Electric motors have been built in Saxony for over 100 years. Based on this experience, WITTUR Electric Drives GmbH has been developing and manufacturing servo and main drive motors for many years. Thanks to constant innovation and further development of its products, it is now one of the leading suppliers of servo, special motors and gearless drives.
Company portrait
1983
Founding of the company as VEM Elektromotorenwerk Dresden-Ost (large-scale production of DC servomotors)
1987
NILES actuators Dresden (particular customer proximity due to the assignment to machine tool construction)
1988
Start of production of the asynchronous servo motor series DSM 1
1990
Transformation to System Drives Dresden GmbH through takeover by Autania AG
1991
Reorientation of systemANTRIEBSTECHNIK Dresden GmbH on the European market; development and production of the first three-phase synchronous servo motor series DSM 2
1993
Certification according to DIN EN ISO 9001
1997
Formation to System Antriebstechnik Dresden GmbH through change of shareholders
1998
New construction of a modern production facility in Dresden-Gittersee with a production area of more than 4,000 square meters
1999
First complete line of gearless elevator machines for payloads from 320kg – 5.5t
1999
Member of the WITTUR Group
2003
"witty 2" – elevator machines for machine room-free elevators
2004
Presentation of the "speedy 2" series - servo motors of the latest generation
2005
Presentation of the new elevator machine series "beamer 2" and "servogearless"
2007
Change of name to WITTUR Electric Drives GmbH
2009
Extension of the elevator machine series "beamer 2" and "servogearless" by WSG-S3 and WSG-29
2011
WITTUR Electric Drives GmbH introduces the environmental management system according to ISO 14001
2012
The motor series WSG-S0 and WSG-25 go into serial production
2015
The new generation of servomotors DYN 8 is introduced
2016
WGG-29 – the patented solution for split elevator machines
2017
Replacement of the WSG-Sx motors with the optimized WSG-xF series
2018
Industry solution – servos for use with 24/48 V DC
2019
Presentation of servomotors with integrated frequency converter
2021
Re-design of the WSG-Tx motors especially for the use of alternative lifting gear