Gleason Cutting Tools Corporation

Wherever superior gear performance is needed -- from hand-held power tools to super tankers, from automobiles to aircraft -- Gleason Cutting Tools Corporation gear tools are at work, helping raise the standard of bevel and cylindrical gear manufacturing to levels unimaginable just a few years ago.

At Gleason Cutting Tools' ultra-modern Rockford, Illinois facility, new microfine grain carbide substrates, advanced new tool coatings, breakthrough tool designs and revolutionary manufacturing technologies all come together under one roof for the development and production of the next generation of bevel and cylindrical gear cutting tools.

Our product line includes the following bevel cutting tools:

· RIDG-AC® - an inserted-blade, circular, face-mill roughing cutter
· HELIXFORM® - a single-cycle, inserted blade finish cutter
· WEDGE-AC® - an inserted-blade, face-mill cutter for high production
· HARDAC® III - an adjustable, inserted-blade cutter
· SOLID - designed with the blades and cutter as one integral unit
· RSR® - a roughing, completing cutter, utilizing tool bit-style blades
· PENTAC® - cutter systems for face hobbing and cutter system
· TRI-AC® - stick blade-type face hobbing cutter system
· CONIFLEX® - cutters used to generate straight bevel gears
· REVACYCLE® - circular, broach-style cutter straight bevel gears
· GENERATOR TOOLS - resharpenable tools for straight bevel gears
· CBN plated form grinding wheels


We also manufacture the following cylindrical cutting tools:

· Hobs - the largest selection of hobs available anywhere
· Isoform® Shaper Cutters
· Milling Cutters
· Wafer® Shaper Cutter and Wafer® II Cutters
· Wafer® Hob - disposable, non-re-sharpenable hob
· Opti-Gash® Hob - throw-away or re-sharpenable
· CBN Plated Form Grinding wheels
· Hurth Shaving Cutters


Gleason Cutting Tools' additional services:

· Advanced Heat-Treat
· Blade re-sharpening, cutter head repair and reconditioning and certification
· EXPRESS service - door-to-door Pick-up and Delivery Service
· Coating Service
· Hob cutter sharpening service
· Shaper cutter sharpening service
· Training and Gear Schools