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Engineering Competence

Ceramics stand up to harsh realities

Ceramic materials offer the ability to solve bearing-related problems previously insoluble using conventional materials.Ceramic materials are hard [...]
Hybrid bearings,Research and theory,
Engineering Competence

Slewing bearings break new ground

  Recent developments at SKF have been able to increase slewing bearing life by around 400% using software-based analysis.By their very nature, [...]
Other industry,Simulation and software,
Engineering Competence

Keep the presses rolling

The technical requirements on bearings in modern printing presses are very demanding, particularly for printing cylinders.Main cylinders or printing [...]
Cylindrical roller bearings,Other industry,Spherical roller bearings,Tapered roller bearings,
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Service with a future

A long-term maintenance contract between a South African and a German company pushes the boundaries of out-sourcing arrangements. It’s a leap of [...]
Cylindrical roller bearings,Electricity, gas and water supply,Mining, extraction of oil and gas,Spherical roller bearings,
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Shear mining power

A newly developed longwall shearer with increased supply voltage gives Polish coal mines a productivity boost. A group of Polish designers and [...]
Design,Mining, extraction of oil and gas,Toroidal roller bearings,
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A smooth break-up

Like a common pepper mill, rock crushers grind and wedge their way to pebbles the size of sugar cubes. For Finland’s Nordberg-Lokomo, this daunting [...]
Mining, extraction of oil and gas,Spherical roller bearings,
News

Koç keeps Turkey rolling

Road transport has a long history in Turkey. From the first century to the 14th, roads in this region formed the western leg of the important Silk [...]
Cars,Transportation & logistics,

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