The metalworking sector is the fundamental link in the manufacturing chain, placed halfway between suppliers (steel and non-ferrous metals industries) and customers, representing a wide range of production sectors.
The performance levels required for bearings by machine tools and other precision applications are extremely high. Among their main requirements: the ability to withstand very high speeds, driving precision, excellent rotation capacity, good vibration behavior and minimal heat production.
These processes can be done on any type of material (titanium, steel, cast iron, aluminium, brass, copper, bronze) which is then used in a wide variety of sectors, such as medical, aeronautical, automotive and alternative energy.
The process of transforming metals into objects and components involves both cold working and hot working. The main hot works are:
- rolling
- forging
- fusion
- printing
- extrustion
- drawing (an operation that can be carried out on steel and aluminium sheets)
The metals obtained through forging and casting are then finished by special machine tools, such as:
- lathes: to work axial-symmetric objects
- boring machines: to finish the internal surface of hollow objects
- milling machines: to create grooves
- slotting machines: to create small grooves
- riveting machines: to obtain a smooth and flat surface
- planers: to obtain a large flat surface
The equipment for hot and cold metal processing makes extensive use of bearings, which have to provide extremely high performance in terms of flexibility, reliability, precision and rotation speed.
Our customers use:
- machines for processing and forming metals
- machines for welding, milling, cutting, turning and drilling metals
- machines for processing special steels
- sheet leveling and sheet straightening machines
- contrast rollers for leveling machines
- shears
- rolling mills
- rolling cylinders and trains
- conveyor systems
Our range of products in the Metalworking sector includes:
- Angular contact ball bearings
- Cylindrical roller bearings
- Spherical roller bearings
- Super precision spindle bearings
- Cast iron bearing housings
- Stainless steel bearing housings
- Rollers and cam followers
- Rod ends and spherical plain bearings (standard or stainless steel version)
- Taper roller bearings
- Thrust ball bearings
- Precision tapered roller bearings (standard and special version)
- Spherical roller thrust bearings
- Miniature ball bearings (standard or stainless steel version)
- Lock nuts
Depending on the kind of application required, the type of bearings may vary. However, the basic requirements for all applications must be: high speed and load capacity, extended bearing life, long maintenance intervals and low energy consumption.