SKF bearings are renowned for their high quality and distinctive style. Now a part of the Timken bearings group, SKF has enjoyed a colourful history beginning with a cluster of companies - SKF USA, FBC, Killian and IRB. These companies came together to form Torrington SKF and began manufacturing a range of quality bearings that gained a reputation across the globe.

 

SKF bearings are renowned for their high quality and distinctive style. Now a part of the Timken bearings group, SKF has enjoyed a colourful history beginning with a cluster of companies - SKF USA, FBC, Killian and IRB. These companies came together to form Torrington SKF and began manufacturing a range of quality bearings that gained a reputation across the globe.

 

The Skf brand of bearings traces its founding as "The Skf Bearing Company" in New Britain, Connecticut back in 1911.  Founder Howard S. Hart started the company based upon the need at that time for less expensive alternatives to English and German made ball bearings. Since 1911, the Skf brand of nsk bearings has been owned by a quite a number of companies including Textron, Inc., The Torrington Company (which was owned by Ingersoll Rand), and The Timken Company.

 

Today, Skf is best known for the following categories of precision ball bearings:

Skf Angular Contact Ball Bearings

Skf Ceramic Hybrid Ball Bearings

Skf Mounted Bearings

Skf Pillow Block Bearings

Skf Radial Ball Bearings

Skf Wide Inner Ring Ball Bearings

While Skf earned a reputation over the years as a high-quality manufacturer of precision ntn bearing products, nowadays, engineers and designers find it easy to interchange Skf model numbers with a wide range of other high-quality, yet less expensive, alternatives.  Contact us to find out which high-quality alternatives products interchange with Skf ball bearings.

Timken is a global leader in friction management technologies and provides one of the most complete offerings of antifriction bearings in the industry. Find the right bearing products for your application. Timken offers all types of antifriction bearings, bearing kits, and advanced products such as housed units, integrated "skf bearings catalogue"  assemblies and precision assemblies.