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1000 HP Motor Redesign

Horner Industrial, Springfield OH division, has recently acquired two large customers from one competitor, who fell from grace by not meeting the service expectations of the customers. One of these customers is a large cement processing facility. After firing our competitor, our new customer sent in orders for two 1000 HP motors. One was a large, low speed crusher motor for rebuild and reconditioning. The other order was for a replacement spare fan drive motor that was obsolete and no longer produced. Bill Roper, our salesman in northern OH, located a used motor that was the correct frame and RPM. The [...]

1000 HP Motor Redesign2026-04-14T10:22:39-04:00

Power Plant Outage

A power plant in Indiana had Horner recondition 6 large motors during an outage they had in April. The Power Plant is a coal fired electric generation plant. The key component of the power generation plant is the boiler, and is also called the steam generator. The essence of the power generation plant is to create the steam in boilers. This steam is sent at high pressure to a turbine that generates electricity. The coal is first crushed into small particles using equipment called pulverizers. A joint effort between the Terre Haute Shop, the Washington St. shop, and field service helped [...]

Power Plant Outage2019-09-18T15:37:39-04:00
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