There are a lot of industrial applications for gear products in harsh environments with not a lot of sources for them. Some of those applications require operating under water. I’d say that’s pretty harsh. But it’s something we’ve been able to oer in a number of instances. A customer recently approached us with a request for a gearbox to be used in a wastewater treatment plant. We had done other applications for this customer, but this one had to be able to operate underwater. They were designing an agitation system, which in this case, included an impeller that slowly rotated to keep sediments from accumulating on the bottom of the wastewater reservoir. There are a variety of other aerators, agitators and scrapers that require gearboxes with corrosion resistant properties in wastewater

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