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Emerson Motor Company’s U.S. MOTORS^® brand—known for a history of innovation and pioneering technology—has reached its 100th year in the electric motors industry.  Founded in 1908 in Los Angeles, U.S. Electrical Motors, Inc. was acquired by Emerson Electric Co. in 1962.

Today, as part of Emerson Motor Company, the U.S. MOTORS brand continues the leadership position it earned as an early developer of induction motors and innovation of the revolutionary vertical HOLLOSHAFT^® motor—a product that still leads the liquid pumping industry in 2008.

“We look forward to another productive century of growth and developing further advances in technology,” said Jim Lindemann, Chairman and CEO of Emerson Motor Company. “As we look back on the first 100 years of the U.S. MOTORS brand, we embrace a future built on engineering expertise, world-class manufacturing, customer satisfaction, and product reliability.”

Emerson Motor Company and the U.S. MOTORS brand combine to offer OEMs, end-users and aftermarket customers the advanced solutions they need to meet today’s motor challenges—through product performance, energy efficiency, delivery, and reliability. Recent innovations include:

• API 547^®* motors, offering reliable new alternatives in oil and gas processing, utilizing LEAN manufacturing principles to support world-class lead-times.
• ReadyLine^SM and FastFlex^SM on-demand production that drastically reduces motor lead-times.
• ACCU-Torq^TM vector duty motors, for applications up to a 2000:1 constant torque speed range.
• A full range of NEMA Premium^®* motors that already meet the newly enacted energy efficiency legislation (EISA).
• Variable speed solutions from fractional to thousands of horsepower using technologies including brushless permanent magnet and switched reluctance motors and drives.
  
  Over the past 100 years, the U.S. MOTORS brand has grown to a truly global brand. Emerson Motor Company operates 16 manufacturing facilities and 7 engineering centers in 6 different countries to serve customers around the globe.