Gleason has been associated with many industries including Automotive, Jobbing Industry, Farm & Construction, core sectors like Energy (Wind Turbines), Industrial Gear Box Industry, General Engineering, Defence, Railways, Mining, etc. Gleason is a pioneer in providing total gear solutions including the design and calculation of gears as well as complete drive trains, manufacturing of cylindrical and bevel gears with almost all technologies which include soft cutting, hard finishing, workholding, cutting tools and metrology solutions. Gleason has 14 plants all over the world to support global gear industry and developing newer technologies for modern & efficient production of gears.
Gleason India was started in 1996 at Bangalore and has opened a new facility at Aerospace Park, Bangalore in August 2017. The new manufacturing and service plant provides many benefits to existing and new Gleason customers in the Indian region: raising manufacturing and assembly efficiency, employing state-of-the-art process principles and quality tools and showcasing latest technology production equipment, resulting in products which respond to global top manufacturing standards.
In the beginning, Gleason India supported the industry with bevel gear cutting tools and resharpening support for bevel stick blades and hobs as well as re-manufacturing of older Gleason machines. This original activity has expanded and today we supply high-speed CNC gear hobbing machines upto 210 mm with the two current models to support automotive and small gear box industry: Genesis 130H & Genesis 210H.
In 2017, Gleason further enhanced its product range to include a CNC gear shaving machine “Made in India” to offer a local economic shaving solution at a high technical level as continued support for our customers. Along with this, Gleason also supports the industry in offering new gear shaving cutters and shaving cutter resharpening services using Gleason’s latest 410 SCG CNC Shaving Cutter Grinding Machine.
Likethe hobbing machines, the new shaving machine will also be supported with workholding systems (fixtures),locally manufactured by Gleason India. Hence, Indian customers will receive a complete, worry-free solution including machine, workholding and necessary tools to produce excellent quality at efficient cost.Gleason India has the necessary infrastructure to support all of these activities which will be augmented in the coming years as Gleason has long-term plans to bring more products to India while supporting more customers in the Indian marketplace.
