Off-highway driveline equipment hits USA/Canada

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Jan 17, 2002

Newage Transmissions is launching a major export drive into North America with the appointment of two distributors and nationwide support for its off-highway vehicle driveline equipment

Newage Transmissions is launching a major export drive into North America with the appointment of two distributors and a nationwide support organisation for its recently re-developed range of off-highway vehicle driveline equipment.

Newage axles, transmissions and transfer boxes will be sold and distributed throughout Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, South Illinois, South East Indiana, West Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama and Florida by Darwin Industries from its facilities in Coffeyville, Kansas.

Customers in USA's Upper Mid-West - comprising Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, Wisconsin and Upper Michigan, as well as Manitoba and Saskatchewan in Canada - will be supplied by Shank Power Products of West St Paul, Minnesota.

In addition, country-wide after sales and warranty support for Newage's advanced driveline solutions range will be provided by Fairfield Manufacturing of Lafayette, Indiana.

"The capabilities of our latest off-highway products have been extended to include vehicles with up to 10 tonne axle loading," says Newage's Sales and Marketing Director, Miles Johnson.

"The range has been specifically developed with the American market in mind and will be the centrepiece of our presentation at the forthcoming Conexpo 2002 trade show in Las Vegas.

We have already seen high levels of interest from several American original equipment manufacturers; underlining the potential of our products in the construction, materials handling and ground support equipment sectors." "We are delighted to have found such a strong group of partners to represent us in the important United States market," he continues.

"Shank and Darwin both have track records of supplying specialist vehicle components and sub assemblies stretching back almost 50 years.

Likewise, Fairfield is renowned as having one of the world's largest independent manufacturing operations for gears and power transmission equipment - which it backs with a comprehensive after sales support infrastructure." Alongside Fairfield's centralised facilities in Indiana, Darwin Industries will be stocking key components and finished units at its 30,000 ft2 plant in Coffeyville, to ensure off-the-shelf availability of Newage products for customers throughout North America.

Commenting on the new agreement, John Trueman, President of Shank Power Products said: "Newage driveline equipment has an excellent reputation for durability, reliability and performance.

It perfectly complements the other ranges of vehicle products we supply.

My colleagues and I are excited to be part of this new initiative and are already following up a number of significant sales opportunities.

We are therefore extremely confident of building sales quickly from a standing start.".