It is with great sadness that Forest City Gear announces the death of Wendy Young, President & CEO. Wendy passed away on Tuesday, February 22nd, peacefully, with her family at her side, after a tenacious battle with cancer.

Forest City Gear, an industry-leading manufacturer of fine and medium pitch custom gears, is proud to congratulate Wendy Young, President & CEO, for being named the 2021 Individual Business Catalyst of the Year by the Rockford Chamber of Commerce.

Forest City Gear, an industry-leading manufacturer of fine and medium pitch custom gears, is proud to congratulate Kika Young for receiving the Outstanding Young Alumni Award from Rockford University for 2021.

We will be exhibiting at the Motion + Power Technology Expo September 14 – 16, 2021 in St. Louis, Missouri.

Forest City Gear, an industry-leading manufacturer of fine and medium pitch custom gears, is proud to recognize several employees for their long-term dedication to the company, including Jeff Mains (10 years), Ingrid West (10 years) and Kent Blatchford (20 years).

Forest City Gear is proud to celebrate Matt Brick’s 15-year anniversary with the company.

Each year, the Stateline Chamber accepts nominations via its website. An awards committee reviews the nominations, narrows the field to three finalists in each category, and selects one winner per category based on the nominees’ contributions to excellence in the community within their respective categories.

Forest City Gear is proud to have supplied over 100 gears for NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover. Forest City Gear manufactured gears for every actuator on the vehicle, from the wheel drive systems to the focusing the optics. All of the gear-driven motion systems that the rover utilizes to move or to articulate a part of its scientific instruments, including the Sky Crane that worked to lower Perseverance to the surface, are driven by gears from Forest City Gear.