Gearboxes made of plastic: reliable and maintenance-free

Strain wave gear

• Compact, quiet and efficient
• Areas of application: precise motion transmission, low torques
• Suitable for: small robot arms

Worm gear

• Robust and durable
• Areas of application: high torques, slow movement, secure position holding
• Suitable for: conveyor technology, robotics, lifting systems, part-turn actuators

Rotary axis with motor

• Compact and easy to install
• Areas of application: 360° movement
• Suitable for: turntables for assembly applications, camera panning in photography

Apiro® the modular gearbox system

• Modular lightweight design
• Areas of application: wide range of requirements, flexibility in design
• Suitable for: automation, robotics, industry, manual and motorised drives

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Planetary gearbox

• High transmission ratios
• Areas of application: high torques in a compact design
• Suitable for: CNC machines, robotics, packaging machines

Other gearboxes and drive components
Discover our wide range of high-quality solutions for industrial systems and robotics applications. Optimise the performance of your application with our gearbox technology!

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Manufacturing with injection moulding or 3D printing guarantees cost efficiency and creates the geometrical freedom to optimise use of installation space. The flexible modular system allows the gearboxes to be expanded as desired and integrated into existing systems.

drygear® gearbox technology uses plastic gears made of high-performance polymers. The gearboxes require no external lubricants, so they are resistant to dirt. No maintenance is necessary, so associated costs are eliminated.

Our gearboxes require not a single drop of lubricating oil. This benefits not only our users, but also the environment. Our tribologically optimised materials also generate less abrasion, which means less energy is needed.

Thanks to motion plastics®, drygear® plastic gearboxes impress with ultra-light materials. This results in much less noise and vibration. For you as an operator, plastic gears - for example in robots - lead to an application that is up to four times quieter.

Gearboxes that function reliably in either particularly warm or cold environments? The drygear® gearbox technology products can withstand almost all conditions. We also have gearboxes and motors in our product range that are suitable for extreme temperatures from -30°C to +180°C.

Around 50 in-house drygear® test stations are available for individual customer tests. We also test our gearboxes daily for active research and development.

Format adjustment with Apiro gearboxes
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