Welcome to HB Bearings
Brief History
Back in 1972 our late chairman Norman Hirst had the initiative to manufacture and modify bearings in low volume. The timing was perfect as major manufacturers continued to reduce and amalgamate their product ranges, and sadly some went out of business altogether. It became difficult to obtain many types of bearing. There is still today a lot of specialised machinery in use which requires a source for these types of bearings. HB Bearings stock many types of “difficult to source” metric and imperial bearings of their own manufacture.
- specials
- new designs
- out of production
- obsolete
- motorsport bearings
If you only have limited information HB Bearings has an archive of bearing information. It would not be an exaggeration to say this is probably the best and most comprehensive in Europe.
The CNC grinding machine pictured here is just one example of our continuing investment in the Company. This machine is capable of grinding complex profiles. Used for manufacturing larger batch quantities. Maintains quality throughout the batch. CNC grinding achieves high accuracy of concentricity.