Unique Calotte Bearing for Mining Conveyor Bridge Application is Largest Ever from Federal-Mogul Powertrain DEVA
Maintenance-free component is 1.25 m in diameter and carries a vertical load of 35,000 kNStadtallendorf, Germany, 20 October 2016 … Federal-Mogul Powertrain, a division of Federal-Mogul Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: FDML) has supplied its biggest-ever spherical calotte bearing, at 1.25 m in diameter. The bearing will be used in the largest moving machine in the world, a conveyor bridge produced by the TAKRAF group for surface mining. The maintenance-free bearing is lined with deva.bm®, one of a range of self-lubricating bearing materials developed by Federal-Mogul DEVA. It will support