40+ Year Cotta Employee Celebrates Retirement

Cotta employees gathered today for Ray Labunski’s retirement celebration. Ray has been an integral part of Cotta’s engineering team for over 40 years. He has made tremendous contributions, and will always be valued and remembered for his hard work, commitment, and dedication.  Some other past Cotta retirees, who were employed 40+ years, came back to join in the celebration as well.

Everyone at Cotta wishes Ray a happy and healthy retirement! Ray is certainly going to be missed, but will always be a part of the Cotta family!

 

 

 

Top Mast Drives for Rotary Drill Application

Cotta Transmission is currently in the process of assembling top mast drive gearboxes for a rotary drill mining application.  The rotary drills are built for long life, and are equipped to perform in extremely harsh conditions.  Cotta’s gearboxes have stood up to the application’s requirements for over 10 years now, and continue to play an integral role in their success.

Specifications:

  • Ratio: 16.04 to 1
  • Max Input Speed: 1800 RPM
  • Max Output Torque: 12000 ft lb
  • Max Thrust Load: 80000 Either Direction
  • Approximate Weight: 1600 lbs (726 kg)

Cotta specializes in providing customers with engineered gearbox solutions. The Cotta team continues to exceed customers’ expectations with the most reliable, durable, and powerful products available in our industry. To speak to an Application Engineer regarding any gearbox needs, call 608-368- 5600 or email sales@cotta.com.

 

 

Gearbox Parts Keep Flowing

Parts keep flowing through the shop as we head into the weekend.  Cotta’s engineering team has been busy with many new development projects from industrial type applications, oil and gas, high speed applications and more. Cotta Transmission gearboxes are crafted and matched to meet the specific needs of the customer, and are one of the most reliable, durable and powerful products available in our industry.

Cotta’s engineering team takes great pride in designing custom gearboxes. The team works with customers to discover their specific needs, or uncover the power issues causing problems, to design the best possible high-speed transmission gearbox, speed increaser or reducer, pump drive, or product the situation requires.

 

 

Cotta Celebrating Cinco de Mayo

Cotta celebrated Cinco de Mayo with a cookout for their employees today. Thank you to Cotta’s Human Resources Manager, Kelly Garcia, for making all of the arrangements!

High-Speed Gearbox – Test Stand Aerospace Application

Cotta has another high-speed gearbox in process for a test stand application that will be used in the aerospace industry. The housing for this gearbox is currently being machined on Cotta’s Milltronics HBM110XT.  The machine is ideal for this type of part, as it provides a large working table that can handle the heavy duty load capacity.

Gearbox Ratios, Torques & Speeds:

  • Ratios 1 : 8.36
  • Max Torque: 855 in-lb @ 27,239 RPM
  • Max Speed: 29,963 RPM

Low Speed Fuel Pump:

  • 1 : 2.61
  • Max Torque: 1,456 in lb @ 8,525 RPM
  • Max Speed 9,378 RPM

Main Fuel Pump: 

  • 1 : 11.00
  • Max Torque: 486 in lb @ 34,900 RPM
  • Max Speed: 38,390 RPM

Approximate Weight: 1,619 lbs

Cotta has designed and manufactured a diverse line of high-speed gearboxes that are used by some of the largest OEM companies in the world for numerous R&D and production test stand applications for automotive, aerospace, and industrial components.

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Milltronics HBM110xt

Custom Gearbox Solutions

A Cotta transmission gearbox that is personally crafted to meet your requirements is one of the most reliable, durable, and powerful products available in our industry.  Cotta takes pride and care in the design, and manufacturing of gearboxes. We work together to discover a customer’s specific needs, or uncover the power causing issues causing problems to design the best product for the customer.

Cotta designs in accordance with AGMS to ensure product quality, and to support out zero-defect policy. We have over 2,000 existing product designs available, plus our experienced engineers and craftsman can take any new transmission application from concept to delivery at our production facility in Beloit, WI.

Cotta combines our prior experience with forward thinking to provide the exact product our customers require. Cotta’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.

Examples of Cotta’s specialized products and services:

  • Reversing transmission gearboxes for rail maintenance vehicles
  • Heavy-duty, high-torque top mast gearboxes, transfer cases, and drives for drill rig vehicles
  • Planetary drives for applications ranging from auger drives to centrifugal separators
  • Turbine reducer/increaser gears up to 5,000 HP
  • Hybrid coaxial transmissions with test heads at both ends of a hollow output shaft
  • Flex drive “add-on” transmissions that multiply the gearbox output speed
  • Compounding gearboxes that combine two or more prime movers into one output
  • Four-Square gearboxes with two transmissions in opposition to increase test torque over input value
  • Design Services, Rotor Dynamic Studies, and other Personalized Analysis and Consulting.

Need Support? Contact a Cota Sales Engineer by calling 608-368-5600 or emailing sales@cotta.com.

 

Charles Cotta Revolutionized Automotive Industry

Charles Cotta is a name you might not recognize unless you know the “4X4”, a term used for four-wheel drive and four-wheel steering, a revolutionary idea that changed the automotive industry globally, inspired new methods of technological, mechanical ways of doing things.

Cotta, as far as is known, had no extended education, no engineering degree, but made all parts of the Cotta-mobile by hand, tooling and retooling, cutting and re-cutting. No “warehouse of parts” existed. Welding as we know it had yet to be developed. Charles Cotta, born and raised in Lanark, IL, was a self-taught genius in his field of expertise.

Specialists in Engineered Gearbox Solutions

Cotta is the premier leading manufacturer of top-quality, precision-engineered gearboxes for many specialized mobile and stationary applications such as vocational trucks, defense, off-highway, aerospace, heavy industry, well-drilling, mining, marine and much more.

You don’t 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.  Cotta’s engineers and designers work with our customers to develop solutions, and then deliver drawings in virtually any CAD format to drop into the customer’s own design.

High-performance products, collaborative team of experts, solving problems & exceeding expectations!

Celebrating 25 Years of Service!

On 2/24/21 Cotta celebrated Jason L. and Andy B. in recognition of their 25 years of service!

AGMA Silver Sponsor

AGMA expressed their thanks to Cotta Transmission Company, LLC for being a Silver Sponsor at the upcoming AGMA/ABMA Annual Meeting.  Cotta focuses on capability, efficiency, and the process flow to ensure the most important product quality.  Cotta has 55 techniques employed in all departments that improve standardization in the production process.

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High-performance gearboxes. Collaborative team of experts.

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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