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Robust bearing solutions for mechanical and plant engineering

Mechanical and plant engineering as a classical engineering science is a highly innovative industry today for the challenges of tomorrow.

With its extensive range of services, mechanical and plant engineering still represents the backbone of the German industry. Themes such as Industry 4.0, environmental protection, or energy efficiency are the industry's major challenges - and at the same time its greatest opportunity.

To meet these challenges, we work closely with our customers. In this way, we create precisely the solutions that sectors and industries need today and in the future. Together, we develop, design, and produce bearing solutions that support the development and efficient and reliable operation of machines and plants, some of which are extremely complex.

The continuous development of state-of-the-art processing technologies and the use of high-performance materials enable us to always offer our customers the optimum bearing design. This makes slewing bearings from Rothe Erde ideal components for bearing arrangements in machinery and plant engineering.

Applications in mechanical and plant engineering

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 Automotive Engineering

Our products, such as four-point bearings, turntables, and single-row wire race ball bearings, provide solutions for various automotive applications, including trams, lorry trailers, articulated buses, skips, fire brigade turntable ladders, heavy-duty transport vehicles, forklift slewing attachments, communal utility vehicles, and forced steered semitrailers.
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Gear manufacturing

In the area of gear manufacturing, Rothe Erde develops reliable bearing solutions for marine and rolling mill gears. These include single-row tapered roller bearings, cylindrical roller bearings, and tapered roller bearings.

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Smelting works engineering

We develop robust solutions for various applications in smelting works engineering. Our bearings are used in strip rolling mills, converter bearings, section mills, ladle turrets/swifters, lance slewing mechanisms, vacuum swivel joints, needle hole plug drilling machines, and continuous casting plants.
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Raw material extraction and processing

In applications for raw material extraction and processing, our spherical roller bearings play an important role, as do our double-row tapered roller bearings and thrust tapered roller bearings. These are used in crushing plants, vertical mills, tube mills, rotary kilns, and drilling rig units.
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General engineering

General engineering covers different areas for which Rothe Erde offers suitable solutions. Our rothe erde® slewing bearings and rings prove themselves every day in: Machine tools, robotics, swing bridges, waste compactors, water treatment, merry-go-round and pelletizing plates.

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Packaging and filling machines

Our products are found in bottle and can fillers, sealing machines, and film winders. The typical bearing solutions for these are four-point bearings, turntables, and profile bearings.

Our product portfolio

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rothe erde® slewing bearings

a rothe erde® slee drive

rothe erde® slew drives

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rothe erde® rings

a rolling bearing

psl® rolling bearings

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