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Oil-Free Machinery® Foil Bearings Technology

Mass Production Ready

System Level Understanding

Mass Production Ready

Advanced foil bearing showing spring design

For over 20 years, our engineers have worked with beam spring journals bearings and optimized them around minimizing the complex manual steps that characterize other foil bearings.  No welds and no "false" precision crimping.  We can train any typical technician to assemble our bearings into Oil-Free Machinery™.  


Making 1 a working prototype is easy.  We appreciate the challenges to make a mass production ready design.  Our large volume manufacturing experience is unique.

Yield-Proof Springs

System Level Understanding

Mass Production Ready

Advanced state of the art foil bearings with visible springs

If your bearings come with a load capacity rating, ask what happens if you exceed it, and then decide if that is really a load limit or a 

LIFE LIMIT.


Traditional bump springs used in journal bearings will YIELD when you have high rotor motion.  Sometimes this is inevitable, such as in a vehicle application.  Or earthquake. Or compressor surge.  Or thermal transient.  The list goes on...


The beam springs are designed so that at maximum permitted travel, they will not yield.  This way, you have the same bearing before and after the transient event.  This is why advertising a journal bearing load capacity can be meaningless.  We consider our bearings to be near-infinite load capacity, limited by the steel cartridge, not the foil spring.

System Level Understanding

System Level Understanding

System Level Understanding

Foil journal bearings and foil thrust bearings

Our bearings are designed with system integration in mind for optimized Oil-Free Machinery™.  We do not promote any single metric as outstanding, but we do promote that as a system, we are incredibly robust.  If your bearing vendor is promoting journal bearing Load Capacity over other bearing integration, is that just a convenient value to look good on paper when selling bearings?  Is Load Capacity a performance metric you will utilize?

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World's Largest Foil Bearings

We designed the world's largest foil bearings for Xeca's 450 ton AC compressor.  Mass Production, Real-Life, Reliable.  Meet us at ASME Turbo 2025 to talk about your project.

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