DLS manufactures and supplies complete drive line systems and components from leading agricultural and construction OEM’S. DLS offers genuine 'Mechanics' heavy duty driveshafts and components and 'Rockford Clutch' products. With manufacturing facilities in eight locations and six different countries, GKN Drive Line Systems (DLS) offers a truly global offering to its customers.
DLS, alongside the other businesses in GKN OffHighway, prides itself in its ability to design and develop complex driveline systems, optimizing performance for standard systems as well as customer design engine gearboxes and ground devices.
DLS has continuously invested in research and development capabilities and has two technical centres, one in Europe and the other in North America. With state of the art CAD, FEA and test facilities, DLS offers a wealth of experience and designed solutions for customers; power transmission applications.
DLS has recently introduced a number of exciting new products. These include the ICVD Gearbox (Integrated Continuously Variable Drive), which revolutionizes the market by offering a fully variable speed drive with speed ranges from 0-40 kph, while significantly reducing noise and fuel consumption. Together with a hydromechanical gearbox for use in harvesting equipment to optimize drive speeds at constant mechanical input speeds. For further information please visit http://www.icvd.info/en/services/icvd-drive/
The latest driveshaft product is the newly introduced 'Mechanics' 20C tube type driveshaft. This shaft weighs in excess of 650lbs and was designed for the largest mechanical driven haul truck produced worldwide.
Product range:
- PTO Drive Shafts
- Heavy Duty, High Horse Power Driveshafts & Components
- Gearboxes
- Ground Drives and Locks
- Hydraulic Clutches and Oil and Air Actuated Variable Speed Fan Clutches
- DUJ Drive Shafts
- ICVD