Advanced PEEK Gears for Automotive, Robotics and E-Mobility
It's time to replace metal gears
Our PEEK-based VICTREX™ Gear Solutions include gear design, prototyping, testing and manufacturing capabilities using VICTREX HPG™ polymers and help our customers gain a competitive advantage.
Transforming power into motion
Thermoplastic gears - a commercially viable solution for powertrain NVH improvement
Watch to learn all about durability data, NVH performance and cost saving potential.
Gear Innovation from Every Angle
VICTREX™ Gear Solutions include high-precision gear design, prototyping, testing and manufacturing capabilities using VICTREX HPG™ polymers. Being able to work with one single partner from concept to mass production helps our customers gain a competitive advantage and accelerate time to market.
Design & Analysis
40+ years of experience in high-precision PEEK gears
- A unique shape-optimised gear design method to produce high-precision molded gears that maximize the benefits of VICTREX HPG™ gears.
- We approach gear design by working with our customers to understand the entire system, not just the workings of our polymer gears.
Prototyping
Accelerating time to validation
- Integrated prototyping services to quickly and cost-effectively reflect production intent and accelerate overall time to market
- Ability to produce a wide range of polymer and/or metal prototypes using various processes
Testing
On-site component CAE analysis
- Our state-of-the art CAE tools allow us to validate design and predict gear mesh performance
- Internal and external gear testing capabilities support and accelerate the validation process
Tooling
On-site tool shop
- With our on-site tool shop we enable faster lead times for product development
Quality System & Inspection
Consistently meeting industry standards
- Online quality inspection with state-of-the-art equipment and analysis software to ensure maximum precision
- Highest quality system standards with ISO 9001:2015 registered, GADSL List 02/2017; IATF 16949 awarded in 2019
Manufacturing
Managing capacity to meet your demand
- On-site injection moulding enabling precise and fully automated high-volume production of high-performing precision polymer gears
Quiet, efficient and cost-effective gear solutions
- Cost-Effectiveness
- Performance Benefits
- Processing Benefits
VICTREX HPGTM POLYMER GEARS - A VIABLE AND COST-EFFECTIVE ALTERNATIVE TO METAL GEARS
In efforts of reducing system cost while improving performance, VICTREX HPG gears have been found to offer:
- Cost reduction potential for mass production due to the economical, one-step injection-molding manufacturing process of our PEEK gears
- Reduced part cost through eliminating secondary machining, hardening, or finishing operations while generating less scrap
- Reduced system cost through considerably reducing weight, inertia and system complexity.
- Cost-Effectiveness
- Performance Benefits
- Processing Benefits
POLYMER GEAR SOLUTIONS THAT GO BEYOND METAL PERFORMANCE
Compared to metal gears, VICTREX HPG™ polymers enable a range of performance benefits:
- Improved powertrain NVH (noise, vibration and harshness) performance - up to 50% (3 dB) reduction in powertrain NVH eliminates gear whine, while supporting driving comfort
- Lower energy consumption from a 70% weight reduction and improved responsiveness, with moment inertia reduced by 80%
- Reliable performance in aggressive environments with chemical and corrosion resistance, vibration isolating properties, low CoF
- Cost-Effectiveness
- Performance Benefits
- Processing Benefits
EFFICIENT AND FAST MANUFACTURING THAT HELPS ACCELERATE YOUR TIME TO THE MARKET
- Hybrid technology allows overmoulded inserts of metal, composites or other plastics
- Precise and repeatable manufacturing ensuring net shape components with tight tolerances.
- 100 % recyclable material and the environmentally-friendly one-step injection molding process vs a machined metal process that generates large amounts of scrap
Gear up for cost-effective NVH in automotive applications
VICTREX HPG gears offer cost-effective, durable NVH in engine and actuation gears with a 360° approach from gear design to mass production.
Designing the next generation of cobot gears
VICTREX HPG™ & thermoplastic hybrid gears offer an alternative to metal planetary system gearboxes. The high precision, tight tolerance and repeatability enables unconstrained cobot engineering design freedom.
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