Clipper Windpower Marine Limited, has received a grant of GBP 2.5 million from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (“DECC”) for the manufacture of gearboxes for Project Britannia, a 10 MW offshore wind turbine currently under development by Clipper. Under the terms of the grant, David Brown Gear Systems is named as supplier of the prototype gearboxes. Read the rest of this entry »

Wind turbines market is growing fast: NKE and General Electric have introduced two different solutions for the same application. Read the rest of this entry »

Good initiative in the San Francisco Bay Area (USA) from Bison, that offered a gearmotor for charity. Read the rest of this entry »

In modern planetary gearboxes used in wind turbines has been introduced a modular bearing system: It allows the standardisation of the bearings and consequent simplified logistics. Read the rest of this entry »

The right-angle planetary gearhead presented by SGR is specially designed for agriculture industry. This reducer is used to transmit low torque power into high torque power to drive the machine to cut or crush plants. Read the rest of this entry »