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Plenty of power in stainless steel ingredient

Making ferrosilicon for steel alloys is a hot and heavy business. Norwegian smelter Elkem Salten uses both hearsay and advanced sensor systems to [...]
Bearing housings,Chemicals, fuel and petroleum products,Metal industry,Seals,Spherical roller bearings,Toroidal roller bearings,
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After the storm

When a devastating hurricane hit Chevron’s oil refinery in the southern U.S. in 1998, it left seaweed on two-metre-high fences and a mark on the [...]
Chemicals, fuel and petroleum products,Reliability,Training,
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Maintenance works itself out of a job

Scheduled machinery overhauls and quick responses to breakdowns are no longer enough. Now service organisations must attack the root of the [...]
Condition monitoring,Reliability,
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Service is our business

This issue of Evolution is dedicated to the service business, one of the cornerstones of SKF. There are many ways to describe what constitutes good [...]
Industry,
Engineering Competence

Bearings for vibrating machinery

Vibrating machines represent some of the most challenging applications for bearings. Spherical roller bearings for vibrating applications offer [...]
Other industry,Spherical roller bearings,
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Get off the road

It’s time to make more room for the Jeep, a car that is becoming a way of life for an increasing number of drivers around the world. Of course, [...]
Cars,Other industry,Seals,Transportation & logistics,
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Bearing unit for gearboxes

SKF has developed a bearing carrier unit for main and layshaft bearings in gearboxes. The unit decouples the bearing from the housing, thus giving a [...]
Industry,

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