Adkev's first acquisition brings together two financially stable, family-owned companies on organic growth trajectories ...

Advances in polymers have created plastic gear solutions that are superior to metal gears.

Plastic camshaft module is claimed to be lighter and greener than aluminum By Ben Coxworth May 04, 2020 The module is available to interested parties as a functional demonstrator ...

We’ve seen several methods of repairing plastic gears. After all, a gear is usually the same all the way around, so it is very tempting to duplicate a good part to replace a damaged part. That ...

It’s very likely that a majority of readers will have had a gear fail in a piece of equipment, causing it to be unrepairable. This is a problem particularly with plastic gears, which shed teeth ...

A design program hosted by Ticona (Summit, NJ) at www.ticona-us.com helps engineers examine the feasibility of using plastic gears in their devices. Developed in conjunction with software firm ...

Gleason Corp., a specialist in cutting tools and metalworking machinery to produce metal gears, is moving into plastic gear production by purchasing K2 Plastics Inc. of Bergen, N.Y. Bergen is near ...

Abandoned fishing gear, often called "ghost gear," is breaking down in our oceans and adding to the problems brought by plastics and microplastics. But there was a recent effort to get the United ...

The use of plastic gears is limited, largely because it takes special expertise to design them properly. Too, many engineers deal with gears so infrequently, ...