Babbitt bearings / In-house / Europe-wide
Babbitt bearing repair & manufacturing for turbomachinery
In-house production and engineering for journal and thrust bearing repair and manufacturing, with significantly reduced lead times compared to OEM channels.
- / In-house manufacturing
- / Significantly reduced lead times
- / Documented QC
Bearing services
Repair, manufacturing and engineering, one workshop.
Repair, manufacturing, hydrodynamic design and quality control. Everything that keeps a babbitt bearing reliable, under one roof in Stekene.
Repair & refurbishment
Restore worn or damaged bearings to original geometry, with full process traceability.
- White-metal repair and re-lining
- Journal and thrust bearing repair
- Machining and geometry correction
- Ultrasonic and penetrant testing (ISO)
- Pad replacement
In-house manufacturing & reverse engineering
From a damaged or obsolete bearing to a new, optimised one. End to end, in-house.
- Reverse engineering of existing bearings
- 2D and 3D design and production drawings
- CNC machining
- Centrifugal babbitt lining
- Custom load calculations and rotordynamic simulations
Hydrodynamic bearings
Tilting-pad, journal and thrust bearings for the full range of high-speed rotating equipment.
- Turbines, compressors and turboexpanders
- Gearboxes, generators and electric motors
- Industrial pumps
Inspection, testing & quality control
Every bearing leaves the workshop with documented evidence that it meets specification.
- Ultrasonic testing per ISO 4386-1
- Penetrant testing per ISO 4386-3
- Geometrical inspection and 3D scanning
- Failure analysis and reporting
Emergency response
Critical bearing failure? Repairs or new bearings within days.
24/7 support for critical rotating equipment. Our in-house lining and machining means we can deliver a repaired or newly manufactured bearing in days, not weeks.
Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting and failure analysis.
Repeated bearing failures are rarely about the bearing. We run root-cause analysis, rotordynamic simulations and bearing load calculations to identify the system-level driver and engineer it out, so the next bearing lasts.
- Root-cause analysis
- Rotordynamic simulations
- Bearing load calculations
- Performance optimisation
Lubrication contamination or loss, misalignment, overload, fatigue from vibration, electrical discharge and wiping from rotor-stator contact are the most common drivers.
We strip the old white metal, inspect and prepare the shell, re-line with centrifugal babbitt casting, machine to the original or optimised geometry, then inspect with ultrasonic and penetrant testing.
If the shell is intact and the geometry can be restored, repair is usually faster and cheaper. If the design itself is the issue, we recommend manufacturing a redesigned bearing.
Re-lining is the process of removing the worn or damaged white metal layer and re-bonding fresh babbitt to the bearing shell, followed by precision machining back to specification.
All bearing work is performed in our workshop in Stekene, Belgium. We collect from and deliver across Europe.
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