Visit at SKF São Paulo Friday 20110225

Padok visited SKF 25th of February. SKF has 110 sites which are distributed to 28 countries.SKF History of Brazil started in the middle of the second decade of last century, more precisely on January 27, 1915.

At that time, SKF had installed a store in Rio de Janeiro and carried imports of several types of bearings to supply the Brazilian market.

In June 1963, opened its first factory on the banks of the President Dutra Highway, and all these years many changes have occurred in the plant in Guarulhos, keeping pace with the country's development.

Today, SKF-generation plant in Brazil is installed on the Anhanguera Highway, 30 km, in Cajamar, São Paulo. Since August 2002, its sales offices are located at Rodovia Castello Branco, 30 km in the city of Barueri, São Paulo, together with Goodyear (Rubber Technical Products Division), forming the Power Transmission Alliance.

Since its inception, SKF holds a leading position for the high quality of its products, the technical assistance it has provided to its customers and the wide selection of bearings which remains available, plus a full line of related products such as seals, greases, assembly and disassembly tools, laser alignment and technical training through our technical department.

SKF in Brazil is part of the Swedish group SKF, which is a leading global bearing market, maintaining its sales through a large network of authorized distributors.

SKF vision is "to equip the world with SKF knowledge". And as a philosopy they use "everyday everybody everywhere looking for improvements." They work 350 days/year and 22hrs/day.

Thanks to SKF for their hospitality !!

 Danfang Chen KTH outside SKF

 Mathias Werner KTH

 Kristofer Elo Linköping University

 Pedro Neves KTH and our guide Ricardo Doimo Anderson at SKF