Bearing specialist NKE Austria has published its new General Catalogue. With more than 1000 pages the fifth edition of the bearings catalogue contains comprehensive information in both English and German for industrial distributors as well as engineers and designers. The catalogue is available free of charge in print form and CD, in two languages, or as a download from www.nke.at/catalogue.

The new General Catalogue contains NKE?s updated product range of standard bearings, which are largely available from stock or at short notice. The catalogue?s technical section includes information to help select the right bearing types and sizes, design bearing locations, and about handling, mounting and dismounting, lubrication as well as tolerances. The product section contains product tables and information about bearing type and model-specific details for each product group. The new edition now contains additional technical data, such as service life calculations, fatigue limiting loads and thermal speed ratings.

Beside its standard catalogue products, NKE develops and produces special bearings to customer specifications. In addition to product development and application engineering NKE provides a full range of technical services and training. NKE?s products are distributed through 18 international representative offices and more than 240 distribution outlets in 60 countries.

NKE Austria GmbH is a bearing manufacturer with headquarters in Steyr, Austria. Founded in 1996 by a group of senior staff members of former company Steyr W?lzlager, NKE has about 180 employees and offers both standard and special bearings for all industrial applications. NKE?s core functions - engineering, product development, final processing of components, assembly, quality assurance, logistics, and sales and marketing - are centralised at its Steyr headquarters. The Steyr site is accredited to ISO 9001:2000 (design, development, production and distribution of bearings) and ISO 14001:2004 Its wide range of standard bearings are either available from stock or on short production lead-times. NKE also provides tailored products and solutions. In addition to product development and application engineering NKE provides a full range of technical services, consulting, documentation and training. NKE?s products are distributed through 18 international representative offices and more than 240 distribution outlets in 60 countries.

Jasvinder Singh Bhatia, NKE - India, Indore, MP. Tel: 073899-08787. Email: jasvinder.nke@gmail.com