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DINN roller chain, commercial quality for when the price is the deciding factor

In addition to our A-brands roller chain, brands like HKK Chain and Wippermann roller chain of top quality, we also deliver roller chains in the DINN series, produced under the expertise and supervision of K&W Transmissies in China. If the price must be the deciding factor, this chain is a good alternative.

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ScanCoveryTrial 2019

Once again, K&W Transmissies has sponsored the ScanCoveryTrial.

Team 7,  Hans Ketelaar and Diana Hoolwerf drived the ScanCoveryTrial 2019 together for the first time. Hans gained experience during an earlier edition, and this made his wife so enthusiastic that he could not miss out on a joint participation. In their daily lives, Hans and Diana work together at their company K&W Transmissies as highly skilled chain specialists to provide Dutch machine builders with the perfect chain and matching customized sprockets.

Criss-crossing Scandinavia
Over a period of one week, the ScanCoveryTrial crisscrossed beautiful Scandinavia. During that week, our Team 7 drived over 7,000 kilometres, often through lots of snow and ice, in temperatures down to minus 47 degrees Celsius. The team visited the special destination in North of Norway. The 9th edition started on Thursday, January 3th, and finished on Saturday, January 12th, 2019. The route was similar to that of previous years, except for the special destination, which was top secret. The ScanCoveryTrial is definitely not a race or a rally competition but a car journey in which the strict observance of the traffic rules is essential for the entire trip.

Football is all about technique!

K&W Transmissies supports ElitE 3 and therefore sponsors this football team. The AFC 34 friends team from Alkmaar has also been given the opportunity to recruit an ElitE professional for an indefinite period of time. Roy Pistoor, a multi-talent on and off the pitch, should make it easier for R. Mohr to achieve good results in the coming year.

Maintenance-free high-performance chains for customised drive solutions

The latest generation of high-performance chains Wippermann brand offers an even wider range of applications and is characterized by the high modularity of the components, which enables the configuration of the chain for customised drive solutions with optimum performance that are precisely geared to the customers’ requirements.

In particular the new polymer bearing TRIGLEIT II supplements the range of applications in corrosive environment, such as in the case of permanent water contact.

Read more about: Maintenance-free chains

Our six high-performance version cover a wide range of operational performance:

Maintenance-free chains

Storks in Flevoland

Storks are gradually winning ground in Flevoland. For quite some years now they have no longer felt restricted to the "Natuurpark Lelystad" boundaries. Nowadays, you will find more stork couples outside of the park, while the younger birds fly south at the end of the summer and stay there over the winter.

Nevertheless, the storks could still use a little support. And for this reason K&W Transmissies has installed a nesting pole in its own garden. Exactly on March 1st this year, a new couple took possession of the nest, as shown in the picture. Once again, we can start monitoring the nesting of these magnificent birds from our windows!

When visiting K&W Transmissies, one should pay attention to the pylons along A6 where many storks have taken up their annual residence. You will see many storks flying in and out to finish their nests on time.

Nice piece of steelwork!

For a large customer, K&W Transmissies produced two hub extensions with a diameter of 670 mm, of which the hubs and the disk had to be produced from solid material. For this piece of steelwork we bought two pieces of steel weighing 520 kg each! During the rough turning on one of our high-quality CNC machines, in which the large hub on the one side and the small hub on the other side and the bore were bored, 345 kilograms of shavings came out. Eventually, after the holes were milled on the pitch circle and a spline toothing was applied, the sprockets still weighed another 175 kilos each. The high tolerance requirement of the customer was the reason the sprockets were milled in this way. Due to high accuracy, the tolerance limit was only 0.005 mm; hence it could not be a welded construction.