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We are always working on the next exciting project, using our clients’ requirements to tackle a new challenge, updating our equipment with latest technologies, continuing our professional development or producing new tooling with our own “in-house” pattern maker to produce to exact specifications.
Whatever we’re up to, keep up to date with the latest on our Bri-Mac Blog.
Bearing Housing for Clean Environments; what are the challenges?
Bearing Housing for Clean Environments; what are the challenges? If we say ‘clean room’ the image that may be conjured in your mind may be an operating room. White, bright, spacious and perhaps empty. Contrast this with the likely image that is provided with the words...
Computer Aided Design (CAD) and customised bearing Housings
Computer Aided Design (CAD) and customised bearing Housings Beginning in the 1960s in the aircraft industry, the use of computer-aided design (CAD) was later followed by using the technology in architecture, graphic design and many other industries. It has become...
Design and Manufacture of Cast Steel Bearing Housings
Design and Manufacture of Cast Steel Bearing Housings Creating motion in manufacture is a key element of efficient production. Using less effort to achieve more is a focus for engineers all over the globe and, with our dedication to sustainability in industry, there...
What is steel Casting and why is it important?
BRI-MAC ENGINEERING:BEARING HOUSING SOLUTIONS At Bri Mac, we are proud to design and manufacture our cast steel housing for a variety of applications in industry. If you are looking for a product that is made to tough it out in the harshest of work environments, the...
Flame Cut Steel SGB Bearing Housing
BRI-MAC offered a solution in fabricated steel as an alternative to an old cast iron bearing housing. Steel has several advantages over cast iron, including higher strength, better impact resistance, and improved ductility. It can withstand higher loads and provide...
F207-T Self Aligning Bearing Housings
After an inquiry from a new customer, we manufactured a large quantity of UCF207-T bearing housings made in STEEL. These bearing housings are machined from solid STEEL plate to suit a self-aligning UC207 bearing and replace the cheap cast iron alternative which have a...
Cast Steel solutions
When a leading French distributor sent us a very old set of drawings showing an old Bearing Housing with an angled part line, we got to work and created a new design. Known as the “Allibost” type of housing, the customer was using the SKF bearing: 23048CC with a shaft...
Special FSAFS 238 Housings
Following the successful appearance at XXXIII Convención Internacional de Minería –Acapulco in November 2019, we had the pleasure a few months later to supply a leading Steel Mill with a selection of Cast Steel Bearing Housings. Special FSAFS 238 Housings with...
Plain Bearings for the the Marine industry
Following a call from a customer in the Marine industry, we answered an urgent call to produce a large quantity of Spherical Plain Bearings in Stainless Steel Grade 316. With the emphasis on quality and tighter than normal tolerances, we turned these around in record...
XXXIII Convención Internacional de Minería – Acapulco 2019.
Taking up a prominent corner stand, we exhibited in Acapulco at the largest annual Mining Exhibition that Mexico has to offer. A successful 10 day visit, including several visits to long standing customers, concluded with a very successful attendance at the...
Crusher Housing
Having received a set of very old drawings from a UK bearing distributor, our CAD team set about re-engineering the old designs with a brief to make the bearing housing stronger. The work resulted in the full production of the Crusher Housing shown. Now boasting a...
SGB 3052 Cast Iron Bearing Housings
The SGB range of housings is not so popular these days but after a quick conversation with a UK distributor, their problems were solved. We got to work quickly and manufactured a pattern to produce a set of SGB 3052 Cast Iron Bearing Housings. Rapid delivery onto our...
Water-Cooled Bearing Housings
After many hours of R&D and intricate machining, we completed the second order of some special Water-Cooled Bearing Housings for a large Cement Plant in Cambodia. Our design team were tasked with the target of reducing the current unworkable working temperature to...
European Bearing Net Conference
October sees us exhibiting at the European Bearing Net Conference in Warsaw, Poland: 11-14 October. We have a wealth of European customers and taking part in this exhibition will enable us to reach out to them all and present our new range of products. We are looking...
Prestigious Order Ecuadorian Navy
This record month included the supply of a very prestigious order for the Ecuadorian Navy. We designed & manufactured a set of 16 off Special Oil Lubricated Bearing Housings manufactured in Cast Steel. From very old drawings dating back to 1963, we re-engineered all...
Cast Iron Bearing Housings SAF 23056
With only a very short maintenance window to work within, July saw us produce 2 off Cast Iron Bearing Housings SAF 23056. Machined to receive SKF bearing 23056K, we adapted existing pattern equipment and pushed through our machine shop in record time, these heavy...
Cast Iron Plummer Block Housings for a paper mill
Having received very old drawings from an old paper-making machine, we reverse engineered a set of 2 off Cast Iron Plummer Block Housings for a paper mill in Belgium. With intricate inner cores to accommodate an oil well, we designed a solution which enabled the...


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