Hi-performance bearing solutions for extreme conditions

The extreme demands and widely varied operating conditions present a challenge for both, man and machine. Schaeffler collaborates with well-known manufacturers and operators to develop rolling bearings for the steel industry. 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