Ashot Ashkelon Industries

Ashot Ashkelon Industries is an Israeli manufacturer of precision aerospace and defense parts. It makes gears, transmissions and other systems for the international aerospace and defense industries.

The company is part of Elbit Systems, a defense technology group. It specializes in jet engine shafts, gears, transmissions, gearboxes, high lift systems components, landing gear components and tungsten products. It reports decades of experience and an in-house research and development team.

Ashot works as a turnkey provider. It is vertically integrated, so it can develop, make and assemble whole systems, subsystems and components in one place, to customer specifications. Its capabilities include production engineering, all types of machining, gear cutting and finishing, deep-hole drilling and boring, and heat treatment. It also offers non-destructive testing, surface finishing, and chemical, mechanical and metallurgical laboratories. All of this runs under strict in-house quality control.

The company serves two main arenas, aerospace and land. In both, it supports high-technology systems for defense and aviation customers.

Ashot says it keeps investing in its core technologies, its capabilities and its people. It puts an emphasis on concurrent engineering, where design and production work together. Its goals are to widen its product range, make production more efficient and add more value for customers.

The company owns a US subsidiary called Reliance Gear. Reliance Gear makes custom precision gears and assemblies for many industries, including defense, aerospace, agriculture, mining, marine, oil and gas, printing and construction. It is known for lapped and ground tooth bevel gears.

Services

• Gears
• Transmissions and gearboxes
• Jet engine shafts
• High lift system components
• Landing gear components
• Tungsten products
• Turnkey manufacturing
• Non-destructive testing
• Heat treatment
• Laboratory services