Gear Motions Announces Joint Venture with KBE+

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Gear Motions, Inc., has announced a joint venture with KBE+ Inc., an engineering consulting firm that specializes in the design and development of gear trains and power transmission devices. The companies have reached an exclusive agreement to utilize each other’s specialties in their ongoing business operations.
“This is the perfect merger of more than 50 years of collective KBE+ experience and more than 100 years of Gear Motions’ application experience,” says Gear Motions President and CEO Sam Haines.

Dr. William Mark McVea, president and founder of KBE+, has a wide range of experience in power transmission fields, including work as an off-highway drive trains design engineer and a design and research engineer with New Venture Gear. He has also been responsible for program development production at the Torsen Drives division of the Gleason Works. “The addition of Dr. McVea to our precision gear manufacturing program helps broaden the services that Gear Motions offers its customers,” according to Dean Burrows, president of Nixon Gear, part of the Gear Motions network. “By offering the capability to design, we can provide to our customers a full-service platform from design, through testing, into prototypes, full-scale production, and service. More importantly, his vast experience will further allow us to review and develop new designs on the front end of the process, when there is greater opportunity for maximizing the cost/performance equation.”

After design completion, KBE+ provides full simulation and analysis using state of the art software and computational techniques. Full on-premise laboratory facilities are used to verify and test any design or system. If a client prefers to use its own test facilities, onsite test engineering liaison services and independent results validation are available.

Gear Motions also recently announced its acquisition of Pro-Gear Co., Inc. Pro-Gear is a gear manufacturer for original equipment manufacturers such as Mack Truck, and also provides quick-turnaround gear grinding services for gear manufacturers that need additional capacity or companies that need external gear grinding services.

Gear Motions is a gear-grinding network that includes Nixon Gear and KBE+ Inc. in Syracuse, New York, and Oliver Gear and Pro-Gear in Buffalo. The company designs and manufactures cut or precision ground gears for customers around the world. Products include precision spur, helical, bevel, and worm gears, as well as multiple types of belt sprockets, timing pulleys, and splines. For more information visit www.gearmotions.com. KBE+ Inc. is an engineering consulting firm that provides design, analysis, and test services for gear systems and mechanical transmissions. The company specializes in the analysis of gear systems from design, through prototype testing, to manufacture. For more information visit www.kbeplus.com.