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The Rowland Company is an authorized distributor for top quality manufacturers and products in various industries. Please click on the link below to see our line cards for the industries we support.

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High Torque—Small Envelope

PROBLEM Most of us are not usually designing machine guns, however, they do represent some unique requirements: high torque, limited space and lightweight. A company developing a chain gun approached us. They needed a clutch and faced all of these constraints. SOLUTION We reviewed […]

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Handling a Hot Drum

PROBLEM Our customer needed to turn a large drum as it came out of a furnace. The original design consisted of steel rolls. Unfortunately, the co-efficient of friction between the steel drum and steel rolls was too low. As a result, the drums simply […]

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High Maintenance—Short Life

PROBLEM Our customer builds special gear boxes that are used for the textile industry. The process requires that each box is driven by a common shaft, and that these gear boxes be capable of being moved in-and-out along the length of the shaft. Traditionally, […]

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Hard To Start Shredder

PROBLEM Our customer shreds scrap wood and bark into mulch. His shredder includes a flywheel which helps the mill keep going under heavy loads. Unfortunately, this increased inertia really loads up his DC motor during start up. SOLUTION This application was ideally suited for […]

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Engine Test Stand Coupling

PROBLEM Test stands that use a variety of engines can often be a coupling problem. Our customer found out the hard way—in a short period of time when their drive shaft failed. SOLUTION We reviewed their test requirements and found that the most common […]

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Material Handling Overload

PROBLEM More and more large distribution center warehouses are popping up all around the country. These facilities handle large volumes of consumer products from clothing to home furnishings to toys. Many of these operations are large automated bin storage systems from the floor to […]

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Retrofitted Brake Improves Plant Safety

PROBLEM We are all very interested in providing as safe a work place as possible. It was this concern that prompted our customer to ask us to find a brake for one of his processing lines which coasted for several minutes after shut down. […]

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