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Barden’s bearing
日期：2025-09-13 07:56
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A significant growth in production output to about 4,000 units a week has been a massive contributor in The Barden Corporation pruducing its one-millionth deep groove ball bearing.
Precision bearings manufacturer, The Barden Corporation (UK), has reached an important milestone after the company’s production plant in Plymouth, UK, produced its 1,000,000th deep groove ball bearing for use in dry vacuum pumps.
Last month, the 1,000,000th bearing rolled off the production line at Plymouth. The plant marked this milestone by holding a celebration, involving speeches from senior management and the presentation of commemorative awards to manufacturing staff.
Manufactured at the Plymouth plant since 2002, Barden’s deep groove ceramic ball bearings are custom-engineered specifically for manufacturers of dry vacuum pumps. These bearings ensure high reliability of the pumps during critical production process, including the manufacture of semiconductors, solar panels and flat panel displays, as well as for vacuum degassing applications in metal processing.
“Reaching one million vacuum pump bearings is a tremendous achievement for Barden and is an added incentive for the Plymouth plant to keep up the excellent work,” said Nick Dowding, Business Development Manager at The Barden Corporation (UK) Ltd.
Since 2002, production of bearings for dry vacuum pumps at Plymouth has grown significantly. In 2012, production peaked at about 4,000 units per week. “End users of vacuum pumps require high reliability pumps. Under no circumstances can these pumps fail due to unreliable bearings, which would cause costly stoppages to their production processes. In semiconductor manufacturing, for example, these types of breakdowns can result in thousands of pounds of lost production,” states Dowding.
Flat panel displays, solar panels and semiconductors all require production processes that are clean and free of any contaminants that may adversely affect the process. Therefore, working chambers are normally flooded with gas and evacuated using dry vacuum pumps in order to create a working vacuum.
In semiconductor manufacturing, the etching tools need to operate in a vacuum chamber whilst they lay down miniature grids of electronic circuitry to silicon wafers. This type of operation is so intricate that all contaminants must be removed from the production chamber before work can begin. It is therefore common to see rows of dry vacuum pumps installed under production floors in many semiconductor manufacturing plants.
Precision bearings manufacturer, The Barden Corporation (UK), has reached an important milestone after the company’s production plant in Plymouth, UK, produced its 1,000,000th deep groove ball bearing for use in dry vacuum pumps.
Last month, the 1,000,000th bearing rolled off the production line at Plymouth. The plant marked this milestone by holding a celebration, involving speeches from senior management and the presentation of commemorative awards to manufacturing staff.
Manufactured at the Plymouth plant since 2002, Barden’s deep groove ceramic ball bearings are custom-engineered specifically for manufacturers of dry vacuum pumps. These bearings ensure high reliability of the pumps during critical production process, including the manufacture of semiconductors, solar panels and flat panel displays, as well as for vacuum degassing applications in metal processing.
“Reaching one million vacuum pump bearings is a tremendous achievement for Barden and is an added incentive for the Plymouth plant to keep up the excellent work,” said Nick Dowding, Business Development Manager at The Barden Corporation (UK) Ltd.
Since 2002, production of bearings for dry vacuum pumps at Plymouth has grown significantly. In 2012, production peaked at about 4,000 units per week. “End users of vacuum pumps require high reliability pumps. Under no circumstances can these pumps fail due to unreliable bearings, which would cause costly stoppages to their production processes. In semiconductor manufacturing, for example, these types of breakdowns can result in thousands of pounds of lost production,” states Dowding.
Flat panel displays, solar panels and semiconductors all require production processes that are clean and free of any contaminants that may adversely affect the process. Therefore, working chambers are normally flooded with gas and evacuated using dry vacuum pumps in order to create a working vacuum.
In semiconductor manufacturing, the etching tools need to operate in a vacuum chamber whilst they lay down miniature grids of electronic circuitry to silicon wafers. This type of operation is so intricate that all contaminants must be removed from the production chamber before work can begin. It is therefore common to see rows of dry vacuum pumps installed under production floors in many semiconductor manufacturing plants.
