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The Timken Company is a global manufacturer of bearings and power transmission products. [4] Timken operates from 42 countries. The Timken Company brands include: Timken bearings; GGB bearings; American Roller Bearing and Engineered Solutions Group (iMECH); Lagersmit sealing solutions; Rollon, Nadella and Rosa Sistemi linear motion products; Philadelph
Glacier developed the industry's first metal-polymer bearing with bronze and polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) lining; these DU® self-lubricating bushes, launched in 1956, are still being manufactured, specified and used today, and its DX® marginally-lubricated bearings, introduced in 1965, are still specified and used for applications where a ...
The first locomotive to use roller bearings made by Timken was Timken 1111, a 4-8-4 built by Alco in 1930. The locomotive was used on 15 American railroads for demonstration runs, and was purchased by the Northern Pacific Railroad , the last railroad to try the specially-built locomotive, in 1933.
The company was founded in New Britain, Connecticut on March 8, 1911, by Howard Stanley Hart. [1] Fafnir was acquired by Textron in 1968. In 1988, Textron's Fafnir Bearing division was acquired by the Torrington Company, which in turn sold it in 1998 to the Timken Company, which still markets ball bearings under the Fafnir brand.
Timken, Kansas, town; Timken 1111, 4-8-4 steam locomotive built in 1930; Timken Company, a manufacturer of industrial parts; Timken High School, in Canton, Ohio, United States; Timken House, historic house in California; Timken Museum of Art, fine art museum in San Diego, California, United States; Timken Roller Bearing Company
Established in 2003, NTN Bearing Service Co. was formed by Higashinihon NTN Service Corporation, who was a wholly owned subsidiary of NTN Corporation at the time. Kyushu NTN Corporation was absorbed into the wholly owned subsidiary, which also took control of Osaka NTN Pillow Center Corporation in Kansai.
In 2003 Torrington was purchased by the Timken Company, nearly doubling its size. [4] Timken ceased all operations in Torrington and shut down the plants in 2006. [5] Timken also redistributed employees to their other plants. [2] The rest of the heavy bearing plants and needle bearing plants were eventually sold to JTEKT in 2009.
Boston-born Willard Rockwell (1888–1978) made his fortune with the invention and successful launch of a new bearing system for truck axles in 1919. He merged his Oshkosh, Wisconsin-based operation with the Timken-Detroit Axle Company (current Meritor Inc. [1]) in 1928, [2] rising to become chairman of its board in 1940.