Rolling bearings

Rolling bearings support and guide rotating or oscillating machine elements – such as shafts, axles or wheels – and transfer loads between machine components. They provide high precision and low friction and therefore enable high rotational speeds while reducing noise, heat, energy consumption and wear. Rolling bearings are cost-effective and exchangeable machine elements that typically follow national or international dimension standards.

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Product types

Ball bearings

Deep groove ball bearings

Particularly versatile bearings. Suitable for high or very high speeds, accommodating both radial and axial loads in both directions. Robust, low maintenance and available in many designs.

Insert bearings (Y-bearings)

Easy-to-mount bearings with a convex outer ring. Able to accommodate static misalignment and provide long service life in a wide variety of applications with high contamination levels.

Angular contact ball bearings

Bearings with good running properties and high axial load carrying capacity, designed to accommodate simultaneously acting radial and axial loads.

Self-aligning ball bearings

Insensitive to static and dynamic misalignment. These two-row ball bearings generate very little frictional heat even at high speeds – leading to minimal maintenance needs.

Thrust ball bearings

Designed to accommodate axial loads in single or double directions. Separable and interchangeable components simplify mounting and dismounting and maintenance inspections.

Angular contact thrust ball bearings

Separable bearings, beneficial in applications where safe radial and axial support is required, together with extremely precise axial guidance of the shaft.

Roller bearings

Cylindrical roller bearings

Available in many designs, customizable to meet requirements of applications with high loads or high speeds. Separable for easier maintenance inspections.

Needle roller bearings

Bearings that have many rollers with small diameters relative to their length, offering a compact solution with high stiffness and load carrying capacity.

Tapered roller bearings

Bearings with tapered inner and outer ring raceways as well as tapered rollers. Designed to take on heavy combined loads. Available in many designs, series, and sizes.

Spherical roller bearings

Robust bearings that can accommodate very heavy radial and heavy axial loads in applications prone to misalignment or shaft deflections. Available in both sealed and open versions.

Cylindrical roller thrust bearings

Suitable for arrangements that need to support heavy axial load and no radial load. Very stiff and require little axial space. Components can be mounted separately.

Needle roller thrust bearings

Provide a high degree of stiffness within a minimum axial space. A form-stable cage reliably retains and guides a large number of needle rollers. Accommodate heavy axial and peak loads.

Tapered roller thrust bearings

Bearings designed to accommodate heavy axial loads and peak loads and to provide optimal load distribution. Very stiff and require little axial space.

Spherical roller thrust bearings

Spherical roller thrust bearings with specially designed raceways and asymmetrical rollers, capable of accommodating axial loads acting in one direction and simultaneously acting radial loads.

In focus

The inventor of the CARB bearing

In the 1990s, Magnus Kellström and his colleagues had an idea about a bearing that could tolerate both angular misalignment and axial movement without losing efficiency. The result of their efforts – the CARB toroidal roller bearing. Watch the video to find out more.

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SKF Generalized Bearing Life Model (GBLM)

Choose the right bearing for the right application, every time. The GBLM lets SKF customers and distributors calculate whether a hybrid bearing will outperform a steel one in a given application – or not.