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Timken Secures Significant Order from India Mill
CANTON, Ohio -- The Timken Co. has received a significant bearing order from India-based Jindal Steel & Power Ltd. The order, worth more than $700,000 (USD), calls for Timken to provide Jindal Steel's Raigarh plant with two types of cylindrical roller bearings. Sponge iron facilities utilize a mixture of iron ore and coal to feed into an electric furnace for melting and steel making. This process is an alternative to the more commonly used raw material of scrap steel, says said J. P. Sinha, director of sales and marketing for India.The new bearings will be used on six new sponge iron kilns planned for the facility. The plant currently is in the process of setting up four of the new kilns and recently has launched a universal beam rolling mill designed to produce 120-meter rails; the longest manufactured in India."Timken earned the business because of its response to our needs at the mill," says Manoj Kumar, senior purchasing manager for Jindal Steel. "It offered a wide range of friction management solutions that will help us to keep the mill running at highly productive levels."In addition to supplying new bearings, Timken works with Jindal Steel to provide bearing repair and hands-on training for its personnel while drawing upon the expertise of its global engineering and research facility in Bangalore, India for continuous improvement and innovation.The Timken Co. is a global manufacturer of highly engineered bearings and alloy steels and a provider of related products and services with operations in 29 countries. Visit The Timken Co.: www.timken.com"