Howdon Power Transmission have been involved in the design and manufacture of Torque Limiters for over thirty years. Overload clutches and Torque Sensors are often expensive and complicated to use, so to answer the demand for simple solutions for torque overload Howdon invented the revolutionary Wedgegard Shearpin Torque Limiter.

A comprehensive range of overload clutches has been produced using the Wedgegard Shearpin Torque Limiter, and are successfully employed worldwide protecting conveyor drives, sewage and process pumps, road tanker PTO drives, steel and paper mills, marine propulsion, to name a few.