In this webinar, you will learn the key features and applications of direct-drive permanent magnet shaft generators. Our presenters go through the advantages of permanent magnet technology and discuss how you can put this to work for you in your vessels.
Finland’s spring has warmed up to a hotter-than-usual summer up here in the North. Likewise, our fiscal year is proving to be warmer than anticipated. Thanks to several significant orders, we are heading toward a good year.
WE Tech Solutions won the Efficiency Improvement Award and Wärtsilä won the Emissions Reduction Award.
Electrifying the world with game-changing green technologies The Switch is an agile product supplier that provides custom electric machines and power electronics to system integrators (SIs) and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). We want to grow together with our marine, renewables and industry customers who find our innovative technologies and optimized products key to their success.…
This article was published before The Switch became part of BEMAC Group in 2024. For current company information, visit our About us page. Dear friends! As of March 1, 2018, the start of our new fiscal year, we became Yaskawa Environmental Energy Division with global responsibility in our selected areas of wind, marine and turbo/industry…
As part of the long-term strategy of Yaskawa Corporation, The Switch will become Yaskawa European’s Environmental Energy Division.
Yaskawa a world leader in motion control and robotics, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire The Switch.
Our joint webinar with Berg Propulsion covers the matching of our joint technology to design a series of low-carbon multipurpose diesel-electric vessels with a controllable-pitch single propeller for Skarv Shipping Solutions. These vessels will be far more climate-friendly than what is currently available in the European short-sea market today. The design includes an optimized engine…
This webinar will cover how Berg Propulsion and The Switch matched their joint technology to design a series of low-carbon multipurpose diesel-electric vessels with a controllable-pitch single propeller for Skarv Shipping Solutions. These vessels will be far more climate-friendly than what is currently available in the European short-sea market today. They will also focus on high efficiency and low fuel consumption.
The Motorship covers the story about a series of bulk carriers propelled by Caterpillar Marine’s Twin Fin propulsion packages featuring our electric drive train solution.
Yaskawa Environmental Energy / The Switch has signed a contract with Caterpillar®(Cat) to deliver an innovative package of electric drive train technology for a series of bulk carriers.
WE Tech will deliver its direct-drive PM shaft generator solution with PM generators from The Switch to a series of two chemical tankers.