The Buckeye Bullet

At the Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats each year hundreds of vehicles of every description thunder across the vast plain in an effort to set a land speed record. In October 2004 one of those vehicles was the Buckeye Bullet, an electric streamliner created by a team of students from Ohio State University. The Bonneville Salt Flats is a white salt plain spread across 12,000 hectares in Utah, 145 kilometres from...
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Rannveig Rist

Iceland's first lady of aluminiumEven though Rannveig Rist is the only woman to occupy the top post in a large...

Economos turns SKF

The industrial seals manufacturer Economos, which was acquired by SKF in 2006, will be integrated into the SKF brand in...

Warning: counterfeits!

To raise awareness about counterfeiting, the World Bearing Association (WBA) has launched a campaign to spread the word about potential...

The beginning of the future

It seems a long time since the turn of the millennium, with all its apprehension about failing computer systems and...

A bridge to the next century

A new bascule bridge, spanning the Hai He River in China, is the largest of its kind in Asia.As long...

Supply contract with Pakistan Railways

SKF has been awarded a suspension unit supply contract from Pakistan Railways. The value of the contract is estimated at...

$ 2 bln

SKF has documented more than 2 billion US dollars saved by its customers as a result of using SKF solutions....

SKF is expanding its operations with the following new factories:

1. A seal factory in Mysore, India, which will serve customers within the automotive, railway and industrial application segments. 2. A...

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Long-term contract with Valeo

  A three-year contract has been signed between SKF and automotive supplier Valeo to supply SKF Rotor Positioning Bearings for the...