Few industries can compare with the harsh working conditions in steel and other metal plants. Temperature and velocity limits. Heavy and continuous impact loads. Grinding dust, corrosive chemicals, and high humidity. The combination of these conditions can degrade equipment, cause unplanned outages, and make effective maintenance difficult under the best of circumstances.

In the steel industry, bearings can be used in a variety of plants and equipment used in upstream and downstream processes: from feedstock yards to steelmaking, rolling and refining processes. A variety of bearings are used in plant and equipment.