been advised by an end user of a Papst fan that has run continuously in an inhospitable environment for over 13 years!

A Papst employee is sponsoring an initiative to provide an internet service centre and to supply much needed equipment to a school in Gambia. In an ongoing process, Brenda Shore who is a Production Operator at Papst and her husband Keith have sent packages of computers, sports equipment, woodwork and metalwork materials, clothing and books to help Crab Island Junior School in Banjul.

With the need for greater efficiency, reliability and reduced overall cost of ownership, cooling systems have become more flexible and more sophisticated. Papst's Gareth Jones cites the changes and puts the case for a unique, software based system.

Offering increased flow rate at high pressures, Papst's 414JHH fan offers a cooling solution for low profile cabinet applications. Measuring just 40 x 40 x 25mm, the diminutive but powerful fan is particularly suited to 1U rack mount, high pressure applications as found in the communications and broadcasting industries.

As part of its expansion process, leading manufacturer of cooling fans and solutions Papst has strengthened its sales team with the addition of two field sales engineers. The company views the signings as key to its strategic plans to maintain a strong position in the market place and increase its sales and service levels.

Underlining its strength as a supplier of fan solutions for automotive applications, Papst's parent company Papst-Motoren of Germany has received certification of its Quality Management System to ISO/TS16949. The certificate is based on the QA standard ISO9001, but significantly it also contains additional requirements of the most renowned automobile manufacturers throughout the world.

In an event that raised over £300 for the Marie Curie Cancer Fund, employees of fan manufacturer Papst recently played in a sponsored football match against a team from the newly formed QinetiQ (formerly DERA, the Defence Evaluation & Research Agency). The mixed teams were made up from employees who had travelled from all over the country to be at the event.

Designed to provide higher air pressure and higher airflow characteristics within a standard footprint, Papst's revolutionary DV5200 series fans will allow significant advancements in applications where downsizing and increased power densities are an intrinsic element of system design.

As part of its strategy to constantly improve the services and choices available to its customers, Papst has launched an e-commerce facility, 'Papst e-commerce'. The facility greatly eases customers' access to information regarding their trading accounts with Papst.

With over 200 models of DC fans and blowers and 50 AC varieties, Papst's latest catalogue features a new 15 page section on 'fan intelligence' options. The section incorporates diagrammatic data on the range of sensor and alarm signal options along with details of 'VarioPro', the company's latest, programmable, fan technology.

Measuring just 25x25x8mm and weighing only 5g, the new Series 250N fans from Papst meet the growing need for high reliability, miniature fans for today's compact consumer and industrial electronic applications.

Papst has further strengthened its position at the forefront of cooling solutions for high tech electronic and industrial applications, by becoming finalists and winning an award in this years "Electrical Products of the Year" awards held at the British Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham.

With 20% greater air flow than earlier generation fans, the new Series 5200 Megafan from Papst will enable engineers to use this 127mm square product in place of larger, conventional fans.

With overheating accounting for over 55% of all equipment failures, there is a clear need for improved cooling - without increasing fan noise. Responding to this need, cooling solutions specialists PAPST have introduced the latest addition to their Megafan family of new generation fans designed to provide increased cooling performance with quieter operation.

PAPST's new generation 4200N Series Megafans offer a breakthrough in equipment cooling with greater airflow and lower noise to help solve the problem of increasing heat dissipation and noise in today's smaller and more complex equipment.

With overheating problems accounting for some 55% of all electronic equipment failures, PAPST's new 12-page colour brochure on Individual Cooling Solutions shows how custom cooling solutions can provide the answer. The well illustrated brochure shows how the benefits of customisation can include faster assembly, lower noise, higher reliability, improved thermal management, advance warning of fan failure and much more.

The latest innovation in cooling fans from PAPST is the reversible fan designed to allow the direction of airflow in enclosures or cooling equipment cabinets to be instantly reversed whenever required. Initially available as an option on PAPST's high performance 6200 Series of 6-inch axial fans and DV6200 diagonal fans, the reversible option will be introduced on other PAPST fans to meet demand.

Equipment cooling specialists PAPST have developed a new Thermal Management solution called System 3000 which the company claims is the most comprehensive system available for cost effective thermal monitoring and control of a wide variety of electronic, telecoms, computer and control equipment.

PAPST's standard 6 inch cooling fans helped the Benson and Hedges Jordan team to stay cool in Spa some weeks ago during one of the most exciting races in recent years. The two Jordan Mugen-Honda cars, driven by Damon Hill and Ralf Schumacher, and cooled by PAPST fans, produced a historic one-two finish and maiden victory for the Jordan team.