SKF’s wheel-end & sealing solution, mudlock, trackstar, hydraulic seals
SKF Betting Big on India
SKF offers advanced products and solutions for the Indian Construction Industry. Notably, the company is focused on supporting Indian OEMs in their domestic and global growth and to meet increasing demands for greater productivity, reliability, and safety in construction machines. SKF's wide range of solutions include wheel-end solutions, sealing solutions, mudblock seals, trackstar seals, hydraulic seals, lubrication solutions, and SKF hydraulic driven lubricator.What's noteworthy is the fact that SKF is taking a more holistic approach that includes and considers the needs of both equipment builders and users of the equipment. According to the company's officials, "By taking what we call the SKF Lifecycle Management approach, we utilize the knowledge of both our design teams and our field application specialists to create next-generation designs that reflect real world conditions, and to recommend maintenance practices that maximize the equipment's life and reliability. By looking at total cost of ownership, we can show both the OEMS and the end-user customer how to maximize the value of the equipment and deliver the lowest possible lifecycle cost."
They continued, "A strong global expert engineering team and knowledge of construction machine markets is coupled with key products that can deliver specialized solutions for the industry. Complete wheel end units for driven wheels, patented sealing products and novel lubrication solutions for hydraulic hammers are some of our offerings." Moreover, SKF also caters to the Off Highway Business Vertical and provides bearings and oscillating joints, seals for hydraulic cylinders and rotating shafts, central lubrication systems, health monitoring and design engineering for the complete work – and drive side of industrial off-highway machinery. According to the company officials, Off-Highway is one of the seven business units in our business area of industrial market. We handle builders and users of construction, agriculture & forestry, lift truck drives and tunnel boring machines from this business unit."
NBM&CW January 2014