Nachi Canada is a subsidiary of Nachi-Fujikoshi Corp. of Japan. Nachi Fujikoshi has a long-standing tradition of excellence in tooling and manufacturing. Nachi was founded in 1928 in Toyama City, Japan; since then we have grown to become a major global company whose products touch markets from telecommunications and consumer electronics to transportation, machining, food processing, and the chemical industry.

    Nachi is a Japanese manufacturer of quality precision ball and roller bearings. VXB.com is pleased to announce the honor of being a Nachi bearing distributor, all Nachi bearing products are now being sold in our VXB.com Bearing site.

Nachi Bearings

Nachi Bearings usually consist of an inner ring, outer ring, and rolling elements (balls or rollers), and a cage which positions the rolling elements at fixed intervals between the ring raceways. Nachi Standard materials for inner and outer rings, and for the rolling elements, are high carbon chromium bearing steel or case hardening steel. The Nachi bearing steel is heat-treated to an appropriate hardness to attain optimum resistance to rolling fatigue. Nachi Bearing surfaces are ground to a very high accuracy using special machine tools. While each of the various types of Nachi bearings has special features, the following features are common to most Nachi rolling contact bearing types:

Nachi Rolling contact bearings have relatively low starting resistance. There is little difference between the starting and running resistance of rolling contact bearings.

Nachi Dimensions and accuracy are standardized. Ready-made products of high quality are easy to obtain.

    Compared to “sliding” bearings, Nachi rolling contact bearings are less prone to wear and help to maintain the accuracy of the machine in which they are used.

Nachi Rolling contact bearings consume small amounts of lubricant and are far less costly to maintain than sliding-type bearings.

    While not common to all Nachi rolling contact bearings, many types can sustain both axial and radial loads. To get optimum performance from a selected bearing, it is necessary to understand the design and features of the various bearing types and to then select bearings optimal to individual machine performance. 

    In 1929, the Emperor Showa made a tour of the Kansai district to inspect industries as part of the encouragement of domestic production, and personally inspected a FUJIKOSHI hacksaw blade that was on display as an example of an outstanding domestic product at the Osaka Prefecture Office.  Overjoyed at the honor of entertaining the Emperor's special attention, Kohki Imura decided to name his product "Nachi" after the name of the latest naval cruiser to be made in Japan, the very same vessel that the Emperor was sailing on for his tour.  (The Nachi name itself comes from "Kumano-Nachi-Taisha," the Grand Shrine, that is origin of Japan.     It expresses strong entrepreneurial will.