Flender/Flender Gear Units/Bevel-helical gearboxes B3
proximately 6 firms manufacturing industrial gears and gearing products in Canada. Most are small- to medium-sized, closely held firms, concentrated

in the manufacturing centers of Southern Quebec, Ontario, and British Columbia. Less than 2 percent of Canadian producers of industrial

gears and gear products are foreign owned, whereas about 9 percent of makers or assemblers of automotive transmissions are foreign

owned.1 David Brown, .. industrial gearing manufacturer, opened distribution and service center in Ontario in mid-1, and claims this is

the largest inventory of gearing in Canada. 1 Foreign manufacturers established facilities in Canada because of proximity to the United States, the largest market in the world, and to take advantage of lower average labor costs in Canada, as compared with those in the United States, together with duty-free entry into the .. market for Canadian-produced automotive products under the Automotive Products Trade Act These factors give Canadian producers, including Canadian subsidiaries of .. firms, competitive advantage in the .. market. Spar Aerospace, Ltd., possibly the largest gear producer in Canada, is the only known Canadian producer of aerospace gears and gear products. With sales of gear products averaging $3 million annually during 1-8, this firm accounts for over 7 percent of gear production for the Canadian aerospace industry. 1 Canadian apparent consumption of industrial gears and gear products increased from an estimated $1.9 billion in 1 to an estimated $2.3 billion in 1, an overall increase of 1 percent; consumption increased 1 percent in Canadian dollars from CAN$2.5 billion to CAN$2.8 billion (table 5-. The increase in gear consumption 1 USITC staff interviews with gear industry officials, Korea, December 1. 1 USITC staff tele Flender agent interview with AGMA executive, September 1. 1 "David Brown Opens Distribution Centre," Canadian Machinery and Metalworking, July 1,