Trend is one of Vacon's major cooperation partners and supplies the Vacon AC drives under the Trend brand. The companies have jointly developed a specific interface option card for the NX drives. For controlling and monitoring purposes, the NXNI option card gives the customer full interface between the Trend BMS (Building Management System), the NX drive and the building.
To complement this partnership, Trend have been selling the NX drives to the building services sector for four years. A good proportion of these NX drives have been supplied into many of the major projects seen in the UK, where technical regulative and customer preference has won the business against strong competition. These major projects include e.g. the Royals Business Park in London's Docklands, Broad Quay House in Bristol and the Manchester Museum.
The NX drive brings numerous benefits, among which energy savings are one of the most appreciated. In the building automation segment, energy savings are largely the result of controlling the speed of air handling unit fans in strict accordance with heating and cooling demand, thus resulting in short payback times of the initial investment. The NX drives are also essential in maintaining acceptable air quality and environmental conditions indoors.
Vacon Group was founded in 1993 for one purpose only: to create, develop and provide AC drives worldwide. Ambitious to meet the most demanding needs of clients seeking top performance, easiness and reliability, Vacon offers AC drives in the power range of 0.25 kW...5 MW. In 2005, the Group revenues totalled EUR 150 million.
