Baldor Electric Company
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- This article is about the Electric motor manufacturer. For other uses, see Baldor (disambiguation).
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| Type | Public (NYSE: BEZ) |
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| Founded | St. Louis, Missouri (1920) |
| Headquarters | Fort Smith, Arkansas, United States |
| Key people | John A. McFarland, Chairman & CEO Ronald E. Tucker, President, CFO & Secretary Randall P. Breaux, V.P. - Marketing |
| Industry | Manufacturing |
| Products | Electric motors Industrial automation Generators |
| Revenue |  $721.6 Million USD (2005) |
| Net income | $43.0 Million USD (2005) |
| Employees | 3800 (2005) |
| Website | www.baldor.com |
Baldor Electric Company markets, designs, and manufactures industrial electric motors, drives, and generators.
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[edit] History
Baldor Electric was founded in 1920 by Edwin Ballman and Emil Doerr. The name of the company was derived using part of each of their names. In 1967 the Company's headquarters were moved from St. Louis, Missouri to Fort Smith, Arkansas. On November 7 2006 Baldor Electric purchased the Dodge and Reliance Electric brands from Rockwell Automation for 1.8 billion dollars.
[edit] Products
[edit] Motors
- DC
- AC Induction
- Grinders / Buffers
- DC Servo
- AC Servo
- Gearmotors
- Linear
[edit] Drives
- DC SCR
- AC Inverter
- AC Vector
- Solid state soft starter
- Servo
- Motion control
[edit] Generators
- Portable
- Standby
[edit] Gear reducers
- Worm
[edit] References
- Baldor annual report (2005). Retrieved on May 17, 2006.
