Recent breakthroughs in profile grinding software are helping Anderson Precision Gears and others meet wind power’s insatiable appetite for faster production of large, high-quality gears.

“The gear marketplace is a global marketplace.” Bill Bradley says it easily, with no special emphasis. The vice president of AGMA’s technical division sees the statement as an obvious fact.

As the international business community grows closer together, the need for understanding differences between national and international gear rating standards becomes increasingly important for U.S. gear manufacturers competing in the world market.

AGMA has started to replace its 2000-A88 standard for gear accuracy with a new series of documents based largely on ISO standards. The first of the replacement AGMA standards have been published with the remainder coming in about a year. After serving as a default accuracy specification for U.S. commerce in gear products for several decades, the material in AGMA 2000-A88 is now considered outdated and in need of comprehensive revision.

The seemingly simple process of placing a uniform chamfer on the face ends of spur and helical gears, at least for the aerospace industry, has never been a satisfactory or cost effective process.

Fred Young, president of Forest City Gear in Roscoe, Illinois, discovered a new market on a flyfishing trip on the White River in Arkansas.

Steven J. Campbell was promoted to senior vice president at Hawk Corp. and president of the company's performance racing segment. ...

Indian conglomerate Mahindra & Mahindra is in the final rounds of negotiations to acquire SAR Auto Products, a Rajkot, India-based manufa...

The Power Transmission Distributors Association's (PTDA) latest report claims that U.S. and Canadian end users consider the product q...

The Kapp Group has introduced a combined process for hard finishing transmission gears that involves two machines?one for grinding and th...