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A clean-cut household icon

Kobold vacuum cleaners are sold exclusively door-to-door. That’s one reason why manufacturer Vorwerk strives to combine high power and low weight.The [...]
Bearings,Design,Home appliances,
Engineering Competence

Technology around us

Give customers what they want
Design,Motorbikes,
Engineering Competence

New train concept

SKF has won a large railway contract for its new generation of axlebox bearing units from Siemens. The lightweight and compact bearings will be [...]
Bearings,Railways,Reliability,Remanufacturing,
Industry

Italian spindle acquisition

In April, SKF acquired Italy’s Gamfior, which manufactures high speed motorised spindles and precision ball screws. Adding Gamfior to earlier [...]
Reliability,Remanufacturing,Spindles,
Engineering Competence

Spindle system

Russell T. Gilman Inc, an SKF company, launched a new Mech-TronixTM motorised spindle system in May. The Mech-Tronix spindle can be outfitted with [...]
Coupling systems,Research and development,
Engineering Competence

Novel application

SKF has developed a new wheel bearing arrangement for Michelin that allows air to be exchanged between a centralised compressor and a car’s four [...]
Bearings,Cars,Coupling systems,Hub units,Research and development,
Engineering Competence

SKF acquires Swedish service company

SKF has acquired Nåiden Teknik AB (NTAB), a leading mechanical condition-monitoring company in Sweden with an annual turnover of about 20 million [...]
Condition monitoring,Integrated maintenance solutions,Monitoring and diagnostics,

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