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You are here: Home / Featured / Portescap motors support critical-care applications during COVID-19 pandemic

Portescap motors support critical-care applications during COVID-19 pandemic

April 17, 2020 By Lisa Eitel Leave a Comment

The COVID-19 pandemic is creating an urgent need for critical-care equipment such as ventilators and infusion systems — as well as increased demand for lab analyzers.
Portescap has been a leading expert in miniature motors and precision motion control solutions for medical devices and clinical diagnostics for many decades and is proud to be able to play a critical role during this crucial time. Of course, more than technical expertise is required in these unprecedented times.

Collaboration, speed, and flexibility are necessary for the engineering of solutions to end the COVID-19 pandemic. These elements make Portescap a formidable warrior in the fight against COVID-19. Portescap’s team of engineers are no strangers to working closely with device manufacturers to create customized motion solutions that save lives.

In a press release, company leadership states: “With our global manufacturing and engineering presence comes an urgent responsibility to mobilize quickly as we leverage our expertise and do our part for the medical community. As part of Altra Industrial Motion, Portescap has created a Business Continuity Task Force as well as a Pandemic Response Plan to ensure the safety of our customers as well as that of our employees.”

Portescap builds the motors that power ventilators, infusion pumps, clinical diagnostic equipment, and other medical devices used to prevent and treat illnesses caused by COVID-19.

“We are working closely with device manufacturers to reduce the stress on the medical community created by the sudden surge in demand and shortage in supply. At the same time, the health and safety of our employees, customers, and communities is our top priority,” continued the company statement. “We have been able to mobilize our global teams to help sustain production and fulfillment, while ensuring their safety and health including virtual meetings, workspace distancing, and scheduled operational work shift teams in cooperation with the best-practice recommendations from the World Health Organization (WHO), national health organizations, and other local government agencies.”

We are all in this together. Portescap’s commitment to making motors that improve, enhance and save lives is stronger than ever.


Portescap offers the broadest miniature and specialty motor products in the industry, encompassing coreless brush dc, brushless dc, stepper can stack, gearheads, digital linear actuators, and disc magnet technologies. Portescap products have been serving diverse motion control needs in wide spectrum of medical and industrial applications, life science, instrumentation, automation, aerospace and commercial applications, for more than 70 years. Portescap has manufacturing centers in the U.S. and India and utilizes a Global Product Development network with research and development centers in the U.S., China, India, and Switzerland.

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