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Drive Success with NSK Spherical Roller Bearings



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Facing extreme challenges in your industry? From the heavy and impact loads in steelmaking, mining, and construction, to the extreme speeds and high heat in papermaking, with the critical need for reliability to prevent unexpected machine and equipment downtime, standard spherical roller bearings often fall short.

Issues include:

  • Cracked inner rings in high heat
  • Damaged raceways in contaminated environments
  • Premature damage in applications exposed to high vibrations

These issues indicate significant potential for improvement in your operations. NSK solutions are designed to tackle these demanding applications, enhancing your bottom line by extending the service life of your machinery increasing the quality of your product and reducing unexpected downtime. This leads to lower warranty costs for the machine manufacturer and reduced maintenance costs and minimized production losses for the enduser.




NSK’s long-life VE series spherical roller bearings

Built to Outperform and Outlast

NSKHPS Spherical Roller Bearings are the synthesis of NSK technologies, with material engineering, tribology, mechanical design and advanced manufacturing engaged and applied. The outcome is a spherical roller bearing engineered to significantly outperform and outlast conventional designs, meeting industry’s ever-increasing challenges with significant and proven advantages: 

  • Dramatically longer and reliable operating life
  • Higher dynamic load-carrying capacity
  • Higher limiting speeds

Contact NSK Experts to learn how NSKHPS Spherical Roller Bearings can elevate your operations with their superior performance and durability."



A New Standard for Wind Turbine Main Shafts



With a newly optimized guide ring-free brass cage design that packs in larger rollers - and more of them - NSK’s extra-capacity ECA spherical roller bearings take our NSKHPS series to an unprecedented level of capacity, speed and high-performance reliability across all applications.

NSK engineers are a click away from showing you how ECA series spherical roller bearings elevate capacity, speed, and performance reliability.

NSK’s new extra-capacity ECA Spherical Roller Bearings




NSK’s long-life VE series spherical roller bearings

Unshakable Performance in Vibrating Screens

Punishing loads. Radial acceleration. Misalignment. Mechanical shock. Relentless vibration. For this perfect storm of operating challenges, NSK’s long-life VE series spherical roller bearings deliver robust and reliable performance derived from an optimized internal design with tightly-controlled clearances and dimensional tolerances.

Reach out to us to explore the capabilities of the VE series spherical roller bearings.



A Sealed-Clean Solution for Mining Conveyors


Durability and reliability are paramount for bearings operating in contaminant-laden and remote conveyor applications, where the failure of a single component can impact the entire operation. Combining our long-life Hi-TF material with an easy-to-install removable seal, NSK has delivered an advanced contaminant- and wear-resistant solution for conveyor pulleys.

NSK experts can demonstrate how our long-life Hi-TF bearings offer robust solutions for rugged applications.

long-life Hi-TF spherical roller bearing with removable seals




TL series spherical roller bearings

Beating The Heat in Paper Machine Dryer Cylinders

NSK TL (Tough & Long Life) spherical roller bearings deliver high strength resistance to hoop stress and inner ring cracking that frequently occurs as a result of rapid temperature rise in paper machine dryer cylinders. Through advanced material and heat treatment technologies, bearing failure incidents, machine downtime and maintenance costs are significantly reduced.

Learn how NSK TL spherical roller bearings effectively reduce failures, downtime, and maintenance costs.



Super Wear-Resistance in Continuous Casting Plants


Heavy loads at ultra-low speeds. Debris and water contamination. Roll bending stress. All of the ingredients for a short bearing life. With extreme durability and core toughness, NSK SWR™ (Super Wear Resistant) spherical roller bearings are engineered to deliver superior resistance to wear and the onset of progressive bearing damage in the continuous casting machines of steel mills. 

Contact NSK to learn how SWR™ bearings enhance durability in steel mill casting machines.:

SWR™ series spherical roller bearing




TL series spherical roller bearings

Strategic Supply Solutions

NSK offers comprehensive support to our partners through our global technology network and 66 production sites strategically positioned worldwide. As part of this commitment, customers and end users across the Americas benefit from our ability to provide deep groove ball bearings, from our Clarinda, Iowa, and Suzano, Brazil plants.

This offers substantial opportunities for both new and existing NSK customers to take advantage of, including:

  • Safeguard Against Trade Adjustments: Protect your business from potential changes to import fees with locally supplied products.
  • Limit External Influences: Reduce exposure to global uncertainties and external negative influences.
  • Supply Chain Resilience: Overcome supply chain challenges such as port strikes, increased shipping costs, and geopolitical instability.
  • Local Engineering Support: Gain direct access to local engineering expertise, enhancing your maintenance and design processes.



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