Manufacturing
Manufacturing
At the 155,00-square-foot Cloyes manufacturing plant in Paris, Arkansas, USA, highly-skilled employees manufacture machined powertrain gears, sprockets, and idler assemblies for automotive original equipment manufacturers, the automotive aftermarket, marine, and high-performance applications. The plant’s key processes include machining, hobbing and shaping, heat treatment, and finishing, and the plant is also home to a quality and metrology laboratory that supports both manufacturing and engineering product development.
- Broaching is the process where the Internal Diameter (ID) of the part is brought to final size.
- Cloyes has thousands of attribute gauges to inspect many part characteristics on the shop floor where the parts are being processed.
- Cloyes’ state-of-the-art metrology lab includes inspection equipment such as CMM, Gleason Gear analyzer, and hardness tester.
- Cloyes has many conventional hobbing machines and gear shaving machines.
- Cloyes utilizes bar acmes to efficiently turn sprocket and gear blanks from steel bar.
- Cloyes utilizes CNC turning laiths for precision turning to produce high performance sprocket and gear blanks.
- Cloyes utilizes shaping machines to produce high quality splines and sprocket teeth.
- Cloyes utilizes CNC milling to produce a wide range of bolt patterns, counterbalances, and weight reduction features.
- Cloyes utilizes keyway broaching to cut the keyways in many of the sprockets we produce.
- Cloyes has two induction heat treat machines and one tempering furnace – this is a competitive advantage compared to many other manufacturing facilities that outsource heat treating while we do this work in-house.
- All Cloyes products must go through a final inspection audit prior to being released to finished goods.
