We often get questions from customers about the force/deflection tensioning recommendations on a Design Flex printout. The report lists the ...

Drive noise evaluation in any belt drive system should be approached with care. There are many potential sources of noise in systems includ...

Gates is offering free 2011 preseason belt drive components to all interested FIRST Robotics teams. To help teams determine what parts may ...

We publish that converting from V-belts  to synchronous belts will save an average of 5% of the drive's energy consumption.   Sometimes ...

A lot of people associate the acronym HTD with synchronous belts. While there is good reason for this, most take it a little too far, and b...

Some ultra-sensitive applications require belt drives to operate with as little vibration as possible, as vibration sometimes has an effect ...

PowerBand V-belts are multiple Gates V-belts that are joined with a single backing. PowerBand V-belts provide the following advantages (comp...