Founded in as Roller Bearing Company of America in Newark, New Jersey, the company originally manufactured bearing products including tapered roller bearings, spherical bearings, and needle roller bearings. Government, and various aftermarket distributors including Applied Industrial Technologies, Kaman Industrial Technologies, and Motion Industries, among many others.
From the s to today, the company continued to grow through acquisition of complementary bearing, specially engineered product, and machine tool product manufacturers. Located in Rancho Dominguez, California, the division was founded in ITB manufactures a complete line of thin section ball bearings with capabilities to over 40 inches outside diameter. ITB supports a large range of industrial applications including bearings that are used in medical equipment, industrial automation robots, and in the production of semiconductors.
This bearing was originally designed to solve aircraft delivery delays due to critical shortages in rod ends and self-aligning bearings during the war effort. Schaublin is recognized as the world leader in terms of precision machine tool collets and work clamping hardware. Schaublin has continued to make advancements in the machine tool industry with advancements such as the patented SRS Schaublin Runout adjustment System collet chuck that allows the machine tool operator to adjust the positioning of the workpiece to achieve extremely low levels concentricity on the workpiece even on a machine tool that is not equipped to achieve these low concentricity levels.
Schaublin is also a world-wide supplier of specialized self-lubricating lined suspension bearings for high speed trains, and produces low profile car coupling bearings for trams. RBC Polska manufactures components for bearings as well as complete bearing products, and machine tool accessories for Schaublin. PIC produces a wide range of parts including precision gears spur, bevel, helical, etc. PIC supplies product for medical and laboratory equipment, general industrial, material handling, semiconductor, and defense industries.
Lubron produces bearing systems that are used in bridges, oil refineries and offshore oil platforms, large construction cranes, hydroelectric and windpower applications, skyscrapers, and a many other of industrial applications. Climax provides shaft collars, rigid couplings, keyless locking devices, Clesco mounted bearings and Clesco abrasives hardware. Climax supplies products to a diverse range of industrial sectors including windpower, lumber and steel production, mining, glass bottle production, and material handling.
