This article takes a look at a few common automotive parts and sees how heat treatment is used to make them better.

Heat treatment plays an important and – most would agree – critical role in gear manufacturing.

Given the ever-increasing trend toward renewable energy, the production of large gears and bearing rings – such as those used in wind turbines – is gaining in importance.

The Timken Company announced the opening of a new gear drive manufacturing facility in Houston, Texas.

The nitriding of gears has been a controversial subject over the past 20 years or so, but it is now becoming a favored thermal-processing technique.

Sungear, Inc. of San Diego, Calif., joined H-D Advanced Manufacturing Co. (H-D), a holding company for precision-engineered products.

Gear Motions Inc. of Syracuse, N.Y., acquired Buffalo, N.Y.-based Niagara Gear Corp., a manufacturer of precision ground spur, helical and pump gears for a diverse customer base.

Höganäs AB, a metal-powder technology company, installed a new combined vacuum sintering and low-pressure carburizing (LPC) furnace at its PoP Centre in Sweden.