Fenner has acquired the U.S.-based National Bearings Company. Based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, National Bearings Company manufactures custom polymer and metal bearings that are tooled and easily adapted to suit a variety of applications. Fenner manufactures industrial belts and rubber hoses and the acquisition will be undert
Pastor Helmut Hetzel is happy about the donation for the Herzogenaurach children's and family fund. The proceeds from the advent concert of the Schaeffler Bigband were handed over by Jutta Rost, Head of Human Resources, Bernhard Schwab, Bigband, and Holger Bock, Head of the Schaeffler Bigband (from left). Revenue from concert of the …
Customers and partners of Big Kaiser Precision Tooling teamed up to generate a $7,283 donation to benefit the National Robotics League (NRL). The amount is nearly 10 percent more than last year and the fourth year-over-year increase in NRL funding from Big Kaiser. The donation is a 2% match of all qual
X-ray diffraction has become a popular means of residual stress measurement in the aerospace materials field over the last 50 years. A proposed new guide being developed by ASTM International Committee E28 on Mechanical Testing will provide the necessary information to obtain the most reliable residual stress values as well as identify and eval…
AD’s e-commerce solutions team welcomed over 350 attendees across eight divisions and two countries to its fourth e-commerce summit, at the Trump National Doral in Miami, Florida. AD, the member-owned construction and industrial products wholesale buying and marketing group, launched the eCommerce Solutions
Upgraded SKF Explorer spherical roller bearings for vibratory applications have been newly engineered to provide ideal performance and longer service life compared with conventional types. Typical applications include vibrating screens, compactors, road rollers, and similar end-uses operating with high vibration and exp
A function in KISSsoft Release 03/2017enables you to evaluate the reliability of gear units, individual gears and rolling bearings. For gears, the reliability is evaluated for tooth root fracture and pitting, whereas for rolling bearings, the reliability is determined using the service life method specified i
Pacamor Kubar Bearings (PKB), was honored by the Defense Supply Center Richmond as one of the government's best suppliers at an Automated Best Value System award ceremony held during the center's annual business conference in June. PKB accepted the bronze metal from the commander of the supply center, Navy Rear Adm. Mark Heinrich. The…
Pacamor Kubar Bearings was awarded the Technical Standard Order TSO-C149 Aircraft Bearings Certification from the Federal Aviation Administration for its miniature and instrument ball bearing product line. According to the company's press release, the certificate comes after a year of intensive development, engineering…
SKF’s automotive bearing factory in Tudela, Spain joins industrial bearing factory in Steyr, Austria as the Group’s first carbon neutral manufacturing sites. SKF’s automotive bearing factory in Tudela, Spain, has become the Group’s second manufacturing site to achieve carbon neutral status. Toget
Brother Gearmotors, a division of Brother International Corporation that offers a wide range of ultra-reliable, sub-fractional AC gearmotors and reducers for the food & beverage, packaging and material handling industries, will use MODEX 2020 as an opportunity to showcase its lightweight, compact, and highly-efficient gea
Combined bearings provide a cost-effective guide solution to lifting systems, platforms and cantilever loads. The system combines a radial bearing to take out high moment loads and a smaller axial roller to eliminate side movement. They are often used to guide screw jack lifting and sliding systems by isolating the screw jack
The Timken Company (NYSE: TKR; www.timken.com), a world leader in engineered bearings and power transmission products, announced it will participate in the Evercore ISI Annual Industrial Conference on March 3, 2020 in New York City. Participating on behalf of Timken will be Philip D. Fracassa, executi
NSK Ltd. (NSK; Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan; President & CEO: Toshihiro Uchiyama) today announced its endorsement of the recommendations in the final report of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures*1 (TCFD). NSK includes global environmental protection as part of its mission statemen
Dassault Systèmes and Xometry recently announced their partnership to provide customers with a seamless, integrated way to produce parts that accelerates the concept to manufacturing process. Engineers using Dassault Systèmes’ Solidworks and Catia applications will have automatic and immediate access to Xometry price quotes o
Recently, the Swedish rolling bearing manufacturer SKF and the Swiss gearbox design software developer KISSsoft have joined forces: The KISSsoft Release 2019offers the possibility to calculate bearing performance by SKF through a cloud calculation service (Module WPK and WB1). Bearing rating
CB-14 Series conveyor bearings from Kilian Manufacturing are specifically designed to operate quietly and dependably in the most demanding material handling applications. The unique, cost-effective CB-14 bearing design combines two major features that act together to reduce the metal-to-metal contact that is a common so
