CASE STUDY: THE ULTIMATE IN CORROSION RESISTANCE
Corrosion resistance is one of the most attractive features of ceramic bearings, and creating custom solutions is one of the most distinctive things Boca Bearings does. This success story shows how we built a bearing to perform in an extremely corrosive testing environment for a leading manufacturer of corrosion testing equipment.
THE SITUATION
Customer Overview: A decades-old company supplying the oil and gas industry with state-of-the-art corrosion testing equipment.
Problem: The company needed a bearing for a mixing head that could sustain 3,400 rpm while exposed to corrosive gases in a test environment at temperatures over 600°F.
THE ACTION
Bearing Selection: Boca Bearings met the exacting specifications with a special hybrid bearing featuring ceramic balls, cobalt races, and nickel retainers.
Application: The custom bearing allows the mixing head to spin at high speed while mixing corrosive gases in a corrosion test chamber.
Implementation: Boca Bearings’ purchasing team aligned its vendor community to secure consistent, dependable production of the custom bearings at volume.
THE RESULT
Solution: Working with the customer’s engineers, Boca Bearings forged a custom solution leveraging the anti-corrosive properties of ceramics, cobalt, and nickel, and became a reliable source to meet production schedules.
Impact: As oil and gas testing requirements grow more rigorous, Boca’s help developing next-generation test products benefits both the manufacturer and its customers.
Outcome: The manufacturer moved forward with production unabated and remains the industry’s premier supplier of corrosion testing equipment.
At Boca Bearings, we don’t just solve problems; we engineer solutions that perform.
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