Established in Halifax, UK, circa 1950, Holset Engineering Company developed the premium rubber-in compression, fail safe and long-life drive couplings. They have been delivering products to South Africa for over 40 years – suiting powers from 1HP upwards and torques from 28Nm to 6,000KNm.

Similar coupling ranges are also supplied with torques from 400Nm to 5,520KNm, adapted specifically to marine & diesel flexible drive coupling applications and high-tech compression drives.

From 1983 onwards, the ranges were extended to include torsionally softer couplings through various ‘rubber-in shear’ type coupling designs, developed to suit changing market requirements. These serve torques from 1,000Nm to 30KNm for diesel drives, and 138KNm for marine and compressor drives.

A new MSC coupling was developed to meet the need for low torsional stiffness, together with fail-safe rubber-in compression. These are designed to cover torques up to 375KNm.