Timken bearings, sold & sourced by Dalton Bearing Service
Dalton Bearing Service supplies Timken bearings and Timken power transmission parts from our counter at 601 S Glenwood Ave in Dalton, Georgia. Timken is best known for the tapered roller bearing, and it is still the name most maintenance buyers reach for on a tapered roller bearing cup and cone. The line goes well past that: spherical roller bearings, cylindrical roller bearings, precision cylindrical roller bearings and thrust bearings on the roller side, and radial, angular contact and precision ball bearings on the ball side.
We also source Timken spherical plain bearings (radial, radial with lip seals, and angular contact thrust), precision bearings for machine tool spindles and ball screw supports, crossed roller bearings, aerospace bearings, and integrated bearing assemblies such as AP and WHEEL-PAC units. For housed units, Timken offers spherical roller solid block units, SAF split pillow blocks, SNT plummer blocks, Type E tapered roller housed units and ball bearing housed units. On the automotive and trailer side, Timken makes AquaSpexx trailer wheel bearing kits, hub units and driveline kits.
Timken also owns several brands we carry on their own pages. Fafnir is Timken's ball bearing and ball bearing housed unit brand. Lovejoy makes jaw couplings and universal joints. Drives makes roller chain and ag chain, Carlisle belts came into the group in 2015, Cone Drive makes worm gear speed reducers, and Rollon makes linear rails and guides. If you are matching an old Torrington part number, see our Torrington page: most of that business came to Timken in 2003, but the needle roller bearing line later went to Koyo.
Send us a Timken part number, a photo of the box or cup stamp, or the shaft and housing sizes, and a real person will find it and give you a price. If the exact number is on backorder, we will say so up front and offer a cross-reference.
Timken ownership & history
Henry Timken patented a tapered roller bearing in 1898, and in 1899 he set up the Timken Roller Bearing Axle Company in St. Louis to make axles for carriages and wagons. In 1901 the company moved to Canton, Ohio, to be closer to the growing auto industry. It has been based in the Canton area ever since and is now headquartered in North Canton. Timken began making its own steel in 1917. In 2014 it spun the steel business off as a separate company, TimkenSteel, which is now called Metallus.
Timken's largest acquisition was The Torrington Company, bought from Ingersoll-Rand in February 2003 for about $840 million. The deal brought in Torrington's needle and heavy-duty roller bearings and the Fafnir ball bearing brand. Timken sold the needle roller bearing business to JTEKT (Koyo) at the end of 2009. Since 2011 Timken has also built a power transmission group, adding Philadelphia Gear (2011), Drives (2011), Carlisle belts (2015), Lovejoy (2016), Cone Drive and Rollon (both 2018) and Diamond Chain (2019), plus a string of lubrication, linear motion and gearing companies since then.
- 1898 Henry Timken patents a tapered roller bearing
- 1899 Timken Roller Bearing Axle Company formed in St. Louis
- 1901 Moves to Canton, Ohio
- 2003 Acquires Torrington (with Fafnir) from Ingersoll-Rand
- 2009 Sells the needle roller bearing business to JTEKT (Koyo)
- 2011 Acquires Drives LLC and Philadelphia Gear
- 2014 Steel business spun off as TimkenSteel (now Metallus)
- 2015 Acquires the Carlisle belts business
- 2016 Acquires Lovejoy
- 2018 Acquires Cone Drive and Rollon
Timken lines we stock
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Related brands
FafnirTimken's ball bearing brand, part of the 2003 Torrington deal
TorringtonAcquired by Timken from Ingersoll-Rand in 2003
LovejoyTimken coupling brand since 2016- DrivesTimken roller chain brand since 2011
- Cone DriveTimken gear drive brand since 2018
- RollonTimken linear motion brand since 2018
- Carlisle BeltsBelt business acquired by Timken in 2015
KoyoBought Timken's Torrington needle bearing line in 2009
FAGRelated brand
RollwayRelated brand
Why buy Timken bearings from Dalton Bearing
Dalton Bearing Service has kept plants running from Dalton, Georgia since 1946. We are an independent industrial distributor, not the manufacturer — which means we can quote Timken bearings straight from stock or our supplier network and, when a number is backordered or discontinued, offer a checked cross-reference — often from FAG, Fafnir or Koyo. Send a part number, a photo of the nameplate, or just the dimensions, and a real person gets back to you with price and availability, usually the same day.
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