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Founded in San Francisco; manufacturing and repairing bearings
for automotive (motor) and diesel engines.
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WWII – Manufactured and repaired marine bearings in
support of
Allied war effort.
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Expanded capabilities for industrial and marine bearings,
becoming a qualified supplier to Western Gear Corp., Marine Division of Westinghouse Electric Corp., and General
Electric Co.
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Moved operations to larger manufacturing plant in South San
Francisco.
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Withdrew from automotive market, focusing on industrial, marine
and power generation markets.
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Became the U.S. representative of The Glacier Metal
Co., Ltd. of the U.K., for all Glacier non-automotive products – a 27 year affiliation.
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Adopted ultrasonic test procedures.
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Established an engineering department.
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Designed and introduced the Fluid Pivot® tilting pad
bearing & awarded U.S. and foreign patents.
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Celebrated 30 years of providing bearing repair services to
Pacific Gas & Electric.
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Began manufacturing gas turbine bearings for General Electric Co.
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Became a qualified supplier to the Power Generation Business
Unit of Westinghouse Electric Corp.
Began supplying bearings to GE for “Trident” submarine program.
Awarded improvement patents on Fluid Pivot® tilting pad bearing design.
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Appointed by the Power Generation Business Unit of
Westinghouse as:
The exclusive supplier of all new babbitted products (through 1994)
The exclusive licensee of Westinghouse for bearing repairs.
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Opened a new manufacturing and repair facility near Charlotte,
North Carolina.
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Became a qualified supplier to ABB (Asea Brown Boveri) Power
Generation, Inc.
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Appointed by ABB Power Generation, Inc. as the exclusive
licensee of ABB for bearing repairs.
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Westinghouse bearing repair license renewed and expanded to
include
all Westinghouse power generation bearings world-wide.
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Became a qualified supplier to Korean Electric Power Co.
(KEPCO).
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Supplied Fluid Pivot® for ABB’s Advanced Turbine
design.
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Provided on-site technical services for KEPCO at Kori
Nuclear Power
Plant, Korea.
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Celebrating our 80th year in business.
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