Metallurgical production and processing
Steel is the basic material in a modern industrial society and a standard of its development. It is widely used in all important branches of industry: transportation, mechanical engineering, steel construction, and energy/environmental technology. The Schaeffler Group collaborates with well-known manufacturers and operators to develop rolling bearings for the steel industry. The extreme demands and widely varied operating conditions present a challenge for man and machine. The tailor-made FAG rolling bearings have proven themselves even in the most critical applications, ensuring maximum system availability thanks to their quality.
Applications
The operating conditions of rolling bearings in the steel industry are marked by high temperatures, high speeds, and considerable exposure to contamination and water.
- Steel manufacturing
Converters, continuous casting machines
- Steel forming
Hot-rolling mills for flat products, section mills, wire mills, cold-rolling mills, multi-roll cold-rolling stands, straightening machines
Products
Extensive product ranges for smelting and rolling mills
Schaeffler offers bearing solutions for all bearing positions in systems for producing and forming steel and non-ferrous metals. Schaeffler has extensive expertise thanks to decades of collaboration with system manufacturers and operators. Hundreds of steel mills are profiting from the quality of tailor-made solutions – solutions that make it possible to economically and safely increase production speeds with utmost reliability:
- Multi-row tapered roller bearings
- Cylindrical roller bearings (multi-row, full complement)
- Needle roller bearings
- Spherical roller bearings
- Yoke type track rollers
- Axial bearings
- Ball bearings
- Split bearings
- Housings
- Spherical plain bearings
Service
Service for greater operational safety
Schaeffler offers an extensive package of service features and devices. The assortment ranges from measuring and assembly equipment to state-of-the-art inspection and monitoring equipment.
- Services
Technical consulting, calculation, publications, assembly instructions, project sheets, partnerships, assembly, maintenance, diagnosis, reprocessing bearings
- Service products
Assembly equipment, bearing analyzers
- Research and development
Design, calculation methods, materials
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