Gear Cutting

Platinum Tooling Technologies, the importer of Heimatec live tools and angle heads, offers a variety of products designed to enhance the capabilities of Swiss CNC lathes. In addition to live tooling and angle heads, Platinum oofers speed multipliers in gear ratios of 1:2, 1:3 and 1:4 with max speeds to 48,000 rpm.

Tungaloy Corporation and NTK Cutting Tools announce that, effective January 1, 2027, NTK Cutting Tools will merge with Tungaloy, marking a new chapter for both organizations. The merger is subject to compliance with applicable legal and regulatory requirements. Following the merger, the integrated organization will operate under the Tungaloy corporate name, while retaining the NTK Cutting Tools brand.

Gleason Corporation plans to exhibit its latest developments in gear design, manufacturing, and inspection technology, including closed-loop manufacturing and lights-out production at IMTS 2026, complemented by the Gleason Digital Ecosystem. Gleason’s gear technology experts will be available to discuss specific applications, such as the manufacture of gears for humanoid robots, aerospace and energy industries, as well as solutions addressing other key global trends shaping the future of gear manufacturing.

Advances in 5-axis CNC machining centers and turn-mill machines now enable manufacturers to cut gears with precision and efficiency—using specialized tools designed for multipurpose platforms. Star SU offers a range of tools that work with universal CNC machines to unlock gear manufacturing flexibility.

Derek Schroeder of GROB showcases the company's latest aerospace machining solutions at MTS Series East 2025, highlighting a horizontal five-axis machine equipped with a 630 mm pallet and a highly rigid Z-axis designed for high-precision milling, drilling, and gear skiving.

Precision Express matches an in-house profiling cell with a broad range of on-hand stock, cutting wheel manufacturing and delivery lead times from months to days. Even when gear manufacturers see a spike in demand or need a custom profile at a moment's notice, Weiler Abrasives can provide consistent availability and delivery.

Manufacturers can achieve 90% machine use reduction with power skiving.

To ensure the surfaces on the gears are optimized, it is essential to use metrology tools to analyze, understand, and characterize.

John O' Neil, engineering manager for gear tools at Star SU has been elected by the Gear Research Institute to its Board of Trustees for the 2021- 2023 term.

Boulevard Machine & Gear, a gear-cutting shop founded in 1954 to serve the paper industry in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts, began a period of modernization and investment with the 2006 acquisition of the company by Susan Kasa. Kasa's focus was to grow the company and become more efficient.

Schwanog's PWP broaching system reportedly can produce internal and external shapes, such as serrations, splines, hexagons and keyways, on CNC lathes with a c-axis. The system includes an insert ground to create the desired shape, a retaining screw and a steel toolholder.

A new paper by Forest City Gear engineer Andrew F. Vincent, Ph.D., has been released entitled, A Note on the Design of the Gap Between Helices on a Double-helical Gear. The paper focuses on how the design and how it "imposes a necessary lower bound on the gap between the helices it is meant to produce."