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Joint venture for steel balls

The SKF Group is investigating the feasibility of a joint venture with the U.S. chrome steel ball manufacturer NN Ball & Roller Inc., and the [...]
Industry,
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Eye on the new millennium

Do you believe that the arrival of the third millennium – as counted by the Gregorian calendar – is cause for a big celebration? Whether or [...]
Industry,
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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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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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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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Take care of your crusher

It takes rugged equipment to crush mountains of rocks down to small sizes. It also takes a smoothly operating service organisation.Since the dawn of [...]
Cylindrical roller bearings,Design,Mining, extraction of oil and gas,Reliability,Training,
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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,