Industry News

09/06/2022

Revolutionary Bearing Housing Sealing Solution for the Mining Industry

For several decades, conveyor pulley bearing housings were protected from the environment with labyrinth type sealing methods. While there have been iterations over years, they fundamentally adopt a ‘grease filled torturous path’ approach to …

09/06/2022

NSK Life-Lube® bearings drive cost-saving improvements in food plants

NSK’s Life-Lube® bearing units are proving increasingly popular in the food and beverage industry, with good reason. These advanced bearings combine corrosion-resistant properties of Silver-Lube® housings excellent sealing lubricating Molded-Oil …

24/10/2019

Orbital chooses SKF technology for world’s most powerful tidal turbine

     Two 1MW turbines with a total rotor area of 600m2 will be able to power more than 1,700 homes per year   SKF has developed train for the world’s most powerful tidal turbine, capable generating 2MW, being by Scotland-based Orbital …

24/10/2019

Timken to Participate in The Baird Global Industrial Conference

   The Timken Company (NYSE: TKR; www.timken.com), a world leader in engineered bearings and power transmission products, announced it will participate the Baird Global Industrial Conference on Nov. 6, …

24/10/2019

High-performance plastics for bearings produced on the spot

   The playful metal dinosaur “Rusty” was on display at the igus booth Hannover Messe 2017 in Germany, where produced new tribo injection-moulded parts using printed tools within a mere eight hours. Best known for its energy chain systems and …

24/10/2019

Rolling Bearing Service Life Based on Probable Cause for Removal

    A bearing service life prediction methodology and tutorial indexed to eight probable causes for failure removal are presented - including fatigue. Bearing is probabilistic not deterministic. manufacturers' catalogue (L10) …