First Gear was built from the ground up for the most demanding customers. Up-to-date, automated equipment, directed by comprehensive computer and gear cutting manufacturing expertise from a gear blank to final gear inspection. We combine thorough understanding of state-of-the-art gear hobbing, gear shaping and gear grinding systems with complete dedication to your specifications and schedule. Our gear inspection equipment certifies our quality and ensures our conformance and registration to AS9100 Revision D. We also use statistical process controls for monitoring and measuring quality. This is a feature that is also integrated into our inspection equipment.

First gear has the equipment in place to handle everything from prototypes to high volume gear hobbing. About half of our business is cut teeth only on customer’s blanks. In today's economy, many companies are realizing increased profits and staying competitive, both domestic and overseas, by outsourcing their gear hobbing needs to us. Whether your requirements are for spur gears, helical gears, internal gears or external gears, we are the source for all of your gear manufacturing. We do custom and production hobbing, shaping and grinding of spur gears and helical gears in all quantities from one gear to hundreds of thousands.