First Gear Engineering & Technology

From prototypes to high volume gear manufacturing, First Gear is your first choice. Whether we make complete to your print or you provide the blanks, First Gear has the experience and equipment in place to handle everything from prototypes to high volume gear manufacturing. About half of our business is gear machining only on customer’s supplied blanks. Whether your requirements are for spur gears, helical gears, internal gears or external gears, splines and shafts, we are the source for all your gear manufacturing. We do custom and production CNC machining, to include turning, milling, ID/OD grinding, hobbing, shaping and finish grinding of spur gears and helical gears in all quantities from one gear to hundreds of thousands. We also do hob and shaper cutter re-sharpening for FG tools as well as other gear companies. Quality Certifications AS 9100 Rev D IS0 9001: 2015 ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation; contract inspection/calibration services of your master gears, gages, gears and splines. ISO 13485 accreditation for Medical Devices. (In Process) Industries Served Defense - Aerospace - Outer Space - Medical & Dental - Off Highway - Food and Packaging - Industrial - Motor Shafts - Racing – Robotics - Agriculture -Hydraulic Let First Gear assist in design and project management from concept to finished gears. Gear Manufacturing, Gear Hobbing, Gear Grinding, Gear Skiving, Gear Shaping, Turning/Milling, ID/OD Grinding, Wire EDM, Laser Marking, Hob / Shaper/ Broach Sharpening, Prototype, Pre-Production, High Volume Gear Production, Gear Inspection, Gage Recalibration, Carbide Re-hobbing, Hob and Shaper cutter re-sharpening, REM Superfinishing