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Contract with Finnish wind turbine manufacturer

  SKF has signed a contract worth 20 million euros with WinWinD, a Finnish manufacturer of wind turbines. SKF will supply the main bearings for [...]
Condition monitoring,Energy and sustainability management,Wind,
Engineering Competence

Lubrication and contamination effects on bearing life, part 2

Bearing life is influenced by many factors. Two of the most important are lubrication and contamination. Through a better understanding of the [...]
Bearing life,Lubrication Solutions,Maintenance,
Engineering Competence

SKF Explorer and SKF Energy Efficient bearings provide sustainable solutions

Reduce costs; improve machine performance; save our natural resources. It’s a tall order, but SKF has risen to the challenge with two [...]
Bearings,Lubrication Solutions,Sustainability,
Industry

Streamlining logistics

By partially outsourcing its logistics operations to a central warehouse in Belgium, Finland-based Metso Mining and Construction Technology [...]
Logistics,
Engineering Competence

SKF supplies bearings to Zytek’s hybrid-electric racing car

  Zytek Engineering has chosen SKF to supply customized and standard deep groove ball bearings for the electric motor generator unit and the [...]
Cars,Electrical,Engineering consultancy,Racing,
Engineering Competence

Racing with the sun

A lens invented in 1822 helped propel a Dutch solar-powered car across the Australian outback in the World Solar Challenge held in October 2009. The [...]
Bearings,Energy and sustainability management,Racing,
Industry

Big wheels keep on turning

When you describe the Chuquicamata copper mine in northern Chile, you have to dig deep into your thesaurus for synonyms for the word “big”. [...]
Bearings,Condition monitoring,Lubrication Services,Lubrication Solutions,Mining and mineral processing,Reliability,Seals,

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