10030 Amberwood Road
Fort Myers, Fl  33913
(239) 561-1561   (voice)
(239) 561-1502      (fax)

4500 State Route 152
Lavalette, WV 25535 
(304) 523-4700   (voice)
(304) 523-4039      (fax)

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Saminco is a private, wholly American owned company specializing in the design and manufacturing of High Power AC and DC Motor Control products. 

With underground coal mining as our main customer base, we provide Traction Drives that operate reliably in the harshest conditions imaginable.

We have taken our experience of supplying controls for electric vehicles that haul 40+  tons of coal and miners safely in and out of coal mines to both on and off road electric vehicles, including Fuel Cell Buses and Automobiles, Hybrid Trucks and Buses, Streetcars, Airline Ground Support Vehicles and Battery powered vehicles of all types.

Company Overview

Founded in June 1992,  Saminco designs and manufactures solid state electric vehicle traction controllers powered by Batteries, Hybrid Electric, Fuel Cells and Power Centers. Our controllers are used in fuel cell and hybrid electric buses, automobiles, light rail vehicles and underground mining. We have customers in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, South America and Australia. We have factory trained and authorized service centers in North America, Europe, South Africa and Australia with negotiations presently underway in China.

The principal shareholder of Saminco Inc. is Bonne W. Posma, who has over 40 years experience with the solid state control of AC and DC motors.

Saminco employs over 80 people at multiple locations in North America. Saminco has over 20 years experience in building traction drives and has manufactured electric traction drives for Fuel Cell Buses produced by 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.

We manufacture DC/AC converters to allow variable speed operation of 3-phase AC machines over a power range from 0.5kW through 700kW.  We are presently developing a new1000V AC inverter rated up to 400HP continuous.

We are the prime supplier for EATON/Cutler-Hammer for their Respondor II series of Digital DC industrial overhead crane controllers.

At Saminco we have excellent in-house test facilities and 500 kVA of available power for testing traction drives up to 500 kW rating and high-speed brushless motor drives up to 100 kW at 20,000 RPM.

We have strong R & D capabilities and are presently building controllers for shunt DC motors, series DC motors, brushless DC motors, induction motors, fuel cell power converters, electric vehicle traction drives and spindle drives up to 60 kW and 60,000 RPM.

July of 2001 we opened a second location in Lavalette, West Virginia, which now is our primary service and training facility for our mining controls. In our pursuit to become the leading manufacturer of electric traction drives, Saminco is continuing to expand its manufacturing capabilities, with our new rebuild shop in Logan, WV, and continues to hire traction drive engineers and technicians.

Our track record of successful projects arises from our policy of understanding our customers' requirements and then exceeding their expectations.