Renk Aktiengesellschaft

Renk Aktiengesellschaft develops, produces, and distributes drive technology products worldwide. The company operates through Special Gear Units, Vehicle Transmissions, Standard Gear Units, and Slide Bearings segments. It provides automatic shift, reverse, and steering transmissions with brake systems and final drives for tracked vehicles of medium and large weight classes; and test rigs for development and quality assurance applications in the automotive industry, aviation industry, and railway engineering. The company also offers gear units for cement plants, plastics industry, and wind turbines; spur and planetary gear units for the petrochemical industry and power plants; and marine gear units for merchant vessels, ferries, cruise liners, and naval craft with diesel engine and turbine drive and electric drive; and marine reversing, reduction, and control gear units for ship generator systems. In addition, it provides horizontal and vertical slide bearings for electrical machinery, blowers, compressors, pumps, turbines, and general mechanical engineering applications; slide bearings for transmissions; and marine shaft bearings and thrust bearings. Further, the company offers curved tooth couplings for industrial applications; steel multi disc clutches for slow and high-speed industrial systems; diaphragm couplings for high-speed machinery; safety couplings; and torsionally flexible couplings. The company was founded in 1873 and is headquartered in Augsburg, Germany. As of October 6, 2020, RENK Aktiengesellschaft operates as a former subsidiary of Volkswagen Vermögensverwaltungs-GmbH.