Experience
The longevity and performance of Timken wind energy products is largely based on our strengths in research and advanced technology. Our sales and application engineers, collaborating with wind energy design engineers, transfer this knowledge into innovative, value-added product solutions that provide competitive advantages for our customers. In Timken laboratories, engineers test enabling technologies related to advanced materials, raceway surface conditioning and manufacturing to determine how these and other enhancements affect system performance.

Innovation
Our technical breakthroughs have included engineered surfaces – coatings and finishes applied to bearing rollers and other surface-to-surface contact areas to enhance bearing fatigue life, corrosion resistance, speed capabilities and friction reduction.

Bearing raceways are frequently required to operate in lubricants that are contaminated with large-particle debris emitted by gears and other sources. These large particles dent bearing raceways and typically reduce the fatigue life of standard bearings. To combat these problems Timken has developed specialized bearings that help withstand these effects to maintain gear box reliability.

Along with developing new bearing and steel products for wind energy, we also offer a range of technical services related to the design and evaluation of mechanical components, including tribology, metrology, failure analysis, mechanical design and application testing.