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Gearing Up With Plastics

Improved materials, designs, and molding techniques are making relatively low-cost plastic gears more competitive with metal in higher-load applications. The GW Plastics modular tooling system, which molds up to AGMA Class 6 spur and helical gears, can cut time-to-market from 14 weeks for a dedicated tool to seven weeks.

The October 1998 issue of Molding Systems magazine, published by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, presented an article titled: “Gearing Up with Plastics” that included information on GW Plastics’ gear molding capabilities.

GW Plastics is a global, high-precision injection molder, mold builder and contract manufacturer specializing in single-source responsibility for medium-to-high volume, close-tolerance components and assemblies. Ranked among the top 100 molders in North America, GW Plastics’ leading-edge technologies, total quality commitment and pursuit of innovation have driven its steady growth since the company was founded in 1955. The financially strong, closely held organization services a portfolio of Fortune 1000 customers in the Healthcare, Consumer/Industrial and Automotive markets. The companies facilities are located in Bethel and Royalton, Vermont; San Antonio, Texas; Tucson, Arizona; Queretaro, Mexico; and Dongguan, China.