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Niagara Gear adds first-of-its-kind Gleason® 245TWG Gear Grinder

Niagara Gear is pleased to announce the addition of the new Gleason® 245TWG High Speed Threaded Wheel Grinder, the very latest technology in precision, high production gear grinding. This first-of-its-kind machine enables Niagara Gear to deliver ground gear quality at shaved gear prices! Now, you can eliminate process related deviations and subsequent heat treat distortion with an affordable hard finishing solution.

Niagara Gear is pleased to announce the addition of the new Gleason® 245TWG High Speed Threaded Wheel Grinder, the very latest technology in precision, high production gear grinding. This first-of-its-kind machine enables Niagara Gear to deliver ground gear quality at shaved gear prices! Now, you can eliminate process related deviations and subsequent heat treat distortion with an affordable hard finishing solution.

Niagara Gear's new Gleason 245TWG gear grinder offers many advantages to help us meet your needs and exceed your expectations:

• Maintains critical size requirements on a consistent basis.
• Enables affordable hard finishing using metal removal rates -- unthinkable until now.
• Improves tooth profiles while eliminating form errors and other undesirable excitations via direct drives.
• Ensures the ultimate in accuracy by incorporating proven form-grinding methods and components into an exceptionally rigid, water-cooled base.
• Thermal compensation via sensors throughout the process further enhances accuracy as well as part-to-part consistency.
• Provides grind times surpassing those of existing, conventional CNC grinding equipment by as much as 30% for significant savings on both cost and turnaround time.

Features of the new Gleason 245TWG gear grinder include:

• Remarkably fast dressing, loading and synchronized meshing of wheel to part
• Infinitely variable direct drive, water-cooled grinding spindle capable of speeds in excess of 60 meters/second
• Complementing variable speed, water-cooled work spindle, running up to 1,000 RPM
• Temperature controlled, high pressure coolant system