Pulp & Paper

Miether Bearing Products Inc.

Bearing Housings for the Pulp & Paper Industry

 

Miether Bearing Products has been serving this industry for decades. Our products are designed with performance and reliability features that enhance bearing performance while reducing downtime and costly maintenance concerns. We have the technical expertise to develop valuable solutions to the meet the most aggressive applications.

  bearing housings, split cap housings, flange cartridge blocks, solid pillow blocks
 

 
  bearing housings, split cap housings, flanged cartridge block, solid pillow blocks
   

Tough Operating Conditions

Pulp and Paper manufacturing processes require pillow block bearing housings, seals, and accessories that must withstand the most difficult conditions. Equipment used to produce these products are exposed to a wide range of temperature and humidity conditions, contaminants, and a variety of torque and loading situations.  

Miether Bearing Products has been associated with a variety of these processes, including wood preparation, pulping, forming and press areas, drying and calendaring. Miether’s custom bearing housing designs, bearing sealing configurations, and bearing assemblies provide fundamental solutions in an effort to improve productivity, reduce maintenance downtime, maintain the highest degree of safety, lower costs and sustain the environment. Our products help:

IMPROVE PRODUCTIVITY AND REDUCE DOWNTIME

  • Material weight/mass content allows for extended life cycles
  • SAF series “Flat Top” design with screwdriver pry slots to assist with cap removal
  • Solid reinforced rib designed pillow block housings to protect against impact and radial loads
  • Compact design to accommodate reduced footprint dimensions
  • Sealing technologies that retain lubricant internal to the bearing assembly and exclude foreign debris from entering the housing

MAINTAIN SAFETY

  • Special “safety colors” available to identify rotational moving equipment
  • Sealing technology to manage excessive lubricant on adjacent working surfaces

LOWER COSTS

  • Contact and Non- contact seals that keep contaminants from prematurely damaging bearing assemblies and shafts while reducing  lubricant usage
  • Compatible industry interchangeability standards using a common nomenclature for mounting and shaft center heights
  • Designs to minimize radial and shock loading situations

PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT

  • Repair program
    • Significant cost reduction
    • Extends bearing housing life
    • Reduced lead times vs. new
    • Ability to make changes/upgrades to enhance life cycle

Extreme Applications Require Extreme Solutions

PULP & PAPER APPLICATIONS

Wood Preparation:bearing housings, split cap housings, flanged cartridge block, solid pillow blocks


Soft and hard woods are debarked, chipped into usable sizes for the digester. Miether bearing housings, seals, and accessories can withstand these difficult operating conditions.

Pulp Preparation:


Continued processing and refining by the addition of chemicals, dyes, coatings and additives. Miether understands that maintaining dependable uptime is critical to the success of this extreme process, and has the products that deliver.

Because these converters are exposed to severe loading, vibration and shock conditions, Miether Bearing Products are a natural choice. 

Forming and Press Area:


You’ll also find Miether products hard at work during the forming process, where pulp enters the paper making machine and becomes a self- supporting web upon exit.  Because this area is exposed to extreme humidity, Miether Bearing Products are a natural choice.   

Drying and Calendaring:


The moist paper web continues to  be processed by the removal of additional water from the web and calendaring  exposes critical rotational elements to extreme heat, humidity, and speed conditions. Miether bearing products are ideal for  this demanding application.

SOLUTIONS

  • Heavy duty SAF, SAFS, SDAF and SDAFS pillow block housings, as well as solid MMW™ pillow block housings  with sizes ranging from 3” to 20+” shaft diameters are able to withstand loading, humidity, temperature, vibration and shock conditions, protect bearings, and maximize uptime.
  • Seal designs for extended life cycles, including traditional labyrinth (LER), O-ring contact (LER-O-ring), V-ring, double lip, triple lip, traditional taconite, special taconite triple seal designs, and Miether’s  patent pending Non- contact Protector® seals.
  • Adapter assemblies that simplify installation. Adapter assemblies are available in inch and metric sizes, as well as in mechanical and hydraulic fitted designs.

 

 

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