RKB - A Passion for Bearings for over 70 Years - RKB Europe - #1

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For over seventy years, RKB group has been manufacturing rolling bearings for the heavy industry. Besides the high-tech profile of their products, the company stands out for a flexible and efficient organization, and for direct control on all manufacturing stages. The group has a turnover of 20 million Euros approximately for technological bearings only and a staff of six hundred people. Based in Balerna, Switzerland (Ticino Canton), RKB group has close to 90,000 square meter facilities in total, including 13,500 in the European headquarters and 65,000 in three production sites in China, directly controlled by the company. Another key strength and peculiarity of RKB is large availability from stock, offering one of the best product ranges in Europe in terms of variety and quantity. The warehouse, with a financial value of 35 million Euro approximately, is managed using a proprietary software (ASSM - Active Strategic Stock Management), designed to deliver competitive benefits in terms of global time-to-market reduction. RKB operations are not limited to Switzerland, as they involve Italy, Ireland, China, Japan, The Netherlands, Belgium, Vietnam and Mexico, with a distribution network covering all continents. Capital-intensive operations are carried out in the Swiss headquarters By virtue of the engineering and managing know-how acquired through many years of experience “in the field” and a vertically integrated production system, RKB solutions meet the requirements of a more and more demanding market, where bearings must ensure high reliability standards. RKB’s organization and production approach, based on the consistency and solidity of all activities, was analyzed in 2004 by the Tokyo Institute of Technology and the Switzerland Economy Business School, two of the most prestigious institutes in the technical and economic domain. All capital-intensive activities (including concept, design, engineering, fine-tuning, R&D, laboratories, quality control, guideline creation, protocols and procedures, sales, logistics and after-sales operations) were kept in the Balerna headquarters, in order to guarantee consistency and reliability in the long term, as well competitive prices, flexibility, quality and fast Profile 2 PubliTec by Laura Alberelli The industrial community is well aware of the critical role of rolling bearings as connecting elements between the static and dynamic worlds. In this domain, RKB solutions meet the strictest market specifications, with a unique range in terms of variety and quantity, available from stock. Overview of RKB rolling bearings. A passion for bearings for over 70 years