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Now in our 86th year, Pioneer Motor Bearing Company supplies original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and end users in the power generation, industrial, and marine markets with engineering, manufacturing and repair services focused on fluid film bearings and seals for large rotating equipment. The scope of our expertise includes: , Engineering Services: , Rotordynamics evaluation, modeling and consultation; , Finite Element Analysis; , Bearing and housing design and development; , Machinery diagnostics and problem-solving; , Bearing and seal trouble-shooting for existing equipment, with turn-key hardware solutions; , Bearing theory, operations and maintenance training for nuclear, fossil fuel and hydroelectric power plant engineers; , Babbitt (whitemetal) journal and thrust bearing assemblies of virtually all types and styles; , Polytetraflouroethylene-faced ("PTFE") oil lubricated hydrodynamic thrust and journal bearings (as a licensee of Michell Bearings, a member of the Rolls-Royce Group); , Pioneer's proprietary Fluid Pivot ® tilting pad journal bearings, including Fluid Pivot "JS" designs with extraordinary dynamic alignment capabilities; , Babbitt labyrinth, hydrogen and other seals; , Manufacturing since 1920, now in a modern 35,000 sq. ft. plant near Charlotte, North Carolina, with all the machine tool capability you expect we would have as one of the leading bearing companies in North America; , Bearing Repair Services, providing standard or emergency repairs, upgrades or retrofits for OEMs and end users. We offer the oldest independent continuously operating bearing repair service in North America, since 1920 and are an authorized service facility for three original equipment manufacturers. Pioneer Motor Bearing Co. can satisfy the full spectrum of most customer requirements for fluid film bearings and seals. Our expertise is based on 85 years of experience, handed down from one generation to the next, including: , Our invention of the Fluid Pivot ® tilting pad journal bearing more than 35 years ago; , Close association for nearly 30 years with the Glacier Metal Co., Ltd. (formerly an independent company and Europe's largest manufacturer of plain bearings prior to corporate spin-offs); , Supplying the U.S. Navy and its major contractors with marine journal bearings as a qualified supplier to the U.S. Department of Defense , The first-ever bearing repair license from an OEM in the North American power generation market (Westinghouse Electric Corp., 1989; with Pioneer continuing today as a licensee of Siemens Westinghouse Power Corp.); , Exclusive bearing repair licensee of Alstom Power (successor in interest to ABB Power Generation), since 1993. In 2005, Pioneer Motor Bearing Company entered into a comprehensive alliance with Michell Bearings, a member of the Rolls-Royce Group and a renowned global name in the design, manufacture and service of hydrodynamic whitemetal and PTFE-faced oil lubricated thrust and journal bearing products. Click on the link above to learn how the Michell-Pioneer Alliance benefits our customers in North America and Europe. Today, Pioneer remains a stable, third-generation family owned and managed business, with an administrative and regional sales office near San Francisco, California, engineering technical services based near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and engineering, sales and production centered in our manufacturing plant near Charlotte, North Carolina.Pioneer Motor Bearing Co Address
129 Battleground Rd
Kings Mountain, NC
United States