Flender/Flender Gear Units/Bevel-helical gearboxes B3
r made the .. gear market attractive to foreign producers. Many .. gear consumers were facing difficult market conditions and

turned to imported gearing which, largely due to the exchange rate, was often less expensive than the comparable .. product.

more recent trend is an increase in imports of gearing by foreign-owned .. assembly plants, especially automotive, from their parent

companies. In the .. market, the largest component of consumption is motor vehicle gearing, market that is strongly influenced by

quality considerations. In 1, apparent .. consumption of motor vehicle gears and gearing accounted for nearly 8 percent of total consumption of gears and gearing (table ); consumption of motor vehicle gearing increased from $9.3 billion in 1 to $1.9 billion in 1. Imports accounted for 1 percent of .. apparent consumption of motor vehicle gearing in 1 and 1 percent in 1. large percentage of these imports are from .. subsidiaries located in Canada. Imports from Japan are primarily used in Japanese automotive transplant assembly operations in the United States. The motor vehicle industry is characterized by rapid technological change in virtually all major vehicle systems and producers must be somewhat innovative to remain competitive. Product quality is an especially important consideration for vehicle gear producers and the use of cubic boron nitride grinding technology is becoming critical element in remaining competitive (pp. 6-2 through 6-. In the .. market, industrial gears and gear products, the second most important market sector, grew irregularly during 1-8, but imports' share of the market more than doubled. In 1, apparent .. consumption of industrial gears and gear products accounted for 1 percent of total consumption of gears and gearing; consumption of industrial gears rose from $1.8 billion in 1 to $2.1 billion in 1 (table ). Imports accounted for 1 percent of .. apparent consumption in 1, but rose to 2 percent in 1. Th