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UK Bucks European Trend as CCL Starts to Bite

Power transmission giant Flender reveals that in the UK it is now selling a 'significant' proportion of high efficiency eff1 geared motors compared to 12 months ago, a fact that bucks the European trend if a recent CEMAP (the organisation representing Europe's motor makers) survey is anything to go by.

In the wake of the Government's introduction of the Climate Change Levy (CCL), companies have been upgrading their geared units to comply, and in the UK Flender is now selling many more eff1 units than it was last year. However, an interesting fact has emerged when comparing the UK to the rest of Europe.

In the big industrialised countries like France, Germany and Italy, where the CCL has not yet been enforced through penalties or incentives, companies are continuing to specify lower efficiency eff2 units, and eff1 sales are much slower. A recent CEMAP survey shows eff2 sales at 80% and eff1 sales at 20%. Of this latter figure, Flender believes most are being sold in the UK.

This means UK industry is already surging ahead of its European counterparts when making efficiency improvements, as Flender's Paul Dudley observes: "In the UK the end user is driving sales of eff1; over half our sales are via this type of customer. With OEMs it's much less, unless actually specified by the end user."

More information on Flender's high efficiency Motox geared motors is available from Flender on +0044 (0)1274 657700, or e-mail paul.dudley@siemens.com.

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For further media information or a photo of an eff1 unit please contact Bridget Summers, Footprint, PO Box 4, Colton, Leeds LS15 8WX. Tel: +0044 (0)113 251 5697. Fax: +0044 (0)113 251 5351. E-mail: bridget@fim.org.uk bridget@fim.org.uk .