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Welcome to the Schaeffler Group!
The Schaeffler Group with its brands INA, FAG and LuK is a leading manufacturer of rolling bearings and linear products as well as a renowned supplier to the automotive industry of high-precision products and systems for engines, transmissions and chassis applications. The group of companies stands for exceptional customer focus, innovative ability and the highest possible level of quality. Approximately 61,000 employees at over 180 locations in more than 50 countries worldwide generated sales of 7.3 billion euros in 2009. This makes the Schaeffler Group one of the largest German and European industrial companies in family ownership.
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The Millennium Wheel has been turning continuously, day after day, for ten years now on the bank of the Thames in London and has become one of the largest visitor attractions and a modern landmark of the British capital. At the center of the observation wheel: Rolling bearings from FAG which ensure the wheel rotates reliably.
Bearing technology from Schaeffler Group Industrial ensures the high-precision operation of the Andasol solar power plants in Spain, thus enabling them to achieve their maximum level of efficiency. More than thousand hydraulic rod ends from ELGES – Schaeffler Group Industrial’s plain bearing brand – support several hundreds of hydraulically-adjustable parabolic troughs, positioning them with millimeter precision and helping them to continuously follow the sun.
The Schaeffler Group uses modern coating technology in order to optimize the functionality of surfaces in heavily loaded rolling bearings and precision components. In focus are coatings that prevent or reduce corrosion and fretting corrosion, as well as wear, friction, slippage and the passage of current. Offered under the trademarks of Corrotect®, Durotect®, Triondur® and Isotect®, the coatings are applied to the component surfaces in a number of different methods, without a thermo-chemical diffusion occurring between the coating and the base material.
The Schaeffler Group is preparing the expansion of its manufacturing capacity in North America for its multiple award-winning UniAir product, which is the world’s first continuously variable hydraulic valve train system. The UniAir valve train actuator, invented by Fiat Powertrain Technologies and developed and produced under licence by the Schaeffler Group, is a key component of the Fiat Powertrain Technologies MultiAir* system, which made its debut in the middle of 2009 with introduction of the Alfa MiTo 1.4 MultiAir.
In our press office, we have collected press releases and images about the North American International Auto Show.
