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Company Highlights:
Philadelphia Gear has been a leading supplier to the US Navy and Coast Guard for over seven decades.  The company has supplied main reduction gears and other power transmission systems for a variety of US Navy and Coast Guard vessels.  Examples of these include aircraft carriers, submarines, destroyers, ice-breakers, landing craft and support vessels as well as the main reduction gears for the Navy’s LPD-17 San Antonio class of ships.  In 2008, Philadelphia Gear acquired programs, intellectual property, equipment and transition assistance from the GE Marine Gear business located in Lynn, Massachusetts.

Overview:
Philadelphia Gear Corporation is a 117-year old privately owned company, headquartered in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.  The company has two primary businesses: providing power transmission equipment and services to the global energy industry, and manufacturing and servicing main reduction gearing and related power transmissions systems to the US Navy and Coast Guard.  The company has tens of thousands of gear drives installed in over 100 countries as well as hundreds of military and commercial ships throughout the world.  Philadelphia Gear operates manufacturing and service centers in Delaware, Illinois, Alabama, Texas and California.