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You do not have to be a gearbox expert with Cotta as your source. Whether you need a standard, modified standard, or a completely new design, our engineering team will work with you to meet your specific requirements, effectively and efficiently. …
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Reduction Unit

Reduction Unit for City’s Backup Pump

Cotta's long tradition of manufacturing the highest quality gearboxes, American-made for more than a century, is exemplified in an extensive line of speed reducers.  Cotta recently manufactured a reduction unit for a customer that was in need…
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Cotta Products - Applications

Cotta Products – Applications

Cotta transmission's complete product line supports a wide variety of industries and applications, where demanding performance is required under the most extreme working conditions and challenging environments.  Below are examples of some…
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4 Wheel Drive Patent

Charles Cotta Revolutionized the Auto Industry

It's been over 100 years since Charles Cotta patented a couple of devices that hardly anyone knew about, or cared about at that time.  Four-wheel drive and four-wheel steering, whose patents were applied for in 1900, were only one step in the…
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Aviation Test Equipment

High-Speed Gearboxes for Aviation Component Test Equipment

Staley Co., located in Carmel, NY, is one of the leading manufacturers specializing in Aircraft Ground Support Test Equipment.  Staley has been using Cotta high-speed gearboxes for some of their most difficult and demanding applications for…
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Auxiliary Gearbox

Auxiliary Gearbox Providing Precision Vehicle Control

Cotta's Model TR2273 is an auxiliary gearbox designed to provide precision vehicle speed control by using a hydraulic motor to rotate the wheel's drive shaft.  The Creep Drive control gearbox is installed in the drive-line between the main…
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Rail car mover

Split Shaft Gearbox Used in Rail Car Mover

Custom Truck One Source's rail car mover works in conjunction with a split-shaft Cotta gearbox and a pump drive. Cotta worked with Custom Truck to develop a gearbox solution that included all of the customer's requirements. In this application,…
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Speed Increasers

Speed Increasers for Sewer Cleaning Equipment

Cotta Transmission Company has been manufacturing gearboxes for fan drives for decades.  These speed increasers are being used to run 2 and 3 stage centrifugal fans in sewer cleaning equipment.  This type of application requires a robust gearbox…
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Two Speed Rail Axle

Two-Speed Rail Axles Running in Test Lab

Cotta manufactures two-speed rail axles for a customer that will be used for rail maintenance vehicles.   Options were made available to the customer to supply the axles with wheels and bearings installed.  Cotta systematically and comprehensively…
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Oil & Gas Industry

Rig Count Up – Place Your Order Now!

Reports indicate that the oil rig count has been steadily increasing over the past weeks, which means more gearboxes will be put back to work and the need for replacement gearboxes and parts will increase as well.  Rigs currently sitting on…
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Remote Monitoring Gearbox

Cotta’s Game Changer – Remote Monitoring

Cotta is now offering industry leading remote monitoring capabilities for many gearboxes within our product line.  Remote monitoring allows the user to view real-time performance of gearbox specific functions such as: Hours of operation …
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Quality Gearing

AGMA Sponsor

Over a century Cotta Transmission has been driven to provide customers with the highest quality products in the industry.  That success has come from staying on the cutting edge of technology, and is why Cotta has been a member of the American…
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Cotta Engineered Gearboxes are the most reliable and powerful products available in our industry. We take great pride in designing each unique gearbox with the latest technology. We deliver the best possible high-speed gearbox, speed increaser or reducer, pump drive, transfer case, or product type your situation requires.

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