A Canadian technology company with a novel continuously variable transmission has secured business from a North American manufacturer of feed mixers and a leading OEM supplier in South Korea.

CVTCorp. makes a toroidal transmission that transmits drive through rollers acting on the concave face of steel discs. The rollers rotate the discs via friction fluid rather than metal-to-metal contact and infinitely variable speed adjustment is achieved by angling the rollers.

Among the first applications for…