SKF will be the main supplier of bearings to Metso Paper, which is supplying Stora Enso’s Langerbrugge mill in Belgium with the world’s largest paper machine.
   This machine will have a wire width of more than 36 feet and will produce about 440,000 tonnes of newsprint a year. In the Metso paper machine there are some 10,000 SKF items, including bearings, sleeves, lock nuts, washers and bearing housings. The largest bearing – a spherical roller bearing – has an outer diameter of 51 inches and weighs 2,650 pounds.