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At the beginning of this year, assembly of spherical roller bearings 231/800 EKW 33MH NF was held at one of our major customers in Germany. There were four pieces of this type of bearing that will be used in the mining industry, specifically for the drive wheel excavator in surface mine for lignite mining. The smooth running of the final assembly was supervised by personnel of our distributor the company SGN Wälzlager GmbH.

To improve services for customers ZKL extended electronic catalogue on the ZKL website about the download of 3D models of ZKL bearings. Models are created in neutral STEP format. These models might be used in product assemblies and bills of material of ZKL bearings users.

When created, models were designed to be most realistic. Therefore specific design features (flange, groove etc.) are included in the models. In comparison with available models of competitors´ bearings, customers of ZKL will gain more realistic and detailed models which are closer e.g. to real bearing mass properties.

In these days ZKL Group has shipped 3 types of large-size bearings to the major customers from the mining industry. The bearings´ designation is PLC 512-39, PLC 412-64 T3 and PLC 612-45 T3. The PLC 512-39 is large-sized, spherical roller and split bearing. Compared to the standard undivided bearings this application enables to realize the bearing´s replacement in short time.