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SKF Group SKF is the leading global supplier of products, customer solutions and services in the business of rolling bearings and seals. The Group’s position and its very strong brand awareness are due to its own competence in providing products and services able to create value for all customers. SKF’s main skills include technical support, maintenance services, condition monitoring and training. SKF also holds an increasingly important position in the market for linear motion products, as well as high precision bearings, spindles and spindle services for the machine tool industry, lubrication systems, and is an established producer of bearing steel. The SKF business is organized into five divisions: Industrial, Automotive, Electrical, Service and Aero and Steel. Each division serves a global market, focusing on its specific customer segments. To successfully create added value for all customer belonging to these different
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Linear Motion from SKF communities, SKF holds a deep and full understanding of what customers specifically require and need, regarding to products and services. Original and most valuable equipment manufacturers value how SKF’s knowledge and technology can make their own products more competitive. For endusers, the aim is to ensure the maximum utilization of their assets in order to increase their productivity and profitability. In the aftermarket, the most important elements are to exactly know what kind of products the customer needs and to have these products always and immediately available. The key factor is one only: “Knowledge”. Learning and competence developing is a never-ending journey and SKF’s competitive advantage is directly linked to its own technological know-how increased throughout decades.
Linear Motion from SKF is a business unit specialised in manufacturing and sales of a wide range of high precision components, units and systems for linear movements, providing solutions for guiding, driving, actuation and positioning. SKF Linear Motion provides products and assistance through a specialised sales companies network all around the world, in order to be always close to customers, supporting them in their everyday needs and making Linear Motion’s technology totally meet their requests for any application use. Such an organised support network and technological knowledge are available 24 hours a day on www.linearmotion.skf.com and the whole wide standard product range is by customers’ hands with Standard delivery range catalogue.
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