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Customized Hob Shapes

Customized Hob Shapes can be designed and manufactured to your exact specifications. We provide custom special drive hobs and shank hobs.

Shank Hobs

Shank hobs are designed for today’s high cutting velocity tools with extra long active cutting lengths. They are designed for most machines in today’s hobbing machine market, including shank styles to fit the old Barber Colman hobbing machines to cut small diameter worm gear applications.

Special Drive Hobs

Special Drive Hobs can be designed and manufactured for any special requirement – from OD and face clamping to clutch key ways with special hubs.

Star SU delivers world-class gear cutting tools, advanced coating technologies, and engineering expertise that help manufacturers improve precision, productivity, and performance. Driven by decades of innovation and global expertise, we engineer complete solutions that support the evolving demands of gear manufacturing worldwide.


5200 Prairie Stone Parkway
Suite 100
Hoffman Estates, IL 60192 USA

Tel. (847) 649-1450
Fax. (847) 649-0112