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new hampshire ball bearings, inc.

NMB (USA), Inc. | Minebea Co., Ltd | Manufacturing | Markets

New Hampshire Ball Bearings, Inc., (NHBB), is one of the world's leading manufacturers of precision bearings and bearing products. NHBB offers a broad and diverse range of quality, precision bearing products to the aerospace, communications, computer, health care, defense, and instrumentation markets.

Since 1946, NHBB has produced high-quality, custom configured bearing products for a major segment of the aerospace industry and other industrial markets. Investments in facilities upgrades and capital equipment allow NHBB to maintain this industry leadership position and support its diverse line of quality military specification and industrial bearings, as well as special bearing configurations.

NHBB, with the dedication of all of its employees, produces the highest quality precision bearings available at competitive prices. Continued and on-going research has kept NHBB at the forefront of its industry since its modest inception.

NMB (USA), INC.

NMB (USA), Inc., is the North American headquarters of the Minebea Group of companies. The subsidiaries of NMB (USA) are: NMB Technologies Corporation; Hansen Corporation; and NHBB. Minebea's precision processing and tooling capabilities are the foundations that have made the company a leading global supplier of broad-based high technology products.

MINEBEA CO., LTD

Minebea Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan was established in 1951 as Japan's first specialized manufacturer of miniature ball bearings. Today, the company is the world's leading comprehensive manufacturer of miniature ball bearings and high-precision components, supplying customers worldwide in the information and telecommunications equipment, aerospace, automotive, and household electrical appliance industries.

As of March 31, 2003, the Minebea Group encompassed 54 subsidiaries and affiliates in 14 countries. The Group maintains 31 plants and 45 sales offices and employs a total of 43,000 people.

MANUFACTURING

Three modern automated plants in the United States, manufacturing bearings and bearing products while meeting high quality standards, have made NHBB a world leader in the production of quality custom bearing products. For more than 50 years, NHBB has developed a strong commitment to improve and expand its design and manufacturing capabilities. This commitment is being fulfilled through the application of advanced technology and a significant investment in automated tooling for machining, assembly, and test.

Precise testing equipment, housed in the most advanced environmentally controlled "white room" facilities, ensure the integrity of all bearings and bearing related products. Computer services provide a full range of capabilities, from bearing design to scheduling flexibility, allowing for prompt and efficient service.

For bearings to have the proper radial play, torque values, static and dynamic loads, and operating speeds, the basic dimensions of bearing components must be machined to exacting tolerances. Attention to these dimensional tolerance requirements, as well as superior performance in every aspect of product manufacture, has placed NHBB in the front of the industry, earning the confidence of customers throughout the world for quality and cost-effective products.

MARKETS

NHBB has provided product for applications on both military and commercial aircraft and defense systems for decades. While it continues to service and expand offerings in the aerospace market, NHBB has also used this experience to expand into other global markets where manufacturing high-quality product to tight tolerances is critical.

Examples of the markets where NHBB is involved include military and civil aircraft (airframe and engine); missile systems and other defense programs; machine tools; computers and electronics; alternative energy; and biomedical and healthcare markets.

NHBB products are used in a wide variety of applications including airframes, gas turbine engines, fuel pumps, actuators, gearboxes, mainshafts, aircraft instruments, gyros, machine tool spindle and support bearings, dental and surgical hand pieces, computer peripherals and electric motors. These are just a few of the thousands of applications where NHBB bearings and bearing products are found.