(Alva Industries: Trondheim, Norway) -- Alva Industries (ALVA), a manufacturer of frameless motors and owner and creator of FiberPrinting technology, brought its interactive slotless vs. slotted motor technology demo to WoTS 2026 in Utrecht, Netherlands.

The hands-on demo allowed visitors to directly interact with both a conventional slotted motor and an ALVA slotless motor. By rotating the motors by hand and exploring the different demo modes, visitors can experience cogging compared with smooth, cogging-free motion, as well as strong holding torque and precise, responsive control. Watch or read more about how the demo works.

Alongside the demo, ALVA showcased motors from its SlimTorq and GearTorq product families. SlimTorq is ALVA’s thin, lightweight frameless slotless motor series, while GearTorq has been developed specifically for geared applications and actuator systems. Both are based on ALVA’s FiberPrinting technology.

Nicolas Giraudo, chief commercial officer of ALVA, says, “ALVA is in the middle of an exciting scaling up period, and discovering daily a high number of new verticals and applications that seem to be aligned with our growth ambitions. ALVA allows engineers to have maximum design flexibility with little to no compromises.”

At WoTS, ALVA’s motor technology was presented as part of the wider range of motion and sensing technologies showcased by Zilvertron and Sentech.

René Jansen, managing director of Zilvertron, says, “For more than 30 years we have helped OEMs solve precision motion challenges, and we select our partners with care. What convinced us about ALVA is the design freedom their FiberPrinting technology offers: slotless frameless motors without cogging, in shapes and sizes adapted to the application instead of the other way around. Combined with the expertise within the Techwell Group in motion, control, sensing, and application engineering, ALVA’s technology enables us to deliver fully integrated motion solutions that help OEMs push the limits of performance. That is exactly the kind of smart motion solution our customers in semicon, medtech, and high-precision machinery are looking for.”