Industrial shafts are useful in a wide variety of businesses, including machine shops, processing plants, mills, water treatment plants, workshops and plumbing services. If your operation falls into one of these categories, and you're looking for transmission drive shafts for your equipment, contacting industrial shafting manufacturers is the way to get started choosing a product.

This guide can help you do so by narrowing down your choices and finding the companies that sell the products you need. Whether you need large or small shafts, fixed or flexible, you can check out each distributor of industrial shafts mentioned here and choose the one that will fit your business. Determine whether your requirements are:

1. Industrial shafts for machining and workshops

2. Mill and plant transmission industrial shafts

3. Industrial flexible shafts for plumbing services and tool shops

Action Steps
The best contacts and resources to help you get it done

Check out industrial shaft manufacturers for products to implement in your machine shop

Machine shops rely on transmission shafts as much as anything else; buy industrial shafts for your business and keep your equipment running the way it was designed. Whether you need serrated, worm or gear shafts, you can get the products you need by comparing the services of the industrial shaft manufacturers listed below.

I recommend: Look into industrial shaft suppliers such as Southeastern Shafting, Father & Sons Machine Precision, PQD International and Lee Linear. You can fill out quote request forms for the first two or check out products at PQD and Lee to gauge their suitability, then continue to their own information request forms.

Outfit your processing or treatment plant with shafts from industrial shaft suppliers

Operating a processing mill or water treatment plant means having all the right drive transmissions and shafts to maintain the continuous running of machinery. If you need large-scale linear shafts or smaller drives for basic processing equipment, turn to an industrial shaft supplier. Checking out a few of these companies will help you get the products you need.

I recommend: You can consider your options for industrial shafts for mill and treatment plant uses by checking out Johnson Power, an industrial shaft manufacturer. For smaller machining needs, you can also look at Precision Driveline and U.S. Manufacturing, two industrial shaft distributors that provide transmission shafts, or get an online quote by completing a form at Driveline.

Look into flexible shafts for your business from industrial shaft distributors

For industrial flexible shafts that connect rotary machines and other spinning motors to your tools, you have several options. Whether you need them for a plumbing business or for connecting to handheld tools for workshop applications, getting the industrial flexible shaft or shafts that will work for your business is essential.

I recommend: Get the industrial flexible shafts you're looking for by going to Suhner, Caswell or S.S. White Technologies. You'll have the option to see what standard products are available or, for more specialized applications, have a flexible shaft custom-made by choosing design specifications at S.S. White.

Tips & Tactics

Helpful advice for making the most of this Guide

• •  If you're just starting your company or are replacing your industrial shafts with different models, a good idea is to look into couplings and other connectors you'll need to hook the shafts to your equipment. Various suppliers sell couplings for fixed or flexible shafts.