Ductile Iron Girth Gears for the Cement Industry

摘要

The cement industry is known for its conservative approach to equipment and girth gears are a specific case in point, with steel the only material specified for duty on kilns and mills. David Brown Engineering is a global leader in the design, manufacture and installation of industrial gears, and sends its engineers around the world meeting customers needs. Sometimes they simply replace like-for-like when gears fail, but in many cases they offer improvements in terms of gear technology or in material design. Here David Brown Engineering sales manager, Colin Thornton, outlines the exciting new opportunities presented with the use of ductile iron instead of steel for the manufacture of large girth gears.