Many of the large ceramic bearing manufacturers are located overseas, in places like Japan, Germany, and Sweden. In fact, the eight largest bearing manufacturers in the world are not in the United States. If you’re looking for bearings from a large, well-known company, you unfortunately don’t have many stateside options. In the United States, you’ll find mostly smaller bearing companies, including specialty bearing companies like CBR, which specializes in ceramic hybrid bearings.
Why does it matter where your bearings are manufactured?
One of the main reasons you might want to purchase bearings made in the United States is for shorter turnaround times. Under normal circumstances, bearings coming from across the ocean could take several weeks, or even more than a month, to get to you. But as you probably know, these are not normal times. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as other factors, supply chains have been completely disrupted in the last year and a half. Items of all types coming from overseas are experiencing severe delays. The ceramic hybrid bearings you order from a bearing manufacturer in Japan could sit at the Port of Long Beach for who knows how long before they are unloaded from their shipping container and delivered to you!
This isn’t the case when you order ceramic hybrid bearings from CBR Bearing. We manufacture our bearings right here in our Fallbrook, California bearing lab.
We know it’s often the case that when you need new bearings for your equipment, you need them now! You don’t want to wait weeks or months to get your equipment back up and running after a bearing failure. When you order bearings from CBR, we can often ship them out same day, and have them to you within the week. We have a large number of bearings already on our shelves, ready to ship out—even some of the larger bearings that are often used in industrial electrical equipment that other bearing companies don’t keep in stock.
If you need something that we don’t currently have in stock, we can manufacture it quickly and get it out to you in a timely manner. Contact us with the details of the exact bearing you need, and we can give you a good idea of what the turnaround time will be.
All of this is to say, overseas bearing manufacturers aren’t your only option! There are plenty of companies in the United States making bearings who would be happy to take care of your needs. And if your needs happen to include ceramic hybrid bearings, CBR would love to be your bearing supplier! Contact us to place an order or to have any of your questions answered about our products.
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