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title: Typical Gear Applications
description: Applications for Intech Power-Core composite material corrosion resistant plastic gears. Design assistance, durability calculation for long gear life.
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# Typical Plastic Gear Applications

Due to plastic gears' relatively recent "coming of age", many products in the marketplace still use steel gears. In fact, **plastic gears** have always had a hard time shedding a negative stigma and concern with their use, dating back to when the only applications for **plastic gears** were found in toys and other non-critical applications. Through advancements in plastic resins and manufacturing techniques however, **plastic gears** today can be utilized in a multitude of crucial applications, from transmitting amounts of torque to accurate positioning of critical components in medical devices. **Plastic** offers many benefits, including design flexibility and significant cost savings.

**Plastic gears **possess many advantages over those made of metal. **Plastic gears **are lighter, quieter, retain an inherent lubricity and are corrosion resistant. They can be produced in a variety of types, including **bevel gears, offset bevel gears, spiral bevel gears, helical gears, metric gears, metric spur gears, plastic worm gears** and more. Cams, lugs, ribs, webs, shafts and holes can be molded into **plastic gears** in one integral design in a single operation, opening the door to significantly lower production costs. This versatility has paved the way  to a nearly endless list of applications, including:

![helical gears](https://www.intechpower.com/hs-fs/file-14944525-gif/images/gear_types.gif)

- Automotive
- Blenders
- Converting
- Conveyors
- Electronics
- Feeder Drives
- Food Processing
- Home & Garden
- Indexing
- Marine Steering
- Material Handling
- Medical
- Mixers
- Movie Animation
- Office Machines
- Packaging
- Paper Processing
- Power Transmission Distributors
- Printing
- Punch Presses
- Robotics
- Semiconductors

| **Call Intech today at 201-767-8066** or **Toll Free 1-877-218-2650** for more innovative answers to your **plastic gear** and application questions. ** **   **[Click here](https://www.intechpower.com/about-intech/request-information/)** to complete our Power-Core™ Request for Quote form. An Intech engineer will return your call and answer your inquiry within one business day. |
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