Innovations in the Electric Power Train, Backed by Decades of Experience
As electric vehicles make headlines, Timken engineers help auto suppliers deliver increasingly power-dense, fuel-efficient solutions.
Timken Acquires Cone Drive; Adds Precision Gearing Solutions to Its Growing Portfolio
The Cone Drive acquisition represents access to growth markets, such as solar, robotics, and food and beverage for Timken bearings.
Wheel bearings can reach 350˚F during a stock car race—negatively impacting grease life, car performance and finishing order.
Ben Pearch – Principal Application Engineer
Ben helped develop our lightweight RacePac® wheel end assemblies, which run 30 percent cooler than competing designs. Teams at the highest level of motorsports use Timken RacePac hub assemblies with enhanced fuel efficient bearings because when victory is determined by fractions of a second, every bit counts.
Cooler wheel end assemblies live here.
What we do makes impacts nearly every person on the planet. Our solutions help deliver power to our homes; enable travel by air, rail and road; and support the infrastructure that makes modern life possible. CEO Rich Kyle explains.
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We’re committed to staying true to our values and doing right by our associates, customers and all stakeholders. We’re proud to have been named one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere for a ninth time, and we will continue to live up to that standard everywhere we do business.
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"I love Timken because of its culture. I come to work every day and feel like I personally can make an impact. In this environment, I know that I have a voice in making decisions, and I go home feeling a sense of personal accomplishment."
"Wherever technical innovations happen around the world, you always see a need for the right powertrain and friction management technology. Timken is uniquely able to solve for the most challenging applications."
Ajay Das vice president – strategy and business development
Just Another Day, Scattering Neutrons: Timken Researchers Advance Ground-Breaking Work
Timken engineers Vikram Bedekar and Rohit Voothaluru talk about their research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the cutting-edge work they do every day.
Most of Ivanpah's 300,000 software-controlled mirrors rely on Cone Drive solar tracker drives to accurately position the heliostats and reflect sunlight to the tower from up to a quarter mile away. Over its 30-year lifecycle, Ivanpah is expected to avoid 13 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions—the equivalent of taking two million cars off the road.
Read how Cone Drive’s double-enveloping worm gears support solar power worldwide in this article from Kurt Gamelin, Cone Drive president.
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