Best heavy engineering industries supplies gears in nylon. These gears are provided in one piece ring of 3,000 mm in diameter to major paper mills. To increase linear speed of paper production, nylon gears have proven. A plastic filled paper machine dryer gear is a redesign of original cast iron gear in which teeth were either cast or machined and in the early days failures occurred primarily due to extreme tooth loading during power start [acceleration] and rapid stop [deceleration] of the machine.