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SBN Wälzlager GmbH & Co. KG

Products: Ball, Needle & Roller bearings

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SBN Wälzlager was founded in 1998 with four employees. All employees have many years of experience in the international bearing business. The location was initially a business incubator in Homburg and the sales program had a printed catalog of 18 pages. Due to the rapid growth of the company an extension was urgently needed. In 2000, an administration building and a corresponding bearing warehouse were also inaugurated in Homburg. In 2003, the storage area were extended spaciously.

In May 2014, a completely new office and warehouse building was built in Schönenberg-Kübelberg (Rhineland-Palatinate) which meet the current and future requirements of modern workplace and storage conditions. Located conveniently close to the motorway between Kaiserslautern and Saarbrücken, Schönenberg-Kübelberg (www.vgsk.de) offers ideal conditions their customers, employees and suppliers ideal conditions for future-oriented business-action.

Today they employ around 30 people, train their employees and generate sales in the tens of millions. The sales catalog comprises 145 pages and additionally a broad product range of special bearings according to customer specifications.

The customer base is made up of many small and medium-sized companies. These are partially recognized world leaders in their business. Some DAX companies have been very satisfied customers for many years.

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Location

Jan-Hutzel-Weg 1, 66901, Schönenberg-KübelbergGermany

Phone: +49 (0) 6373 500 800
Fax: +49 (0) 6373 500 80
Website: www.sbn.de
Email: info@sbn.de

FAQ

What is an angular contact ball bearing?

An angular contact ball bearing uses axially asymmetric races. An axial load passes in a straight line through the bearing, whereas a radial load takes an oblique path that tends to want to separate the races axially. So the angle of contact on the inner race is the same as that on the outer race. Angular contact bearings better support "combined loads" (loading in both the radial and axial directions) and the contact angle of the bearing should be matched to the relative proportions of each. The larger the contact angle (typically in the range 10 to 45 degrees), the higher the axial load supported, but the lower the radial load. In high speed applications, such as turbines, jet engines, and dentistry equipment, the centrifugal forces generated by the balls changes the contact angle at the inner and outer race. Ceramics such as silicon nitride are now regularly used in such applications due to their low density (40% of steel). These materials significantly reduce centrifugal force and function well in high temperature environments. They also tend to wear in a similar way to bearing steel—rather than cracking or shattering like glass or porcelain.

Most bicycles use angular-contact bearings in the headsets because the forces on these bearings are in both the radial and axial direction.

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