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About KTR Systems

KTR Systems GmbH is a family-owned German manufacturer of power transmission components for mechanical and plant engineering, headquartered in Rheine. The present company traces to Kupplungstechnik GmbH, founded in Rheine on 30 September 1959 to market the BoWex curved-tooth gear coupling to a wider market, building on a family engineering history that began with F. TACKE KG in 1886. Its best-known product families include the ROTEX torsionally flexible jaw coupling, introduced in 1967, alongside a broad range of couplings, brake systems, cooling systems and hydraulic components used to connect drives to machines across heavy industry and general machinery. KTR presents itself as a technology partner that develops drive components for many industries, with manufacturing and competence centres in Germany — including a brake competence centre at Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock and an R&D centre in Rheine — and a production plant in Jiaxing, China.

The company has grown through subsidiaries founded across Europe, the Americas and Asia, most recently in Singapore in 2022, giving it a direct presence on all major industrial markets. For robotics and automation buyers, KTR is relevant as a drivetrain component supplier whose couplings and brakes sit inside machine tools, handling systems and automated plant equipment.

Products & services

• Couplings (including ROTEX jaw couplings and BoWex curved-tooth gear couplings)
• Brake systems
• Cooling systems / coolers
• Hydraulic components
• Drive components for mechanical and plant engineering

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