SKF Products in Tanzania
Our range covers essential frictionless needs across industries.
Bearings
Conventional SKF ball bearing units are referred to as Y-bearing units. These units consist of an insert bearing (a single row deep groove ball bearing) with a convex sphered outside diameter, and a housing, which has a correspondingly sphered but concave bore.
Flange Unit Bearings (FY/UCF)
Perfect for limited space applications, offering ease of mounting and exceptional performance.
Flanged Y-Bearing Units (FYTB/UCFL)
Combining a bearing unit with a flanged housing ensures sturdy support and convenient installation.
Flanged Bearing Units with a Round Flange (FYC/UCFC)
Ideal for various applications, providing reliable support with a unique flange design.
Pillow Block Units (SY/UCP)
Designed for precise alignment and support, offering robust construction for reliable performance.
Pillow Block Bearing Units with a Flange (SYF/UCPA)
Offering the same reliability as SY units, with added convenience for mounting.
Take-Up Bearing Units (TU/UCT)
Adjustable units allow for easy shaft elongation or contraction compensation, ensuring optimal performance.
Versatile Insert Bearings (YAR, YET, YAT, YEL, YSA/UC)
Seamlessly integrate with our housing units, tailored to various application needs.
Deep Groove Ball Bearings
Versatile bearings suitable for a wide range of applications, offering low friction and high-speed operation.
Angular Contact Ball Bearings
Designed to accommodate combined radial and axial loads, providing excellent performance in high-speed applications.
Self-Aligning Ball Bearings
Offering superior misalignment capability, ensuring smooth operation even in challenging conditions.
Angular Contact Thrust Ball Bearings
Ideal for applications requiring high axial stiffness and precision.
Thrust Bearings
Designed to support axial loads in one direction, providing reliable performance and durability.
Cylindrical Roller Bearings
Providing high radial load capacity and excellent rigidity, suitable for heavy-duty applications.
Needle Roller Bearings
Compact, lightweight bearings offer high load-carrying capacity, perfect for applications with limited space.
Taper Roller Bearings
Designed to support high radial and axial loads, providing smooth operation and long service life.
Spherical Roller Bearings
Offering high radial and axial load capacity with the ability to accommodate misalignment, ensuring reliable performance in demanding environments.
Cylindrical Roller Thrust Bearings
Providing high thrust capacity and stiffness, suitable for heavy axial loads in limited space applications.
Tapered Roller Thrust Bearings
Offering high thrust capacity and stiffness, ensuring smooth operation under heavy axial loads.
Bearing Accessories, Adapter Sleeves, and Plummer Blocks
Bearing Accessories:
- Locknuts, lock washers, and locking clips: SKF’s range of locknuts, lock washers, and locking clips ensures secure and reliable bearing mounting, preventing unintended loosening and maintaining shaft alignment.
- Withdrawal sleeves: SKF withdrawal sleeves facilitate easy dismounting of bearings from shafts, simplifying maintenance procedures and reducing downtime.
Adapter Sleeves:
- Adapter sleeves for metric shafts: SKF adapter sleeves provide a secure and precise fit for bearings on metric shafts, allowing for easy installation and removal without the need for additional tools.
- Adapter sleeves for inch shafts: Designed for use with inch-sized shafts, SKF adapter sleeves ensure proper alignment and support for bearings in a variety of industrial applications.
Plummer Blocks:
- SNL and SE plummer blocks: SKF SNL and SE series plummer blocks offer robust housing solutions for bearings, providing exceptional stability and support in demanding operating conditions.
- SAF and SAW split plummer blocks: SKF SAF and SAW split plummer blocks enable easy assembly and disassembly, reducing maintenance time and costs while ensuring reliable bearing support.
- SBD and THD plummer blocks: SKF SBD and THD plummer blocks feature a modular design for easy customization, allowing for flexible housing configurations to meet specific application requirements.
Power Transmission
We offer you high-quality components for designing and maintaining a power transmission system, on fast turnaround. These include belts, chains, pulleys, sprockets, couplings, bushings and hubs, plus bolts and tightening systems. Each can be customised to meet your specific needs. A choice of bearings, seals and lubricants is also available, offering you the full spectrum of products from a single source.
Roller Chains
Robust and durable, SKF chains are engineered to deliver reliable performance in various industrial applications, ensuring smooth power transmission.
Sprockets
Precision-engineered sprockets are designed to work seamlessly with SKF chains, providing efficient power transmission with minimal wear and tear.
V-Belts
SKF V-belts offer superior flexibility and durability, delivering efficient power transmission while reducing vibration and noise in your machinery.
Pulleys
SKF pulleys are meticulously crafted to provide precise alignment and smooth operation, ensuring optimal power transmission and extended belt life.
Taperlock Bushes
Offering secure shaft locking and easy installation, SKF taperlock bushes provide a reliable solution for mounting pulleys, sprockets, and other components onto shafts.
Couplings
SKF couplings are engineered to transmit torque efficiently while accommodating misalignment and dampening vibration, ensuring smooth and reliable power transmission in your machinery.
Maintenance Tools
Every bearing has a certain service life potential. Research has shown that, for various reasons, not every bearing achieves it. Important stages which have a major impact on a bearing service life can be recognised during the bearing’s lifecycle. These stages are mounting, lubrication, alignment, basic condition monitoring and dismounting. The stages in a bearing life cycle are extremely important for achieving the maximum service life of the bearing. By applying the right maintenance practices and using the correct tools, you can considerably extend your bearing’s service life and increase plant productivity and efficiency.
Bearing Fitting Tools
Bearing Fitting Tool Kit TMFT 36: Simplify installation delivery with SKF's comprehensive fitting tool kit, ensuring precise and efficient mounting for optimal performance.
Induction Heaters
TWIM15, TIH 30, TIH 100, TIH 200: SKF's induction heaters provide safe and efficient heating for bearings and other components, facilitating easy installation and minimising downtime.
Alignment Tools
Shaft and Belt Alignment Tools TMFT 24: Achieve accurate shaft and belt alignments with SKF's alignment tools, ensuring optimal performance and reducing wear on machinery components.
Bearing Pullers
TMMR Reversible Two-Jaw Puller, TMMP Non-reversible Jaw Puller, Hydraulic Pullers, TMIP Series of Pullers, TMBS Long Pullers: SKF offers a variety of bearing pullers designed for easy and efficient removal of bearings, catering to diverse application needs.
Shaft Alignment Systems
TKSA 41: SKF's shaft alignment system simplifies the alignment process, ensuring precision and reliability for rotating machinery.
Belt Alignment Tools
TKBA 10, TKBA 20, TKBA 40: SKF's belt alignment tools enable accurate alignment of belt-driven systems, reducing wear and improving efficiency.
Lubrication
SKF lubricants are designed for your needs and tested for performance in real applications. Our experience with bearings, lubricants and applications helps us to offer the right lubricants for your applications and improve your overall lubrication scheme.
Condition Monitoring
Zero unplanned downtime is a vital target in many industries. By monitoring your critical equipment in the plant you can optimize performance, minimize costly unplanned downtime, and maintain the quality of machined parts. SKF offers a complete range of Condition Monitoring solutions to enable your journey in moving from time-based maintenance to predictive maintenance.
Electronic Stethoscope TMST 3
SKF's electronic stethoscope enables efficient condition monitoring by detecting and analysing machine vibrations, helping identify potential issues before they escalate.
Infrared Thermometers TKTL1I1, TKTL 21, TKTL 31, TKTL 40
SKF's infrared thermometers allow quick and accurate temperature measurements, facilitating proactive maintenance and preventing equipment failures.
Tachometers TKRT 10, TKRT 21, TKRT 31
SKF's tachometers provide precise RPM measurements, essential for monitoring equipment performance and detecting abnormalities.
Ball Bearings
Deep groove ball bearings are the most widely used bearing type and are particularly versatile. They have low friction and are optimized for low noise and low vibration which enables high rotational speeds. They accommodate radial and axial loads in both directions, are easy to mount, and require less maintenance than other bearing types.
Applications:
- Electric motors and generators
- Agriculture
- Material handling
- Industrial transmissions
- Food and beverage
- Industrial pumps
- Industrial fans
- Two and three wheelers
- Cars and light trucks
Thrust Bearings
SKF thrust ball bearings are manufactured as single direction or double direction (thrust ball bearings. They are designed to accommodate axial loads only and must not be subjected to any radial load. In addition to the bearings presented in this section, SKF supplies thrust ball bearings for special application requirements. This assortment includes bearings with Solid Oil and NoWear coated bearings.
Applications:
- Industrial fans
- Industrial pumps
- Metals
- Industrial transmissions
- Mining, mineral processing and cement
Roller Bearings
Rolling bearings support and guide rotating or oscillating machine elements – such as shafts, axles or wheels – and transfer loads between machine components. They provide high precision and low friction and therefore enable high rotational speeds while reducing noise, heat, energy consumption and wear. Rolling bearings are cost-effective and exchangeable machine elements that typically follow national or international dimension standards.
Applications:
- Turbines
- Electric motors and generators
- Agriculture
- Manufacturing plants
- Food and beverage
- Two and three wheelers
- Cars and light trucks
Thrust Roller Bearings
SKF cylindrical roller thrust bearings are designed to accommodate heavy axial loads and impact loads. They must not be subjected to any radial load. The bearings are very stiff and require little axial space.
Applications:
- Material handling
- Industrial transmissions
- Machine tools
- Trucks, trailers and buses