TB Wood's Corporation

TB Wood's Corporation company was founded in 1857 and is headquartered in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. As of April 2, 2007, TB Woods Corp. is a subsidiary of Altra Industrial Motion, Inc. TB Wood’s Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets electronic and mechanical industrial power transmission products. Its mechanical industrial power transmission products include V-belt drives, synchronous drives, variable speed drives, and a line of flexible couplings, as well as hydrostatic drives, clutches, and brakes. These products are used in a variety of industrial applications to transmit power from electric motors and internal combustion engines to machines. The primary markets for these products are the construction, oilfield, specialized industrial machinery, food processing, material handling, pumps, compressors, mining, pulp and paper and agricultural equipment industries. The company’s electronic industrial power transmission products comprise of integrated electronic drive systems.

TB Wood's Corporation products are used to control the speed, acceleration, and other operating characteristics of electric motors in manufacturing processes. Its integrated electronic drive systems integrates AC electronic VFDs, programmable logic controllers, in-house custom designed printed circuit boards, and software. The company’s electronic products are used in water pumping, food and beverage processing, materials handling, HVAC, oil production, textile and fibers, packaging, furniture making, and general machinery applications. It has operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Germany, Italy, and India. TB Wood’s Corporation sells its products to distributors, domestic and international original equipment manufacturers, and end users of industrial equipment through independent and multi-branch industrial distributors, as well as directly to original equipment manufacturers.