5 world's famous bearing brands in 2025
1. SKF (Sweden)
Founded in 1907
Industry status: The world's largest bearing manufacturer, accounting for about 20% of the market share, with an annual output of more than 500 million sets and business covering more than 130 countries.
Technical features: With the vision of "a world of reliable operation", its products include rolling bearings, seals, lubrication systems and intelligent monitoring equipment. Its Explorer series bearings are known for their ultra-long life and excellent performance, and are widely used in automobiles, wind power, aerospace and other fields.
Innovation areas: Promote digital transformation and provide full life cycle management services, such as SKF4U one-stop solution.
2. Schaeffler Group (FAG/INA, Germany)
Founded: 1883 (FAG) / 1946 (INA)
Industry status: The world's first rolling bearing manufacturer, after the merger in 2001, it became the representative of German precision engineering, with annual sales exceeding 8.9 billion euros.
Technical features: Famous for high-precision, high-speed bearings, especially in machine tool spindles and automotive transmission systems. X-life series bearings lead the industry in maximum speed and load capacity.
Application areas: automotive engines, gearboxes and industrial robots.
3. NSK (Japan)
Founded: 1916
Industry status: Japan's largest bearing company, with a global market share of about 13%, and has technical advantages in the field of precision machining.
Technical features: Develop long-life bearing steel (such as EP steel), focus on high-precision angular contact ball bearings, used in electric injection molding machines, CNC machine tools and other equipment.
Market layout: More than 50 factories worldwide, 12 production bases in China, deeply involved in the new energy vehicle industry chain.
4. Timken (TIMKEN, USA)
Founded: 1899
Industry status: The world's largest tapered roller bearing manufacturer, the North American market leader, with products covering aviation, railways and heavy machinery.
Technical advantages: Using the world's top clean steel, the bearings are resistant to high temperatures and impacts, and are designed for extreme environments. Typical cases include providing 34-ton giant bearings for slag vertical mills.

5. NTN (NTN, Japan)
Founded: 1918
Industry status: One of the three major bearing giants in Japan, with precision machinery manufacturing as its core, its products are used in multiple fields such as satellite orbits and food machinery.
Technical highlights: 0.01 micron processing accuracy, development of highly complex components such as constant velocity joints.


