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Norwegian ship owner Solvang has introduced predictive maintenance to its fleet of tankers by investing in the new system for manual vibration monitoring, Enlight ProCollect from SKF. Solvang, which transports a variety of petrochemicals, will use SKF’s QuickCollect vibration sensors and ProCollect app to monitor a range of onboard rotating …

Since 2015, SKF has decreased its manufacturing carbon footprint by 36% and is already operating two carbon neutral factories. Today, SKF announces its aim to achieve a fully carbon neutral manufacturing footprint by 2030. The 2030 target will cover SKF’s own manufacturing operations, i.e. SKF’s scope 1 and 2 emissions. …

The visiting professorship is the topic of tribology within the Imperial College Department of Mechanical Engineering, part of the Faculty of Engineering. The role is intended to promote cooperation and common research work on advanced tribology topics between SKF and the College. The new role will run for three years …

A condition-based monitoring program, devised for the marine industry by SKF, enables ship operators control costs and avoid damaging equipment breakdown. One leading operator, Capital Ship Management Corp. (Capital), has been investigating condition monitoring strategies since 2006, in order to reduce the maintenance costs and minimise the unexpected machinery & …

SKF has released the world’s first commercial load sensing bearing based on its proprietary fibre optic sensing technology. A technology, as earlier announced, being part of a long term strategic technical product development. The first product streamlines the creation of rotating products such as pumps, using angular contact ball bearings. In it …

RS Components (RS) has signed a new direct supply agreement with Swedish bearing manufacturer SKF. The agreement will enable RS to undertake a rapid SKF range expansion, focusing first on power transmission products, bearings and seals for industrial design and maintenance engineers. Founded in Gothenburg in 1907, SKF is the …

Opened in 1983, Hartlepool power station in County Durham is one of seven UK nuclear power stations built using two Advanced Gas Cooled Reactors (AGR). Owned and run today by EDF Energy, the 1,185MW plant is scheduled to continue operating until 2024. Hartlepool currently provides around two per cent of …

he Association of Professional Sales (APS) has awarded SKF Industrial Sales its highly acclaimed Investor in Sales award, recognising a commitment to ethics and professionalism within the company’s salesforce. The Investor in Sales award is granted to companies when over 50 per cent of the salesforce has passed the APS’s professional registration assessment, which evaluates their ethical behaviour using hypothetical, …

SKF and Proximion AB, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hexatronic Group AB, have entered into a development partnership for the industrialisation of fibre optic sensing systems. The two parties will work together to combine SKF’s fibre optic bearing sensing technology with Proximion’s application integration experience and knowledge within development and production of advanced fibre optic sensors and data collection hardware …