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Custom Bearings

Custom Bearings | Custom Ball Bearings

Custom Bearing Design and Manufacturing

Schatz design and manufactures custom ball bearings. In addition, we offer a full line of standard bearings for aerospace, medical, and industrial applications.

Do you need to customize a standard bearing? Maybe you’re starting from scratch with a new concept. Either way,  Schatz has the engineering and production capabilities you need. Find out how we can design and manufacturer custom ball bearings for your specific application. 

For over 40 years, Schatz has supported unique bearing designs for challenging applications. Moreover, we  provide the best solutions to the world’s most demanding industries. For consistent, reliable performance, count on our precision bearings.

Custom Bearing Design

We don’t stop at the bearing design phase. We have the capabilities to prototype, analyze for performance, and provide full production allotment – even small lots – for your custom ball bearings. We’ll test your custom bearings extensively using industry-leading analysis tools. Our world-class design team analyzes bearing performance using several metrics including load and speed requirements and environmental factors that are sure to affect performance.

Schatz Application Engineers will work with you to modify bearing characteristics based on your system requirements including considerations like materials, surface treatments, size and number of rolling elements, ring sections, clearance/preload, cage design, seal design, anti-rotation devices, and lubrication holes.

Custom Bearing Manufacturing

Your Bearing Design & Production Partner.
Our state-of-the-art facility in Poughkeepsie, NY is AS9100 Rev D / ISO9001:2015 & Nadcap certified and can easily achieve tolerances measured in millionths of an inch. We’ll work with you to accomplish short design times and have no problem manufacturing small lots for our customers.

Our custom ball bearing manufacturing capabilities are as follows:

  • Up to 14” OD
  • 52100, 440C, BG42, M50, high nitrogen stainless
  • Up to ABEC 7 tolerances
  • A variety of retainer and closure options are available

Ask Schatz for Custom Ball Bearings