GGB Bearings eyes future products
GGB Bearings, a Pune-based bearing company foresees the Indian market and developing products that are needed for future. For many applications the company has already developed future products which can be offered to OEMs and component makers immediately when they start new development. GGB is though new to the market gets identified world-wide as a reliable player. They have global footprint across markets and renders bearing solutions for all markets.
The company offers complete range of self-lubricating and pre-lubricated plain bearings for automotive applications. Capable of withstanding the most severe environments and providing low friction, high wear resistance with proven reliability, the company’s high performance bearing includes DP4, DP11, DP31, DTS10, DX, DX10 and HI-EX metal-polymer bearings and EP22, EP43 and EP64 engineered plastic bearings. The bearings offered by them are also light in weight.
Highlighting on the future product needs Mahesh Thangamani, India Sales Manager, GGB India said that, “We constantly capture customers plan for future product and develop material to cater improved performance and efficiency required by the customers. We have already come up with future products and waiting for the customer’s call to deliver the same. These products will get their usage when they start new product development.” The trend is towards improved performance, higher life, higher efficiencies, reduced maintenance and downtime and it is keeping pace with these requirements with its new high performance products.
The compact, lightweight construction of bearings provides space and weight savings for reduced emissions and improved fuel economy. The compact design is also easy to assemble. GGBs non-metal-to-metal contact bearings improves comfort and reduces noise, while the bearings’ low friction provides better response time for greater safety and extends service life. System costs are reduced by the bearings’ ability to run dry, eliminating the need for lubricants, and in many cases, they can be used to replace costly roller bearings.
Commenting on the product developed by GGB, Mahesh said, “Our bearings also offer high resistance to wear and shock loads for greater reliability, smooth operation and extended bearing life. Low friction and breakaway torque eliminate stick-slip effect and reduce power losses for improved performance. Self-lubrication makes them suitable for applications requiring long service life without continuous maintenance and operating conditions with inadequate or no lubrication.” The greaseless lead-free bearings offered by the company comply with increasingly stringent environmental regulations such as the EU ELV, RoHS and WEEE directives and ISO 14001, as well as the ISO/TS 16949 international quality standard for the design, development, production, installation and servicing of automotive-related components.
In India many OEM’s are looking for future bearing material for enhanced performance and efficiency improvement of their product. However, keeping cost competitive is still a major factor. There is a tremendous cost pressure from customer. In some cases, there is an adverse need to come up with just enough quality workable solution with lower cost. The company is on its way to cater to such customers