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AST Bearings is a leading supplier of precision bearings and related products, offering a range of value-added services such as engineering consulting, lubrication, and inventory management. The company serves various industries, including food and beverage, aerospace, and medical, focusing on optimizing product performance and customer partnerships. AST's expertise in bearing applications ensures that customers receive tailored solutions for their specific needs.

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AST Bearings Brochure For The Food and Beverage Industry.1

AST Bearings is a leading supplier of precision bearings and related products, offering a range of value-added services such as engineering consulting, lubrication, and inventory management. The company serves various industries, including food and beverage, aerospace, and medical, focusing on optimizing product performance and customer partnerships. AST's expertise in bearing applications ensures that customers receive tailored solutions for their specific needs.

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Value Beyond the Part™ About AST Bearings

AST is a leading supplier of precision bearings and bearing related


Beyond exceptional product quality, selection
and availability, AST’s commitment to providing products across a large spectrum of customers — primarily OEMs and

a full range of value-added services is what sets major distributors. In addition to our food and beverage products,
us apart from other bearing suppliers.
we also supply a wide range of industries such as aerospace, medical,

off-highway, green energy, robotics, high tech, industrial products


Engineering, Consulting and Design - Professional engineering
and many more.
services to solve challenging design problems.

Bearing Applications Engineering - Selecting exactly the right Since 1963, AST has been making our customers more competitive.
product and specifications for your application.
We develop strong partnerships with our customers; these
Bearing Lubrication and Relubrication - Custom lubrication for
partnerships are based on understanding our customers’ challenges
optimum performance.

Failure Analyses - Understand why bearings prematurely failed and providing innovative solutions. AST embraces our role as a

to remediate and prevent future occurrences. true product development partner. As precision bearing experts,

Inspection and Verification - AST has the equipment and AST recommendations go beyond bearing type, size and lubricant.
experience to provide inspection and product verification services
Meticulously focusing on your application from the cutting edge of
on the bearings we provide and on third party bearings.
bearing technology, our engineering team uses advanced tools to
Micro Grade Grease Plating™ - Unique AST lubrication process
for low startup and low running torque. ensure your best bearing choice.

Custom Packaging - Packaging designed to improve your


production and shipping efficiencies. For additional information, visit the company online at
Inventory Management - Assistance with JIT delivery and www.astbearings.com.
numerous other Supply Chain Management issues.
AST Bearings LLC · 222 New Road, Parsippany, NJ 07054 USA
Phone: (973) 335-2230 · Fax: (973) 335-6987

AST Bearings LLC · 3740 Prospect Avenue, Yorba Linda, CA 92886 USA
Phone: (949) 951-0221 · Fax: (714) 792-3884

Value Beyond the Part™


Value Beyond the Part™ For the Food and Beverage Industry
To learn more, visit astbearings.com
©2015 AST Bearings. All rights reserved. To learn more, visit astbearings.com
AST Bearings offers performance-proven products continuous washdowns and much more. All of this while under strict
for the food and beverage industry. regulations make selecting the right bearing of the utmost importance.
We offer a range of products that are optimized for use throughout the See below for a sampling of our
AST’s vast experience across the food and beverage industry makes us
manufacturing, processing and handling of food and beverage products most popular food and beverage
the definitive choice to help specify and select the best product to get the
bearing products, and visit
in addition to making end-products for commercial and consumer use.
job done. Our engineers and bearing experts will work with you to choose www.astbearings.com
Challenges in the food and beverage industry include extreme the right part for your unique application to ensure product performance for our full line of products.
temperatures, contamination, excessive moisture, chemical exposure, over the expected life or maintenance schedule of the product or system.

Products
Ball bearings can support moderate radial loads and Mounted bearings (pillow block bearings, flange bearing Bushings, or plain bearings, operate with sliding
moderate axial loads (parallel to the shaft). They can units and take-up bearings) are available in a range of motion between the moving surfaces. Bushings
operate at high speeds. Ball bearings with shields or mounting configurations, variety of materials such as cast are selected based on the rotating speed and the
seals for protection can be lubricated to last for the iron, stainless steel and thermoplastic, and with various applied load. Maintenance-free bushings do not
operating life. types of insert bearings including stainless steel types. require additional lubrication to operate.
Each mounted unit acts as a system to position the
bearing securely for reliable operation.
Roller bearings have high-radial load capacity. In Rod ends consist of a spherical ball mounted in
comparison to ball bearings, tapered roller bearings a housing, typically with male or female threads.
offer the best combination of radial and axial load Tapered roller bearings offer dimensional stability under They allow for oscillation/misalignment during slow
capacity. They operate at moderate to high speeds. heavy loads and are perfect for off-highway performance. rotation. Some rod end types require lubrication;
The lubrication method must be carefully considered They have a long life in harsh and contaminated conditions. other types are maintenance-free.
during the design phase when using roller bearings. Generally they are used for heavy-duty and moderate
speed applications.

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