New Customization Options Now Available Through Matex

For years, if a standard planetary gear didn't quite fit your application, your options were limited - pick the closest standard size and design around it, or go looking for a specialty manufacturer willing to take on a one-off project. That's changing. Matex Gears now offers customers access to the extensive custom and semi-custom design capabilities.

This Isn't New to Matex - Just Newly Accessible

Our standard catalog of Planetary Gear Modules - 26mm to 200mm in outer diameter, 0.8 Nm to 1,300 Nm in output torque - is really just the starting point for a much broader set of engineering capabilities.

Some examples of what that custom design process has produced:

• A stainless-steel planetary gear reducer engineered for a lunar exploration vehicle, based from the standard LGU75-5MAD model and reworked into an design able to withstand the environment of the lunar surface.
• EOD (explosive ordnance disposal) robots for defense applications.
• Parastaltic pumps and other precision components for the medical field.
• Custom gearing for electric pumps and manufacturing equipment across a range of industries.

If a standard model can be adapted into something that survives on the moon, there's a good chance it can be adapted to fit your application too.

What Customization Can Mean for Your Project

Depending on your requirements, custom work with Matex can include:

• Material substitution - moving between plastic, sintered metal, and machined steel (or combinations of the three) to hit a specific weight, cost, or durability target.
• Modified shaft and housing configurations - solid shaft, splined, keyed bore, or multiple-output arrangements built around your mounting requirements rather than a standard catalog part.
• Application-specific engineering - working from a standard unit as a starting point and modifying it structurally for unusual operating environments (extreme temperatures, contamination, shock loading).

How to Get Started

Customization typically starts with a conversation, not a spec sheet. If you have an application that doesn't quite fit anything in our standard plastic, sintered metal, or steel planetary gear lines, tell us what you're working with — torque, space constraints, environment, volume — and we'll help determine whether a modified standard unit or a fully custom design is the right path.

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