COMPANY NAME & MOTTO CORPORATE GUIDE

COMPANY NAME

Our company name “RKB” puts together the roots of our history and the internationality of our vision. In fact, the acronym “RKB” stands for “Roulement”, “Kugellager”, and “Bearing”. Roulement and Kugellager, respectively the French and German expressions for the English word “bearing”, have been chosen because we are the Swiss rolling bearing manufacturer, and in our country French and German represent the two main idioms. Then we have decided to complete our company name with the term “bearing”, because English, the most popular language in international relations, well emphasizes the world-class...

In such a complex and full of barriers sector as the bearing industry is, where almost the 80% of the world market shares is held by a kind of cartel of major brands, RKB Bearing Industries represents the only real innovative and fully vertically integrated player on the scene. Over the years, our Group has managed to become popular in the bearing industry as “The Alternative Power”. We are globally considered “alternative” because we scrupulously observe and apply the ethical, economic, and organizational principles depicted in our pioneer and unmatched business model. Then, the word “power”...

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