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<p align="left" style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px currentColor;border-image:none;color:#111111;text-transform:none;line-height:20.8px;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:normal;orphans:2;widows:2;font-stretch:inherit;background-color:#FFFFFF;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"> <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px currentColor;border-image:none;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size:13px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-stretch:inherit;"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:12px;">The new MPAX brass cage from</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:12px;">&nbsp;</span></span><a style="margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px currentColor;border-image:none;color:#1D4B7B;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size:13px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-stretch:inherit;" href="http://www.schaeffler.com/" target="_blank"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px currentColor;border-image:none;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;font-stretch:inherit;"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:12px;">Schaeffler</span></strong></a><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px currentColor;border-image:none;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size:13px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-stretch:inherit;"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:12px;">&nbsp;</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:12px;">is a rib-guided, single-piece solid brass cage. It has a higher load carrying capacity for radial centrifugal forces (higher radial rigidity) than its predecessors and is also suitable for very high speed applications. In terms of the rail sector, cylindrical rolling bearings are particularly well suited to final drive gearboxes. Over time, the company expects the MPAX brass cage to gradually replace the previous cage types.</span></span> </p> <p align="center" style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px currentColor;border-image:none;color:#111111;text-transform:none;line-height:20.8px;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:normal;orphans:2;widows:2;background-color:#FFFFFF;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"> <span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:12px;">&nbsp;</span><img alt="" src="http://www.bearing.com.cn/membcentre/editor/attached/image/20181226/20181226125946_41184.jpeg" /> </p> <p align="left" style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px currentColor;border-image:none;color:#111111;text-transform:none;line-height:20.8px;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:normal;orphans:2;widows:2;background-color:#FFFFFF;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"> <br data-filtered="filtered" /> <span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:12px;">Schaeffler has improved the overall cage design by reinforcing the side edges, optimising side edge thickness and optimising the pocket corner radius position, resulting in reduced maximum stress on the pocket corner radii. Fatigue effects occur only when very large forces are applied. The cage is always rib-guided on one ring and the rollers can be removed.</span><br data-filtered="filtered" /> <span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:12px;">&nbsp;</span><br data-filtered="filtered" /> <span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:12px;">In addition, the company has developed a new ceramic insulation coating for rolling bearings (including cylindrical rolling bearings) with outside diameters from 70mm to 800mm. Applied to the outer ring, the new Insutect A J20G coating is a cost effective solution for preventing damage to bearings due to the passage of electrical current. The ceramic coating, which is approximately 700&micro;m thick, offers high capacitive resistance, high wear resistance and a disruptive (dieletric) strength of up to 5,000V DC. The coating helps prolong the life of lubricating grease and is suitable for bearings that operate in dry or damp conditions.</span><br data-filtered="filtered" /> <span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:12px;">&nbsp;</span><br data-filtered="filtered" /> <span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:12px;">The coating is applied using the plasma spray method and sealed. Coating variants are available from Schaeffler to suit a range of different bearing applications such as rail, wind turbines or industrial three-phase electric motors.</span> </p>