National Bearings Co.

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About National Bearings Co. from http://www.nationalbearings.com

National Bearings Company began as a manufacturer of stamped metal products, primarily for the bicycle and automotive industries. In fact, many of the clutches used on the original Model-T Fords used ball retainers manufactured by National. This is the product that launched our company into manufacturing custom bearings and bearing components.

Over the years, National's product lines have expanded tremendously. In addition to metal stampings, we now produce a wide variety of products that includes Angular Contact Bearings, Plastic More... Outer Race Bearings, Unground Radial Bearings, Ball and Needle Retainers, Thrust Washers, and Plastic Roller Assemblies. And yes, we still manufacture Cup & Cone, or "bicycle retainers."

National Bearings is a manufacturer of custom engineered products. Our goal is to work with your engineers to develop the product best suited to your application.

Our manufacturing processes include metal stamping, screw machining, injection molding, metal surface finishing and assembly operations. Technological advances, such as Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software, CNC machining, and automated manufacturing processes have enabled us to produce higher quality products in a more cost-effective manner.

Our business is primarily focused in the automotive, power tool, and office furniture industries, but our products can also be found in many other mechanical and electrical applications, as well as in household products. These applications include mechanisms for power and manual seat adjusters for automobiles, keyless chucks for hand drills, drawer slides, garage door openers, vacuum cleaners, and kitchen appliances. Based on the variety of industries and applications we serve, it is quite possible that every household in the United States uses at least one of our products!

National Bearings Company became certified to QS9000 and ISO9002 in November of 1998, which assists us in meeting the varying expectations of our customers. We passed our recertification audits in November of 2001.

Our 100-employee workforce looks forward to supplying your requirements with products manufactured in our 43,000 square foot facility located in Lancaster, PA. Less