Industry

Remote monitoring of wind turbines

Around the world demand for condition monitoring and service from the wind power industry is growing. SKF’s intelligence center for wind turbine [...]
Industry

Bearings for 500 Chinese locomotives

  SKF has gained an order worth $19 million euros from CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co. Ltd., ZELC, to equip 500 mainline electric locomotives for [...]
Axleboxes,Bearing units,Transportation & logistics,
Industry

SKF awarded contracts by Fuwa

  Following a competition involving both international and domestic Chinese suppliers, Guangdong Fuwa Engineering Manufacturing Co. Ltd. has awarded [...]
Seals,Tapered roller bearings,
Industry

The big bend

Swiss company Haeusler AG sets the global standard for metal-bending machinery. The forces in these huge machines require bearings that can really [...]
Metal industry,Reliability,Spherical roller bearings,
Industry

Mining the extreme north

At 78 degrees latitude, Svea is the world’s northernmost underground coalmine and the only one in the Nordic region. Located 1,000 kilometres from [...]
Condition monitoring,Mining, extraction of oil and gas,Reliability,
Industry

Big wheels in the water

The Lux-Werft shipyard in Mondorf, on the River Rhine, north of Bonn in Germany, has been building pleasure boats since just after World War II. But [...]
Design,Lubricants,Seals,Transportation & logistics,
Industry

Pumping powerhouses

GEHO slurry pumps from Weir Minerals Netherlands are put to the test in some of the most extreme environments the world has to offer. And they are [...]
Design,Mining, extraction of oil and gas,