CANTON, Ohio, Dec. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Timken
Company (NYSE: TKR; www.timken.com) announces the opening of its
new industrial service center in Raipur, in the state of
Chhattisgarh, India. The
30,000-square-foot facility provides gear drive and bearing repair
and upgrade services to meet growing customer demand in central
India.
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"We are pleased to open a dedicated service center with advanced
inspection techniques and machine tools that can promptly diagnose
and repair our customers' mission-critical equipment," said
Carl Rapp, Timken vice president of
industrial services. "The Raipur facility offers a 'one-stop-shop'
solution to our many customers in India's growing cement, primary metals, mining
and power generation sectors."
The Timken Company has been steadily expanding its industrial
services portfolio within the process industries segment, adding to
its existing bearing repair capabilities and leveraging recent
related service acquisitions, which include gearbox repair and
motor rewind, to further expand the geographic footprint of the
services business. The Raipur center is the company's first
industrial service center in India
to offer gear repair, and joins the Timken facility in Jamshedpur,
India, as the second offering
bearing repair. Timken also operates production bearing
facilities in Chennai and
Jamshedpur, as well as a research and technology center within its
Bangalore headquarters.
About The Timken Company
The Timken Company (NYSE: TKR; www.timken.com), a global
industrial technology leader, applies its deep knowledge of
materials, friction management and power transmission to improve
the reliability and efficiency of industrial machinery and
equipment all around the world. The company engineers,
manufactures and markets mechanical components and high-performance
steel. Timken® bearings, engineered steel bars and
tubes—as well as transmissions, gearboxes, chain, related products
and services—support diversified markets worldwide. With
sales of $5.0 billion in 2012 and
approximately 20,000 people operating from 30 countries, Timken
makes the world more productive and keeps industry in motion.
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