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Digging into the Workboat Sector

Generally stated, the current marine market perception is that ZF is well known for fast craft and yacht transmis- sions. Körner said that ZF today has only a small share in the workboat transmis- sion sector, meaning that it has plenty of room to grow. It recently introduced the “Tough Gear” brand name, which is simply the surface manifestation of its drive to further penetrate the global workboat markets. But the Tough Gear name is much more than skin deep. ZF’s drive into the workboat sector is backed by ? nance, focus, leadership will and en- gineering ? repower to drive this growth.

The latest member of the Tough Gear brand was unveiled at SMM when ZF introduced the new workboat transmis- sion family – ZF W 10000. The new

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The new ZF W10000 transmission, a new genera- tion transmission for the Offshore and Tugboat markets, available with ratios from 2.0 to 7.9:1.

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