Recently, I was approached by a colleague who is a manufacturer outside the gear industry...

Letters from readers in response to past issues...

For many in the gear and gear products business, these may seem like the best of times...

How can a company grow its business or plan for growth when its niche area only accesses the smaller part of the pie?

Letters to the Editor, August 2007.

Over many years of being in the machine tool business, it has been interesting to observe the way we suppliers are forced to quote and sell machine tools to many large companies.

We were delighted to see the plastic gear set pictured on the cover of your March/April issue. UFE played the lead role in its design and manufacture.

Creating standards for plastic gears calls for a deft touch. The challenge is to set uniform guidelines, yet avoid limiting the creative solutions plastic offers gear designers.

Sales are up and it's time to hire some additional gear manufacturing personnel. Let's see--what qualities are wee looking for in the ideal candidates?

We asked Fred Young, president of Forest City Gear Co., to answer some of the gear industry's burning questions.