Gear Technology Magazine
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Fairfield Receives $9 Million Contract

April 14, 2006
Fairfield Manufacturing, a division of the Saurer AG Group, received a $9 million contract to provide jacking drive gearbox assemblies to GustoMSC. The contract stipulates that Fairfield provide ABS certified jacking drive planetary gearboxes lifting more than 300 tons each and rated for output torque of more than one million N-m. ?At five times the size of our largest planetary unit, this development helps Fairfield reach TorqueHub planetary drive solutions to meet market needs in marine/offshore market applications,? says Paul Schlueter, vice president of sales for Fairfield.