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Top 10 Transfer Case Brand & Manufacturers

This section provides a list of the top 10 Transfer Case manufacturers, Website links, company profile, locations is provided for each company. Also provides a detailed product description of the Transfer Case, including product introduction, history, purpose, principle, characteristics, types, usage and purchase precautions, etc.

Manufacturers (Ranking in no particular order)

BorgWarner (China) Investment Co., Ltd.
BorgWarner (China) Investment Co., Ltd.
Address: No. 1188 Zixing Road, Minhang District, Shanghai
Company Overview
BorgWarner Inc. (NYSE: BWA) is one of the leading suppliers of internal combustion, hybrid and electric vehicles, providing customers with clean and energy-saving drive system solutions. The company currently has 74 branches in 19 countries around the world and has approximately 30,000 employees. As a professional supplier to the automotive industry, BorgWarner focuses on assisting vehicle manufacturers in implementing stringent regulations with its outstanding technologies and products, while striving to meet customers' requirements for efficiency and performance. BorgWarner has five major business units: turbocharging systems, MOS systems, thermal emission systems, transmission systems and power drive systems. Its products cover key areas of vehicle drive and transmission, and it has become a technology innovator and industry supplier. Whether it is an internal combustion engine, an intelligent hybrid system or an electric drive system, BorgWarner has been committed to promoting the development of vehicle technology today and in the future. As an industry leader with more than 130 years of experience in the field of powertrain systems, BorgWarner is supporting the automotive industry to achieve clean drive systems and technology solutions for light, medium and heavy vehicles and off-highway applications.
Magna Automotive Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
Magna Automotive Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
Address: 3rd Floor, Office Building 2, Hongqiao Lihpao Plaza, No. 159 Shenwu Road, Minhang District, Shanghai
Company website: https://www.magna.com/en
Company Overview
Magna is one of the world's largest suppliers in the automotive field and a travel technology company. It has 181,000 pioneering and innovative employees around the world. Thanks to its reasonable operating structure, it is as aggressive as a startup. With years of technological accumulation and growth, it has been able to innovate in various fields of automobiles, design, develop and create a full range of product systems, and continuously drive the development of travel technology in this rapidly iterating industry. The company's branches are spread all over the world, with 344 manufacturing plants and 104 product development, engineering and sales centers in 29 countries. History Magna was born in a garage, starting with small-scale stamping products, and continued to develop with ambitions. By the end of the 1960s, Magna's sales had exceeded $4 million. By the 1970s, Magna's decentralized management culture took shape, with sales reaching $100 million and an average annual growth of 38%. In the 1980s, Magna accelerated its development, entered the field of automotive seats, and began to use reaction injection molding (RIM) technology to produce bumpers. In just ten years, Magna's sales reached $1 billion, a nine-fold increase. In the 1990s, Magna applied hydroforming technology from the pipe industry to the automotive industry, developing a high-pressure process for producing truck frames, which ultimately won the largest contract in the industry, even though Magna had never produced a truck frame at the time. Also in the 1990s, Magna had the ability to manufacture complete vehicles, with sales exceeding $9 billion and an average annual growth of 22%. In the past two decades, Magna has achieved organic growth through a number of key acquisitions, bringing composite tailgates to the market, leading the rearview camera industry, and accelerating the development of powertrain systems. Today, Magna has become a company with annual sales of $37 billion and is one of the world's largest suppliers in the automotive field with 181,000 employees.
Aisin (China) Investment Co., Ltd.
Aisin (China) Investment Co., Ltd.
Address: No. 1522 Kaixuan Road, Changning District, Shanghai
Company website: https://www.aisin.com/cn/
Company Overview
Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd. (English: Aisin Seiki; Japanese: アイシン精機株式会社), also known as Japan Aisin Seiki Company, referred to as Aisin Seiki, is a Fortune 500 company. It is a company that mainly manufactures auto parts, auto warranty equipment, hardware, mechanical equipment, power tools and other products. In April 2021, Aisin Seiki will merge with its core subsidiary Aisin AW Co., Ltd., which produces automotive transmissions. Founded in 1969, Aisin AW is a world-renowned professional R&D and manufacturer of automotive automatic transmissions. In the field of automotive automatic transmissions, Aisin AW's product market share ranks among the top in the world. Aisin is an automotive parts manufacturer that mainly engages in the development, production and sales of products in the fields of automotive bodies, drives, brakes, mechanisms, electronics, etc. It also involves furniture and living areas such as sewing machines and warm water toilets.
Kessler Transmission Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
Kessler Transmission Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
Address: Building 1, No. 850, Xuanxia Road, Xuanqiao Town, Pudong New District, Shanghai
Company Overview
Kessler+Co is a leading manufacturer of heavy-duty construction machinery transmission components in the industry. We develop and produce planetary reduction drive axles, gearboxes, wheel-side reducers, and electric drive transmission systems, etc. The application areas include construction machinery , truck cranes, material handling equipment and underground mining vehicles. Kessler + Co has a 130,000 square meter production plant. Based on modular design concepts and highly flexible production lines, Kessler + Co is committed to providing complete technical solutions for global customers. The culture is based on trust, personal responsibility and self-motivation, and promotes a reliable and responsive image in the minds of employees, customers and suppliers. In addition, Kessler + Co's organizational structure is very lean to ensure that all Communication can be done in a very direct manner.
ZF (China) Investment Co., Ltd.
ZF (China) Investment Co., Ltd.
Address: No. 889, Jiujing Road, Jiuting Town, Songjiang District, Shanghai
Company Overview
ZF is a globally active technology group. The company provides highly developed products and systems for mobility of passenger cars, commercial vehicles and industrial technology. With a comprehensive product range, ZF mainly serves automobile manufacturers, transportation suppliers and emerging companies in the field of transportation and traffic. ZF can provide electric drive solutions for various models. With its product portfolio, ZF has always been committed to promoting energy conservation and emission reduction, environmental protection and travel safety. In addition to the passenger car and commercial vehicle fields, ZF also serves the construction and agricultural machinery, wind power generation, transportation, railway technology and test systems. Since entering China in 1981, ZF has achieved steady and substantial development in China. At present, ZF Group has set up its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Shanghai and has two R&D centers. ZF has 4 R&D centers, nearly 40 manufacturing plants, 3 after-sales companies, and nearly 240 after-sales service outlets in about 24 major Chinese cities, including Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Chongqing, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Nanjing, Changchun, Shenyang, Chengdu, Xi'an, and Wuhan, and has introduced all of ZF's global advanced technologies to China.
Hangzhou Advance Gearbox Group Co., Ltd.
Hangzhou Advance Gearbox Group Co., Ltd.
Address: No. 45, Xiaojin Road, Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province
Company Overview
Hangzhou Qianjin Gearbox Group Co., Ltd. is a large-scale key enterprise specializing in the design and manufacture of gear transmission devices and powder metallurgy products in my country, and a national high-tech enterprise. The company was formerly known as Hangzhou Gearbox Factory, which was founded in 1960. In 2001, it was approved by the state to implement the "debt-to-equity" reform and became a state-owned diversified investment limited liability company. In 2008, it completed the shareholding system reform and officially changed to Hangzhou Qianjin Gearbox Group Co., Ltd., and was listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in October 2010. The company is located on the south bank of Qiantang River in Hangzhou, covering an area of 568,000 square meters. It currently has nearly 1,700 employees, 11 wholly-owned subsidiaries, 7 holding subsidiaries, and 3 shareholding companies. The company has a national-level technical center, and the "Key Technology and Industrialization of High-end Heavy-duty Gear Transmission Devices" and "Key Technology Research and Application of High-power Marine Gearbox Transmission and Propulsion System" projects have successively won the "Second Prize of National Science and Technology Progress". Based on the main business of transmission devices, the company relies on scientific and technological progress to enhance the core competitiveness of the enterprise and establish an important position in the industry. Since the 1980s, the company has introduced foreign advanced technology on the basis of independent development and achieved secondary innovation. The product field has expanded from a single marine gearbox to ship propulsion systems, engineering machinery transmissions, wind power generation and other new energy gearboxes, agricultural machinery transmissions, powder metallurgy products, automotive transmissions, rail transit transmissions, special products, industrial gearboxes, large high-precision parts and other ten categories with more than 1,000 varieties. The company insists on implementing the brand development strategy, through continuous and high-starting point technological transformation, introducing international high-precision equipment, establishing a complete quality management system and marketing service network, and wholeheartedly providing users with high-quality products and satisfactory services. "Qianjin" brand products are sold in 31 provinces, cities and autonomous regions in China, and exported to 58 countries and regions in the world.
Rekoda Enterprise Management (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
Rekoda Enterprise Management (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
Address: Room 1202-1205, Building A, Mango Plaza, No. 7 Longai Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai
Company Overview
Regal Rexnord is a North American manufacturer of metal cutting tools and gearboxes founded more than half a century ago. In 1955, it was known as Beloit Tools and set up shop in a skating rink in Beloit. Since 1955, the company has been headquartered in After several relocations, the company was renamed several times. Headquartered in Beloit, Wisconsin, the company was renamed "Regal Rexnord Corporation" and its Chinese name was Regal Rexnord Electric Group. Ltd. is a subsidiary of Regal Rexnord Electric Group and is the Asia Pacific headquarters of Regal Rexnord Electric Group. It was established in Shanghai in 2009. This move is also aimed at better serving the Chinese customer base and providing more convenient and excellent overall power solutions. At present, the whole China region has 12 manufacturing bases, with nearly 3,200 employees, and its products cover various types of high-efficiency motors, fans, compressor sealed motors, high-speed and special industrial motors, generators, power transmission, and after-market services. And IoT overall solutions.
Zhuzhou Gear Co., Ltd.
Zhuzhou Gear Co., Ltd.
Address: No. 10 Mingri Road, Tianyuan District, Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province
Company Overview
Zhuzhou Gear Co., Ltd. was founded in 1958. It is a key high-tech enterprise of the National Torch Program, a national-level specialized "little giant" enterprise, a key backbone enterprise in the gear transmission industry, and an industry standard drafting unit. The company has long been committed to the power transmission system assembly business, and has established a national-level enterprise technology center, a postdoctoral research workstation and a provincial-level engineering technology research center. It has passed ISO9001, IATF16949 and other system certifications. With strong R&D capabilities and excellent product quality, it has won the trust of major vehicle and machine companies and high recognition from all walks of life. It has undertaken or participated in more than 10 provincial and ministerial-level scientific and technological projects such as the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the National Development and Reform Commission. The company deepens the construction of informatization and automation, strengthens intelligent manufacturing capabilities, and takes the construction of the National Industrial Internet Innovation and Development Project as an opportunity to build an industrial Internet platform for the entire life cycle of high-performance gear transmission systems on behalf of the gear transmission industry, accelerating the digital transformation of enterprises while empowering the entire industry. Zhuchi realizes dreams, and transmission leads the future! Zhuchi people work hard, innovate and strive to build a world-class professional supplier of power transmission system assemblies, and work hand in hand with our partners to move towards the world!
SIBAO Transmission Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
SIBAO Transmission Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
Address: Building 9-1, No. 128, Dieqiao Road, Jushuo Industrial Park, Kangqiao Town, Pudong New Area, Shanghai
Company Overview
The German company STIEBEL is located in Vadbur, Germany. It was founded in 1946 and has a production history of more than 60 years. The company has a cutting-edge technical team, advanced production technology and sophisticated production equipment. It is the pioneer and developer of transfer case technology in the world. Now, STIEBEL's business covers two major areas: hydraulic travel transmission and bulk material conveying transmission. Its products are widely used in various engineering machinery such as concrete pump trucks, pavers, milling machines, beam transporters, exploration vehicles, railway maintenance equipment, and belt conveyors. STIEBEL Transmission Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. was established on January 1, 2006. As a subsidiary of STIEBEL in China, STIEBEL Transmission is committed to providing users with complete transmission solutions and timely after-sales services.
Luoyang Resstar Transmission Co., Ltd.
Luoyang Resstar Transmission Co., Ltd.
Address: No. 997 Guanlin Road, Luolong District, Luoyang City, Henan Province
Company website: http://www.reastar.com/
Company Overview
Luoyang Resda Transmission Co., Ltd. was established in 2008 and is located in Luolong High-tech Zone, Luoyang City. With a total investment of 100 million yuan, it is a high-tech enterprise focusing on the design, research and development, production, sales and service of hydraulic and transmission products such as transfer cases, transfer cases, special gearboxes, power heads, hydraulic turntables, hydraulic actuators, etc. Its products cover many fields such as military equipment, oil drilling, engineering machinery, shipbuilding, and agricultural machinery. China's transmission field lacks core technology and independent brands. Resda firmly believes that only innovation can lead the future. At the beginning of its establishment, it built a factory model with a high starting point, drawing on the innovative ideas of the United States and the lean production model of Japan, combined with China's traditional people-oriented concept, and established a corporate culture, R&D concept and management model with Resda's characteristics. After years of technical research, it has broken through the core technology in the transmission field, breaking the traditional way of "reverse design", and truly realizing independent research and development. Up to now, the company has completed the research and development and sales of more than 50 products in 6 series. Among them, the NT automatic transmission is a special transmission tailored for mud pumps; HR series hydraulic turntables, high-pressure rotary seats, DC series hydraulic actuators and other hydraulic special products are core components in the field of national major equipment. The company has obtained 9 invention patents, 21 utility model patents, 5 software copyrights, and another 1 invention patent is being applied for. The company has reached a good cooperative relationship with more than 100 large, medium and small enterprises such as Sany Group, Jerry Group, Sinopec Fourth Machine Oil, Caterpillar, Epiroc, Lovol Heavy Industry, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Boshiran Group, Xinyan Co., Ltd., and World Group; at the same time, the products are also exported to more than 10 countries and regions in Europe, North America, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Latin America, etc. The company firmly believes that as Resda continues to grow, it will provide customers with excellent products, considerate services and cutting-edge and reliable technical solutions.

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What is Transfer Case

A transfer case is a vital component in vehicles with four-wheel drive (4WD) or all-wheel drive (AWD) systems. It is typically positioned between the transmission and the front and rear axles. Its primary role is to distribute the engine's power to the front and rear wheels, enabling the vehicle to traverse various terrains and driving conditions.


History of Transfer Case

The transfer case has a rich history that dates back to the early days of off-road and military vehicle development. It was initially designed to provide vehicles with the ability to operate in challenging terrains during wartime. Over time, as the demand for off-road capabilities in civilian vehicles grew, the transfer case became a standard feature in many SUVs and pickup trucks. Technological advancements have led to the development of more sophisticated transfer cases with improved efficiency and reliability.


Purpose of Transfer Case

The main purpose of a transfer case is to:

  • Enable the vehicle to switch between different drive modes, such as two-wheel drive (2WD), four-wheel drive high range (4H), and four-wheel drive low range (4L).
  • Distribute power evenly or variably between the front and rear axles, depending on the driving conditions.
  • Provide additional torque multiplication in low range for enhanced off-road performance.

Principle of Transfer Case

A transfer case operates based on a set of gears and shafts. It receives power from the transmission and then redirects it to the front and rear axles. In 2WD mode, the transfer case disengages the front axle, allowing only the rear axle to receive power. In 4WD mode, it engages both the front and rear axles, providing power to all four wheels. The low range in the transfer case is achieved by using a set of reduction gears that increase the torque output to the wheels at the expense of speed.


Features of Transfer Case

Durability: Built to withstand high torque and stress, transfer cases are designed to endure the rigors of off-road driving and heavy-duty applications.

Versatility: They offer multiple drive modes, allowing drivers to select the most suitable mode for different road and terrain conditions.

Sealing: A good transfer case has excellent sealing to prevent oil leakage and keep contaminants out, ensuring smooth and reliable operation.


Types of Transfer Case

Part-time 4WD Transfer Case: This type allows the driver to manually switch between 2WD and 4WD modes. It is commonly found in vehicles that are primarily used on paved roads but may require off-road capabilities occasionally.

Full-time 4WD Transfer Case: In full-time 4WD systems, the vehicle is always in 4WD mode, providing constant power to all four wheels. This type offers better traction and stability in various driving conditions and is often used in high-performance SUVs and off-road vehicles.

AWD Transfer Case: All-wheel drive transfer cases continuously distribute power to all four wheels, adjusting the power distribution based on factors such as wheel speed, traction, and driving conditions. They are commonly used in passenger cars and crossovers to improve handling and safety.


Precautions for using Transfer Case

Regular Maintenance: It is essential to follow the manufacturer's recommended maintenance schedule for the transfer case. This includes checking the oil level and quality regularly and replacing the oil as specified.

Proper Driving Mode Selection: Choose the appropriate drive mode based on the road and terrain conditions. Using the wrong mode can cause excessive wear on the transfer case and other drivetrain components.

Avoid Overloading: Do not exceed the vehicle's rated load capacity, as overloading can put additional stress on the transfer case and reduce its lifespan.


Things to consider when purchasing Transfer Case

Vehicle Compatibility: Ensure that the transfer case is compatible with your vehicle's make, model, and transmission type. Check the vehicle's specifications and consult with a professional if necessary.

Quality and Brand: Choose a transfer case from a reputable brand known for its quality and reliability. Read reviews and consider the brand's reputation in the market.

Function and Performance: Consider your driving needs and choose a transfer case that offers the appropriate drive modes and torque output. If you do a lot of off-road driving, a transfer case with a low range and high torque capacity may be more suitable.


Terms of Transfer Case

Gear Ratio: The ratio of the number of teeth on different gears in the transfer case, which determines the speed and torque output to the wheels.

Low Range:[!--empirenews.page--] A mode in the transfer case that provides a higher torque output for off-road driving and steep inclines.

Chain Drive or Gear Drive: The method used to transfer power within the transfer case. Chain drives are often quieter and more efficient, while gear drives are more durable and can handle higher torque.