RENK Aktiengesellschaft
In 1873, RENK was founded in Augsburg as Mechanical workshop to manufacture any type of gears. Therefore the enterprise can look back on more than 135 years of experience and own development work in propulsion technology. Since 1923, RENK Aktiengesellschaft is a member of MAN SE, one of the leading European offerers of capital goods.

Today RENK is one of the worldwide acknowledged manufacturers of high-quality special gears, components of propulsion technology and test systems. RENK products excel by highest precision and reliability as well as excellent quality. Experience and creativity in development, design and manufacture guarantee RENK products a top position on the international market.

RENK develops and builds industrial gear units for almost any field of application. The RENK product range includes one-off special-purpose gear units for power generation, cement production, rubber and plastic industries, water and wind power stations, transport and conveyer equipment, and open-pit mining applications.

Production takes place at three plants in Germany as well as at associated companies in France, Switzerland and in the USA.

RENK is divided into four independent strategic company divisions:

Special gear units

The Augsburg plant is focused on the construction of special bull gears for marine and specific stationary applications whose performances reach values up to 140 MW and torques up to 15 million Nm.

As an innovative player in gear tooth technology, RENK-MAAG stands for proven original MAAG quality where the dimensioning and manufacture of gearboxes, synchronizing clutch couplings and toothed wheels are concerned.

Vehicle transmissions

Comprise the vehicle transmission division at the Augsburg plant and the French affiliated company RENK France. RENK is the leading manufacturer of tracked vehicle transmissions worldwide.

Moreover, the Augsburg-based associated company RENK Test System GmbH manufactures testing rigs. The company develops and builds ready-to-key test systems for development, manufacture and quality assurance of products of automotive, railways and aircraft industry. The test systems activities in the USA are handled by sales and service establishment RENK LABECO Test Systems.

Standard gear units

The Rheine plant is specialized in the product ranges of general industrial and high speed for values up to 75 MW for all kind of applications and large marine gear units for civil applications and couplings of all design types as curved tooth couplings for any type of industrial applications, for marine and ocean technology as well as rail vehicles. Steel multi-disk clutches for low- and high-speed industrial plants, diaphragm couplings for high-speed machines, safety couplings.

In addition RENK produces multi-megawatt gear units for offshore wind plants for values up to 6 MW.

Bearings

This business unit produces slide bearings as well as flexible couplings at the Hanover plant. The activities in bearing manufacture of the affiliated company RENK Corporation in the USA are part of this sector. RENK is also worldwide leading on the sector of electric machine bearings.

RENK Aktiengesellschaft
Werk Rheine
Rodder Damm 170,
48432 Rheine
Postfach 19 53
48409 Rheine
Phone: +49 (0)5971-790-0
Fax: +49 (0)5971-790-208
E-Mail: info.rheine@renk.biz
E-Mail IB Nord: manfred.welter@renk.biz
E-Mail IB Nord-Ost: holger.lohmann@renk.biz
E-Mail IB West: roger.eickhoff@renk.biz
E-Mail IB Süd: johannes.hellermann@renk.biz