In this article, we listed the top 10 gear motor manufacturers in the world, without any specific ranking. Some of them have a rich history, like FLENDER, established in the 19th century. They have made significant contributions to the gear motor industry, leading its growth and enhancing global industrial standards. Despite they are small at the beginning, these companies focused on meeting customer needs and overcoming technical challenges to achieve their current success.

INEED ELECTRONICS has rich experience serving Fortune 500 companies. Our engineering team focuses on simple motor designs. INEED experts always seek cost-effective solutions, delivering top electrical performance without unnecessary complexity. That’s why we have listed INEED Motor here.

INEED ELECTRONICS (HONGKONG) LIMITED

• Location: China
• Company Type: Manufacturing
• Year founded: 2011
• Main product: Small gear motor, Micro DC motor, Bruless DC motor
• Company Introduction: Founded in 2011 in Hong Kong, with factory locations in Shenzhen and Huizhou, INEED Electronics is a reputable manufacturer renowned for delivering superior custom DC motors and effective solutions. We specialize in manufacturing high-precision small gear motors, planetary gear motors, brushless DC motors, and micro DC motors with diameters ranging from 6mm to 42mm. INEED has been certified by ISO 9001. Our products are fully compliant with REACH and RoHS regulations, ensuring their safety and environmental friendliness. Whether you require individual motor components or complex mechanisms, INEED can fulfill your motor needs.

SEW-EURODRIVE

• Location: Germany
• Company Type: Manufacturing, wholesale
• Year founded: 1931
• Main product: Gear motors, reducers, motors, components for distributed installations, electrically controlled drives, mechanical variable gear motors and drive solutions for designing a large number of projects.
• Company Introduction: SEW-EURODRIVE is an owner-managed enterprise that has grown to become the world’s leading manufacturer of drive technology. In 1931, Christian Pahr founded the Sud Motor Factory. What started out as a private workshop in Baden has grown into a global technology company. The company has more than 900 engineers, 600 researchers, about 250 trainees and university students, and thousands of employees in R&D, production and sales departments around the world Work. SEW-EURODRIVE customers create customized solutions. SEW-EURODRIVE has 16 production plants and 79 Drive Technology Centers in 50 countries around the world. Customers can contact SEW at any time.
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FLENDER

• Location: Germany
• Company Type: Manufacturing, wholesale
• Year founded: 1899
• Main product: Industrial gears, Gearboxes for wind turbines, Turbo gears
• Company Introduction: Flander is a world leader in the manufacture of mechanical powertrains. Venturing into gear production since the early 20th century, the company gradually developed into one of the world’s leading manufacturers of gears and rotating systems after World War II. Flender’s gearboxes integrate decades of accumulated design expertise and technological advancements, combined with optimally enhanced new materials and technologies. Its applications span a variety of fields, including automotive manufacturing, food, pharmaceuticals, and so on.

HarmonicDrive

• Location: Japan
• Company Type: Manufacturing, wholesale
• Year founded: 1999
• Main product: Precision servo actuators, Gearheads and Gear component sets
• Company Introduction: The majority of the products sold by Harmonic Drive LLC are made at manufacturing facility in Massachusetts, USA. They are ISO 9001 and AS9100 registered. Harmonic Drive Group Companies in Japan (Harmonic Drive Systems, Inc.) and Germany (Harmonic Drive SE) provide additional products. They have shared core values, product designs and quality standards. State of the art manufacturing facilities in the US, Japan and Germany enables their to locally serve the needs of our global customers. With over 60 years of experience, they are very proud of their outstanding company history. High-precision, zero-backlash Harmonic Drive® strain wave gears and Harmonic Planetary® gears have, and continue to play critical roles in robotics, spaceflight applications, semiconductor manufacturing equipment, factory automation equipment, medical diagnostics and surgical robotics.
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Nabtesco

• Location: Japan
• Company Type: Manufacturing
• Year founded: 2003
• Main product: Precision reduction gears
• Company Introduction: Precision reduction gears for wide-ranging support of global frontier industries. Nabtesco has a long track record more than 20 years in this field and holds approximately 60% of the global market share. Precision reduction gears are mainly used in industrial robots to achieve accurate movements and high rigidity.
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Portescap

• Location: Switzerland
• Company Type: Manufacturing
• Year founded: 1931
• Main product: Brushless DC motors, Brush DC motors, Stepper motors, Gearheads, Encoders, Controllers。
• Company Introduction: One of Portescap’s greatest strengths is our focus on Engineer-to-Engineer collaboration and customization, as well as our global footprint. With offices, colleagues, and design, engineering, and manufacturing facilities located across the world, we’re able to fully provide our customers with robust support in all aspects of motion control solutions projects. One of our key office locations that illustrates this point is in West Chester, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Home not only to our design and engineering and application support teams, but also our sales office and our global manufacturing facility for our medical motors, the West Chester location is where innovation comes to life.
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Sha Yang Ye Industrial

• Location: Taiwan, China
• Company Type: Manufacturing
• Year founded: 1980
• Main product: Micro geared motors, Servo motors, Encoders, Intellectual automation devices and Robots etc.
• Company Introduction: SHA YANG YE Industrial Co. Ltd has been established in 1980. According to international quality standards to establish quality system, including the ISO 9001, TS16949, ISO14001. Through the laboratory management system(ISO/IEC 17025) that the laboratory environment / equipment / personnel to meet the requirements of laboratory capacity，establish enterprise traceability to international unit system(SI Units). Verification by TAF accredited laboratories，prove that the laboratory has a specific type of testing technology capacity，enterprises to obtain the trust of customers to ensure product quality. Now we have successfully won a good reputation in the industries including auto industry, industry automation, consumer product automation, medical appliance and communication industry.

maxon

• Location: Switzerland
• Company Type: Manufacturing
• Year founded: 1961
• Main product: Brushless and brushed DC motors, Brushless flat motors, Planetary gearheads, spur gearheads, special gearheads, Sensors, Servo amplifiers, positioning controllers, High-tech CIM and MIM components, Custom drives.
• Company Introduction: For more than 60 years, maxon have focused on customer-specific solutions, quality, and innovation. maxon develop and build electric drives that pack some real power. Their DC motors are leading the industry worldwide. maxon motors drive NASA’s Mars rovers. They are installed in insulin pumps and surgical power tools. You can find them in humanoid robots and in high-precision industrial applications, in tattoo machines, passenger aircraft, camera lenses, race cars, and cardiac pumps.
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ISL Products International Ltd.

• Location: USA
• Company Type: Manufacturing
• Year founded: 1975
• Main product: Audio components, DC motor, DC gear motors, Ballasts, Power supplies, Legacy products.
• Company Introduction: ISL Products International is the world’s leading manufacturer and supplier of value-added electromechanical components. Careful attention from ISL Products transforms standard component designs into “value-added” or application specific component solutions. ISL experts are always seeking cost-saving options. In most cases, we are able to optimize and enhance existing “standard” component designs, with little-to-no NRE or tooling expense. For the more specialized applications, ISL Products offers customized components as well.
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Micro Motors

• Location: Italy
• Company Type: Manufacturing
• Year founded: 1972
• Main product: Spur gear motor, Planetary gear motor, DC brushless motor, Stepper gearmotor
• Company Introduction: Founded in 1972 by Giovanni Magni Micro Motors produces miniature DC gearmotors with torque up to 9 Nm. The fields of application are numerous and include industrial automation, banking, medical, home automation, vending, wellness, safety, security, printing machines, ventilation etc.