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Since 1943, Bearing Service has provided superior products and services to customers in Southwest Michigan and throughout the United States. 

Bearing Service offers a full range of bearing repair services for businesses throughout Michigan, the United States, and even abroad. While we do carry a full line of new parts and bearings, there are cases in which repair services can be more affordable and more successful than trying to source replacement parts.

Bearing Service can provide you with a full range of power transmission products to keep your equipment running smoothly and efficiently. 

Bearing Service offers supreme bearing repair services to help keep your equipment running properly. For some older parts, it can be difficult to find places who can source your older bearings for restocking. 

In addition to providing the best in bearing repair and products in the industry, Bearing Service can also provide you with the training that all of your employees need to ensure that they have the tools and knowhow to successfully complete their work. 

When you have expensive machinery to maintain, you know how frustrating that bearing failure can be. No matter if you are running a massive international assembly line or a small manufacturer making just a few products, any sort of slowdowns or shutdowns caused by component failure can be disastrous to your production schedule and to your bottom line. 

If you need bearing repair for your business, Bearing Service can provide you with the effective results you need to keep your operation running smoothly. 

Bearing Service has been the leading supplier of the best spherical, precision, needle, ball, and roller bearings from the best manufacturers in the industry.

For nearly 80 years, Bearing Service has built a stellar reputation for unmatched customer service and innovative product lines while building long-term relationships with your customer base. 

At Bearing Service, we know that getting the right parts and components you need is only part of the process. If your employees lack the knowledge of how to properly use these parts and components, it can cost your business extra time and money getting your personnel prepared to do their work.

Bearing Service can provide you with quality, reliable bearing repair service for even the rarest bearings in the industry. With the progressive nature of technology, it is inevitable that certain bearings will be out of production and extremely difficult to find and re-stock.

For many years at Bearing Service, we have lived by our mission of providing our customers with the highest level of satisfaction imaginable by offering them innovative solutions, which results in long term relationships, anticipated future needs to increase sales, and being highly responsive to their emergency solutions. In today’s post, we are going to discuss the types of roller bearings we have to offer at Bearing Service.

No matter how careful you are, there’s always a chance of bearing failure. Even if you stick to a strict, regular maintenance routine, component failure can occur. While this is often a disheartening occurrence that can impact productivity and profitability, it’s important to understand that it’s not the end of the world. As a professional provider of bearing repair, Bearing Service has seen and worked with it all: large bearings, hard-to-find bearings, custom bearings, and more. We have what it takes to repair — or replace — nearly any kind of bearing, no matter how challenging.

Bearing Service Inc. has received one of Rexnord’s top Trailblazer honors. Each year Rexnord recognizes the Trailblazer with the largest dollar growth and highest percentage growth in shipments. Bearing Service Inc. led the Trailblazer group with the largest percentage growth in shipments from 2019 to 2020, achieving a 16.6% increase in Rexnord shipments.

If you’ve ever had to hire an outside company to perform your company’s bearing installation, you know how expensive it can be. You also know that it can lead to extended downtime as you schedule the installation, shut down the affected lines, and wait for the technicians to arrive. Beyond the costs of actually having your new bearings installed, the costs of this temporary shutdown can be considerable. And, on top of that, they can impact employee morale as productivity is impacted and hours are cut. What if you could eliminate this wait time? What if you could preserve your uptime and keep your employees happy?

If your operation is reliant upon hard-to-find or discontinued bearings, you know how important quality, time-sensitive bearing repair services are. You know how harrowing it can be when an irreplaceable bearing breaks down… and how worrisome it is when you have to halt production to wait on repairs. Thankfully, the team at Bearing Service can help. With years of experience working with difficult-to-find and discontinued bearings, we are the industry’s go-to source for high-quality, cost-effective bearing repair.

If you’re interested in learning to perform bearing maintenance, bearing installation, precision spindle repair, or a range of other services, you’re in the right place! Bearing Service is the industry’s expert on all things bearing and linear motion related. With over seventy years of experience, we’re continually working to expand our knowledge base, improve our services, and — of course — provide our customers with high-quality, informative training sessions. We offer classes on linear motion fundamentals, bearing maintenance, mechanical gear drive basics, and more.

If you've been looking for a reliable, proven distributor of your operation's essential bearings and power transmission products, we can assure you that you're in the right place! Bearing Service has been a leading provider of power transmission products for over a half century. With experience serving a wide range of industries, we are able to call upon the market's leading manufacturers, from Alemite and Kaydon to Loctite and Lubriko. No matter what your needs are – or your application – we're certain that our versatility can strengthen your operation and, more importantly, give you the dependability that you need to operate confidently.

When you want to work with the absolute best supplier of power transmission products, you owe it to yourself – and your company – to work with Bearing Service. With a massive, unparalleled selection of chain couplings, clutches, gears, idlers, pulleys, QD bushings, and much, much more, we are the industry’s go-to source. Better yet, with over half a century of experience, we are recognized as the most knowledgeable, most capable, and most experienced provider in the business. When you work with us, you can count on us to listen to your concerns, develop solutions, and provide clear, efficient answers.

Since 1943, Bearing Service has dedicated itself to superior customer service, innovating within our product lines, and cultivating long-term relationships. Carrying products from over 300 of the world's leading manufacturers, including Rexnord, Timken, NTN, Schaeffler, and SKF, we have the ability to source a wide range of bearings, seals, and power transmission and linear motion products. With four branch locations that serve our customer base in Michigan, the United States, and the world, our staff is tasked with ensuring that every customer – with every order – is afforded the absolute best customer service possible.

As a way to address broken bearings that are otherwise difficult to replace, bearing repair is an ideal solution. Whether your operation is utilizing discontinued equipment or unsupported parts, finding replacement bearings can be exceedingly difficult. And, when disaster strikes, you may find yourself facing a substantial amount of downtime while you search — often in vain — for a suitable replacement. But, with the repair services available from Bearing Service, you can rest assured that you’ll be back up and running in no time.

The team at Bearing Service is committed to providing our customers with top notch service, whether we're sourcing new power transmission products, offering bearing repair services, or anything in between. With this goal in mind, our staff is among the most highly trained, educated, and experienced in the industry. When it comes to answering questions about your specific needs and applications, we're confident that they can rise to the challenge. In today's post, we're going to look at a few common questions and, more importantly, provide answers to those questions.

When it comes to mechanical belt training, there’s only one name that matters: Bearing Service. As the industry’s go-to source for high-quality training on the installation, maintenance, and repair of mechanical equipment, we offer a wide range of classes to help you ensure that your operation continues running smoothly. With the aim of building self-reliance and reducing the need for outside repairs, our classes offer hands-on demonstrations and certifications of completion. In today’s post, we’re going to look at why you’ll be happy that you chose Bearing Service for your training needs.

If you’re in charge of maintaining machinery, you know that bearing failure is always a possibility. No matter the size of your operation, from a small single-product manufacturer to a massive, multinational assembly line, you’ve likely experienced slowdown – or shutdown – due to component failure. But what causes bearings to fail? What’s the root source of wear and tear? Better yet, how can these contributing factors be mitigated – or avoided entirely – to ensure that your operation maintains its output, productivity, and profitability?

For over seventy years, Bearing Service – the industry’s leading bearing supplier – has aimed to provide our customers with the absolute best customer experience. With the aim of forming long-term relationships, we like to learn what our customers’ operations are about, what challenges they face, and what they’re looking for in a supplier. Then, once we have a full picture of their needs, we strive to provide them with the essential parts that they need. Able to source from 300 of the market’s best manufacturers, including Timken, SKF, and National Seals, you can be confident that we have – or can get – the products that you need.

For over a half century, Bearing Service has maintained a commitment to delivering the absolute best customer service and highest quality products. Aiming to form mutually beneficial, long-term relationships with our customers, we’ve curated a catalog consisting of the best products from the best manufacturers. Whether you’re looking for products from SKF, Timken, National Seals, or any number of other manufacturers, you can be confident that we have – or can source – precisely what you need. In addition to this, we’ve established four branch locations to ensure that our deliveries are always timely and dependable.

When you’re looking to coach your team on chain drive training basics, you owe it to yourself to give them training through Bearing Service. Founded in 1943, we’ve worked continually to better understand our industry. Our team of highly capable, highly knowledgeable experts are among the most experienced around, allowing us to identify – and address! – a wide range of mechanical issues. Known for our comprehensive bearing repair services, we’re also committed to arming our customers with the knowledge that they need to maintain their own equipment.

One of Bearing Service’s most reliable manufacturers, U.S. Tsubaki Power Transmission, LLC, recently announced the addition of a new product, Titan Series Chain, to its current Roller Chain line. Utilizing all of the traditional elements of Tsubaki’s standard ANSI chain and including new features specially developed by the company’s research department, the Titan Series chains have been engineered to increase the lifespan of roller chains in high speed and harsh applications.

Long bearing life is essential to the performance and long-term cost-effectiveness of equipment. This statement is especially true in the case of wind turbines. With constant, repetitive motion inherent to the application, extending bearing life has a direct correlation to decreasing maintenance frequency and, as a result, reducing costs. To assist in this endeavor, one of the manufacturers that Bearing Service works with, Timken, has developed new bearings that reduce axial thrust into the gearbox by 67%, resulting in a marked improvement in component life. Additionally, the TDI Roller Bearings offer a number of additional benefits...

When you’re interested in education, Bearing Service offers a wide range of opportunities, including bearing maintenance, precision spindle repair, mechanical belt training, and much more. As established experts in the industry, we have over seventy years of experience servicing and repairing ball bearings and provide our customers with access to the largest inventory of bearings, power transmission, and linear motion products on the market. If there’s one thing that we know, it’s how to repair and maintain expensive, critical equipment.