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PKB: Award Winning Supplier To Defense Supply Center Richmond (DSCR)
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PKB is a regular recipient of the Gold Medal for excellent quality and on-time delivery for US Military Defense Programs. Pacamor Kubar Bearings (PKB), is honored to be named by the U.S. Defense Supply Center Richmond a Best Value Gold Medal recipient for demonstrating exceptional quality and delivery performance to the U.S. Government. Michelle C. Skubic, Captain, SC, USN is Defense Supply Center Richmond’s Director of Aviation Supplier Operations for the Defense Supply Center Richmond Aviation Supply Chain.Captain Skubic stated that the award is presented, “because of your company’s exceptional Automated Best Value System score” and congratulated PKB “for a job well done …efficiently supporting the warfighters.”

To more fully support the needs of our country’s defense programs, Pacamor Kubar Bearings has expanded its ball bearing factory capabilities, with four important new product lines. PKB is now producing Full-Complement Ball Bearings, Thin- Section Ball Bearings, Separable Angular Contact Ball Bearings, and Non-separable Angular Contact Bearings.  PKB also offers legacy bearing products including Radial Ball Bearings, Cryogenic Ball Bearings, Metric Ball Bearings, Aircraft Bearings, and Specialty Ball Bearings.  PKB ball bearings are manufactured at our ISO 9001:2015 and AS9100D certified factory in Troy, NY. 

Ed Osta, President of Pacamor, stated, “Product quality from PKB is excellent. We’re a very customer focused business.  Customers have made it known that these four products are desirable to them.  Our customers are our greatest asset and our existence depends on responding to their ever changing needs.  These four new products that we’re introducing today are a direct result of specific customer requests.”          

Pacamor Kubar Bearings(PKB) continues to invest in its factory with the recent addition of a Cincom A32 lathe to its primary turn capabilities. This state of the art lathe expands machine capacity and production efficiencies within the Troy, NY ball bearing factory.  The Cincom A32 is reputed to be the world’s fastest Swiss type CNC automatic Lathe.  The new lathe enables PKB to shorten its uniquely compact factory lead time of 8-10 weeks for standard bearings and respond more quickly to new and unique ball bearing requests from the aerospace community.  Enhanced products, as a result of this new lathe, will include shaft and bearing assemblies and expedited responses to time sensitive prototype requests.  

 

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Customer Testimonial – PKB Bearings Outperform Competition In Flowmeter Application
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Customer Testimonial – Ken Hoffer, CEO, Hoffer Flow Controls

 

Ken: “As you know for most of our meters we have used your bearings exclusively for a number of years, many are used on air calibrations for all sorts of gases and a large portion are used on liquid cryogenic such as LIN, LOX, LAR, LH2 etc.

“We used to advise after 3 months to a year that we recommend changing the bearings; several years ago we stopped changing the bearing. We have three people that calibrate and certify the cryogenic flowmeters all over the world, from China to South Africa, to Europe, Brazil as well as in the USA and Canada.

“We have not changed a bearing for years and have had no failures due to bearing wear, as a matter of fact we have found that when we do a repair for other reasons that a new set of bearing has a shift to the K factor, but when we go back to re-certify that the bearing has shifted back exactly to the original K factor which means that all the bearing are exactly the same which is amazing!!”

PKB: “Can you help us understand a little more about the “K factor”? 

Ken: “The K factor is the number of pulses in a unit of measure I.E. gallons, liters etc. It is obtained by adding the individual K-factors for all the calibration points, typically 12 with the top and bottom points repeated, then divide the total by 12 and the resulting number will be the average K factor or number of pulses per unit. The meter will constantly reproduce this average K-factor for many years. 

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PKB Is Proud To Be Part Of The James Webb Space Telescope
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The James Webb Space Telescope (sometimes called JWST) is a large, infrared-optimized space telescope. The project is working to a 2018 launch date. Webb will find the first galaxies that formed in the early Universe, connecting the Big Bang to our own Milky Way Galaxy. Webb will peer through dusty clouds to see stars forming planetary systems, connecting the Milky Way to our own Solar System. Webb’s instruments will be designed to work primarily in the infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum, with some capability in the visible range. 

The James Webb Space Telescope Photo Courtesy of Northrop Grumman

The James Webb Space Telescope
Photo Courtesy of Northrop Grumman

Webb will have a large mirror, 6.5 meters (21.3 feet) in diameter and a sunshield the size of a tennis court. Both the mirror and sunshade won’t fit onto a rocket fully open, so both will fold up and open once Webb is in outer space. Webb will reside in an orbit about 1.5 million km (1 million miles) from the Earth.

The James Webb Space Telescope was named after the NASA Administrator who crafted the Apollo program, and who was a staunch supporter of space science. – http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/

Pacamor Kubar Bearings (PKB) extremely high precision specialty ball bearings are found in many challenging aerospace and defense applications. PKB’s specialty ball bearing designs are found in near-earth and cryogenic missions, life-sustaining survival suits for space exploration, public and private rocket launches and well known NASA space projects.

PKB manufactures a wide variety of specialty ball bearings for space vehicles, guidance systems, array mechanisms, flow meters and flow control units that are used in some pretty extreme environments like the James Webb Space Telescope or JWST.

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