NKE Bearings Develops Bearings for Conveyor Belt Rollers

To enable conveyor belt rollers to operate in extreme conditions such as transporting sand or rock for mining, NKE Austria GmbH has developed single-row deep groove ball bearings. These bearings have a special cage construction of low-friction synthetic material, improved raceway geometry, adjusted radial internal clearance, special low friction seals and a selected lubricant for use in a broad operating temperature range. The new bearing concept from NKE, designed especially to withstand the requirements of conveyor belt rollers, offers a range of advantages: it reduces the risk of fire, prolongs the service life of the roller bearings in the harshest conditions, reduces energy consumption, increases the conveyor system's reliability and lowers overall operating costs.

"NKE has tremendous expertise in mining applications," says Michael Rößl, Applications Engineer with NKE in Steyr. "This is an extremely complex engineering achievement in response to the wish expressed by many customers for improving the functional capability of conveyor belts. Our new roller bearing system will help to substantially lower outage times in material transportation.”

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