In response to the challenges of the international mechanical engineering industry, the gearbox specialist Neugart, headquartered in Kippenheim, Baden, is adjusting its management structure: for the first time in the company’s almost one-hundred-year history, Swen Herrmann and Holger Obergföll are the company’s two managing directors who are not members of the owner families. The reorganization…

Neugart responds to the desire of many machine builders for more compact, lighter servo drives with two corresponding gearboxes: The newly developed PLQE040 and PLFE055 extend the proven Economy series PLQE and PLFE by two smaller frame sizes and round out the corresponding portfolio downwards. In packaging and many other machines, countless small handling units…

Neugart, a manufacturer of high-quality gearboxes and drive systems for automation technology, celebrated the official groundbreaking ceremony for its new Plant 3 at its Kippenheim headquarters on July 26. With an investment of more than 25 million euros and a floor space of over 7,000 m2, the company is thus setting a forward-looking example for…

The link between the physical gearbox and the digital world is established through a data matrix code (DMC), a 2D code on the gearbox nameplate. This can be scanned using a smartphone or tablet, for example. Alternatively, access is possible through a web portal on the Neugart homepage (www.neugart.com). This identification, which is as smart…

The Neugart Calculation Program (NCP) configuration tool reliably leads to the most cost- and energy-efficient gearbox-motor combination. In the new NCP 4.3 version the performance of the program has been improved further through enhanced multi-core usage of the processor. Above all, effective immediately the proven software will offer many additional features and optimizations – including…

  Axially space-saving, economical, IP65-compliant, and designed for high radial and axial forces at the output: The WPLHE combines all the advantages of the successful PLHE, the world’s first combination of the Economy and Precision gearboxes, as a right-angle variant. Specifically, the WPLHE features both the gearing of a proven economy gearbox and a high-performance […]

Neugart is extending its portfolio of planetary gearboxes, especially for rack and pinion drives, with an additional option for a fitted pinion from its in-house production. Two specific types of pinion are available: the PK1 pinion is fitted to the toothed output shaft of the gearbox, whereby the secure connection that is required is provided […]

Electric adventure vehicles (EAVs) need light transmission components but lots of torque. So EAV maker Outrider USA recently sourced a Neugart planetary gearbox to solve the design problem. Outrider makes several versions of the Alpha (for everyday use on gravel and streets) and the Horizon for offroad cycling. Each model has a drive to output […]

From a power transmission standpoint, Electric Adventure Vehicles (EAVs) pose an interesting design problem. On one hand, they require transmission components that are not too heavy or bulky. On the other, they need lots of torque or they won’t be much fun to drive. When Outrider USA, which manufactures a line of EAVs, looked to…

Neugart, a worldwide manufacturer of planetary and custom gearboxes, has received the Festo Supplier Elite Award for its contribution to the high productivity levels of Festo’s automation equipment….

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Neugart USA’s hygienic HLAE gearbox is the world’s first planetary gearbox certified to 3-A Sanitary Standards. Neugart products meeting this stringent certification for hygienic equipment design include the…

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