David Brown acquired Unigear—based in Montreal—in 2012. Today, DBS Canada provides key gearbox services and support across several industries including mining, oil and gas, cement, metals, power generation, rail and more with an emphasis on quality, reliability and longevity.

The acquisition of Unigear provided David Brown with wider access to many of these strategic industry segments coupled with local capability to manufacture and service industrial gear products for the North American market. Thanks to a combination of customer relationships, experience, skills and precision gear manufacturing equipment, DBS Canada offers localized service and support throughout the region.

The company’s global work in heavy mobile equipment—particularly in areas like Chile and Australia have been extremely valuable for DBS Canada.

“They have all the drawings; all the technical knowledge and engineering support we need to better assist our customers here in Canada,” Bednarchuk said. From Refurbish to Rebuild Being a gear manufacturer, DBS has gear grinders on-site. “As these projects come into the shop and we find superficial micropitting on the gear teeth, we can kiss grind the gears and renew the integrity of the components. This can save our customers a lot of money,” Bednarchuk said. “We invited the customer into the shop so they could better understand the repairs needed,” Bednarchuk said. “These gearboxes are known to be the weak link in the system because they work so hard in the application. Our focus on the project led to the customer sending us another high value gearbox for additional repair services.”