SKF’s power transmission range includes chains, belts, pulleys, sprockets, couplings and bushings as well as hub taper locking elements and complements the company’s core technologies – bearings and units, seals, lubrication, mechatronics and engineering services. There are a large number of chain configurations and materials available to meet the different types of chain conveyor applications. Conveyor chain is found in almost every industry and SKF can supply chain for virtually any conveyor requirement, including lifting applications, and applications in the agriculture, sugar, cement, coal and mineral processing industries.
SKF transmission and precision roller chain offerings are based on European and American standards. Due to SKF’s advanced manufacturing capability any product can be designed for any customer’s needs. “We can also supply customised designs with increased link plate and side bar thicknesses, or with customised pitch,” says SKF product manager for power transmission, Frans Pienaar.
“Since high manufacturing standards play an important role in the quality of our chain, it is imperative that the raw materials used to manufacture each chain component must meet very stringent specifications, undergoing rigorous processes and strict inspections,” he continues. The shape of the inner and outer link plates has been adapted to have a wider waist link plate design and according to Pienaar this provides an increase in fatigue strength. In addition, stringent plate thickness controls allow the chains to run smoothly. SKF chains use solid rollers that are cold-drawn from bar stock to improve fatigue strength and resist the damaging effects of shock loads. All rollers go through a hardening process to improve wear resistance and increase service life.
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As a part of its ongoing initiative to ensure the supply of genuine and reliable products to its customers, SKF announced the recent seizure of a sizable number of products marked SKF from five counterfeit sellers in the main Nigerian bearing markets of Kano, Kaduna and Lagos. These traders were non-authorised traders of SKF products.
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