Gates Announces Revolutionary Hydraulic Live Swivel

Gates Corporation today announced the availability of Gates Live Swivel couplings for use in high pressure rotating hydraulic applications. This new technology helps protect hoses, increases safety, prevents equipment damage and environmental contamination. Gates Hydraulic Live Swivels use a new, patented “ball-less” technology eliminating the weaknesses present in traditional ball bearing design swivels. The advanced leak-free, self-lubricating design of Gates Live Swivels outlasts all bearing and race products in the market today providing superior performance and lower operating costs while being environmentally friendly.

“The demands of today’s hydraulic industry are higher than ever before. Customers expect increased productivity, more up time and improved return on investment. Gates Live Swivels give our customers the longest-lasting, trouble-free and lowest-cost-per-hour live swivel in the marketplace,” said Rick Mirtz, Fluid Power Product Manager for Gates. “Superior technology and dependable performance equals less time between repairs and lower rebuild costs.”

Designed for use in forestry, high articulation construction equipment, rotating grapples, and anywhere boom truck operations take place, Gates Live Swivels rotate up to 270°, will not pull apart during operation and are easy to rebuild. The coupling is engineered to show weeping, indicating when a rebuild is necessary, eliminating unnecessary downtime and reducing maintenance costs. Rebuilds can also be done in the field, leading to increased productivity.

Gates Live Swivels are stronger and tougher than competitors. In impulse cycles to failure tests the Gates coupling lasted nearly three hundred thousand cycles as compared to other competitors, which reached just under fifty thousand cycles.

For additional information about Gates Hydraulic Live Swivels, contact your local Gates representative or visit us on YouTube – keyword: Live Swivel.

About Gates Corporation

Gates Corporation is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of industrial and automotive products, systems and components with operations in 33 countries. Gates maintains sales and marketing operations in every major industrial and automotive market, including North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and the Middle East. Gates is part of the Industrial & Automotive group of Tomkins plc, a global engineering group listed on both the London (TOMK) and New York (TKS) stock exchanges, and with revenue of $4.2 billion in 2009 Tomkins plc has over 25,000 employees worldwide and enjoys strong market positions and technical leadership across all of its business activities and owns some of the best-known brands in their respective markets. For more information, visit http://www.gates.com or email [e-mail].