In mid 2007, SKF Germany delivered its 1millionth truck hub unit to MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG. To mark the occasion, and celebrate many years of trusting and extremely positive business relations, a token of thanks – a gold-plated version of the hub unit – was offered to the truck manufacturer.

Karl-Viktor Schaller, board member Technol-ogy and Purchasing of MAN Nutzfahrzeuge, praised the quality, performance capacity and delivery service. “SKF is justified in claiming that this is a quantum leap in wheel bearing technology – not only as far as the number of truck hub units delivered to MAN is concerned. In the meantime, tens of thousands of these bearings have clocked up one million kilometres and more in our vehicles. And they’re still running as reliably as they were on the day they were fitted.”

MAN Nutzfahrzeuge was the first customer in Germany to switch over to the then newly developed SKF truck hub units. Since July 1998, the company has fitted the front axles of large trucks exclusively with these units and, because of the good results, it decided to use the new unit also for the front axles for loads from 3.4 to 6 tonnes a couple of years later.

Today SKF is the sole supplier of hub units for MAN front axles.