Rapid Gear’s quality gear cutting meets needs in many industries

Gear cutting is a specialty of Rapid Gear.

Rapid Gear has been serving Canadian industry for more than four decades with its top machining skills. Its capabilities range from designing and manufacturing new gears to building and rebuilding gearboxes – always exceeding customer expectations in the process. Another significant advantage of working with Rapid Gear is its high skills in gear cutting.

The Rapid Gear team can cut everything from one-off to small runs, working with materials as diverse as cast iron, nylon, alloy steel, and bronze with hardened and ground teeth.

Gear cutting to high standards

From small businesses to international corporations, customers of all kinds rely on Rapid Gear to fulfill their unique requirements over and over again. The company has high quality standards in gear cutting, manufacturing top custom gears to metric or imperial specifications according to stringent AGMA and ISO regulations.

With its fully equipped machine shop, the Rapid Gear team has the ability to cut spur, double-helical, internal, worm, sprocket, bevel, and rack gears in a wide range of diameters, pitches, and faces. This blend of reliable, state-of-the-art machinery and a group of highly trained, experienced machinists guarantees that every job with be completed on schedule, with a high level of quality. The company recently acquired a new portable gear inspection arm, the first of its kind in Canada, and a new Toshiba boring mill.

In addition to cutting new gears, Rapid Gear can machine new housings and components for top reliability and performance. Reverse engineering is also available: when an original OEM is out of business or cannot help, the customer can turn to Rapid Gear’s experts to improve on the original design and come up with a superior product.

With its high gear-cutting capabilities, Rapid Gear has what it takes to meet the needs of customers in a wide variety of industries. Clients in the military, mining, pulp and paper, aggregate, cranes and lifting equipment, and ski-lift repairs continue to turn to this company for top gear cutting.

Other great services available from Rapid Gear include onsite inspection, evaluation, preventative maintenance, minor repairs, and more. Although the company operates out of a 40,000-square-foot facility in Kitchener, Ont., onsite services are also available for extra convenience.

For more information, contact Rapid Gear.

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