Flender/Flender Gear Units/Bevel-helical gear box B3
Overview This appendix describes the .. ,ear-making machine tool industry, its production and trade, and its principal competitors. Currently, ..

gear producers are dependent to large degree on foreign sources for certain types of gear-making machine tools. variety of other

machine tools and equipment used by .. gear producers, including machining centers, milling machines, lathes, boring machines, drilling machines, 1

heat treatment equipment such as carbide and nitride furnaces and quenching presses, and inspection equipment used to determine metallurgical soundness,

are readily available at competitive prices in the .. market. The continued existence of .. gear-making machine tool and gear metrology machine industry is critical to national security and to the competitiveness of the .. defense industrial base. An autonomous domestic industry capable of producing state-of-the-art gear production machinery is also important to national security. In many machinery categories, .. machine tool builders cannot provide the most up-to-date equipment, or "they are unable to do so within acceptable price/delivery limits." 2 Foreign gear producers such as West Germany and Japan have ready access to strong machine tool industry and therefore maintain competitive edge, whereas .. gear manufacturers are dependent on foreign machinery lag behind their foreign competition. 3 The production of gear-making machine tools and metrology machinery is concentrated in few firms worldwide most of which are located outside the United States. .. gear-making machine tool builders reportedly face several competitive disadvantages, many of which are identical or similar to those faced by .. gear manufacturers. These include extended tax depreciation schedules for machinery, lack of an investment tax credit, and high capital costs. Other factors adversely affecting .. gear-making machine tool builders are dependency on foreign components. According to .. indust