Fenner Drives

Fenner Drives is a designer and manufacturer of a broad range of products that are used in motion transfer, power transmission, and conveying applications. The company has several brands such as PowerTwist Plus and NuTLink v-belts, Eagle polyurethane belting and o-rings, PowerMax composite idler pulleys & sprockets, and B-LOC Trantorque keyless bushings. Fenner Drives products serve various markets including fitness equipment, floor maintenance, food & beverage, oils & gas exploration, packaging, robotics, climate control, and medical diagnostics, to name a few.

History

In 1911, three area businessmen founded Manheim Manufacturing and Belting Company to manufacture conveyor belts for agricultural applications. Years later, the company expanded its product range to include flat power transmission belts serving the general industry. During the 1970s, the company included extruded thermoplastic urethane belting in its product line. Within the same decade, an engineer was contracted to design the patented Trantorque Keyless Bushing. A subsidiary of Fenner PLC, Fenner Inc., acquired the company in 1984. From then on, the company traded as Fenner Manheim. In 1995, the company changed its name to Fenner Drives and acquired Efson Inc. which manufactured a line of thermoplastic pulleys and tensioners. In 2002, the company's Industrial Division acquired Eagle Belting Company. Four years later, the company's Industrial and Precision divisions became two separate companies - Fenner Precision and Fenner Drives.

Headquarters & Locations

Fenner Drives is headquartered in Manheim, Pennsylvania and has several manufacturing facilities in the same state as well as in North Carolina and in Leeds, UK, all of which are ISO 9001 certified. The company's warehouse facilities are located in Wilmington, North Carolina; Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and Dewsbury, UK.