Saminco Employee Directory

Saminco employs over 120 people at multiple locations in North America. Saminco has over 22 years experience in building traction drives and has manufactured electric traction drives for Fuel Cell Buses designed by Ballard and Georgetown University, Hybrid-Electric systems for Allison Electric Drive division of General Motors as well as over 3,500... AC/DC and DC/DC controllers for underground mining vehicles. These include shuttle cars, continuous miners, railed vehicles and long-wall shearer haulage drives ranging in power from 5 kW to 200 kW operating from 230V AC to 575V AC or 80V DC to over 600V DC supplies. The company manufactures DC/AC converters to allow variable speed operation of 3-phase AC machines over a power range from 0.5kW through 700kW. The company is presently developing a new 1000V AC inverter rated up to 400HP continuous. At Saminco the company has excellent in-house test facilities and 500 kVA of available power for testing traction drives up to 500 kW. All manufacturing of the company's products is performed in the company's Fort Myers, Florida facility with the capacity to deliver production of several hundred units per month. The company has strong R & D capabilities and are presently building controllers for shunt DC motors, series DC motors, brushless DC motors, induction motors, induction generators, and diesel-electric vehicle traction drives up to 500HP. July of 2001 the company opened a second location in Lavalette, West Virginia, which now is the company's primary service and training facility for the company's mining controls. September 2004 was the opening of the company's panel shop in Logan, WV and in March 2006 the company opened the company's 3rd shop in Norris City, IL. The company's track record of successful projects arises from the company's policy of understanding the company's customers' requirements and then exceeding their expectations.Read More