NSK Completes Acquisition of Brüel & Kj?r Vibro
Time：04 Mar,2021
<p style="text-align: center;"><img title="1614826116496844.jpg" alt="4.jpg" src="/ueditor/php/upload/image/20210304/1614826116496844.jpg"/></p><p>NSK Ltd. has completed the acquisition of the global condition monitoring system (CMS) business known as Brüel & Kj?r Vibro (B&K Vibro) from Spectris Plc., in line with the initial announcement made on December 10, 2020.</p><p><br/></p><p>The acquisition will accelerate development of NSK's business platform in the growing CMS market, and further strengthen the company's ability to respond to demand for automation, labor savings, smart technology, and environmentally sustainable solutions.</p><p></p><p>NSK's main products, including bearings, ball screws, and linear guides, are vital components that directly affect the function and performance of machinery. NSK's wealth of data and technology related to these components will prove to be invaluable in enhancing and developing B&K Vibro's next-generation predictive maintenance systems and delivering new value to the market.</p><p style="margin: 20px 0px; line-height: 1.3333; padding-bottom: 2px; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; box-sizing: border-box;">Comment from Nogami Saimon, NSK Ltd. Senior Executive Vice President</p><p>Bringing B&K Vibro into the NSK Group marks the start of an exciting adventure to drive innovation in the rapidly growing CMS market. Both NSK and B&K Vibro solutions are key to ensuring operational stability in mission-critical infrastructure in wind power, hydro power, manufacturing, and other sectors that influence the daily lives of hundreds of millions of people. We will draw on our synergies to maximize our CMS business platform and achieve sustainable growth over the long term</p><p style="margin: 20px 0px; line-height: 1.3333; padding-bottom: 2px; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; box-sizing: border-box;">Comment from Marcel Van Helten, Brüel & Kj?r CEO</p><p>Being a part of one of the leading global bearing suppliers for the industrial sector is opening new opportunities where we can capitalize on to further growth B&K Vibro. It means expansion in the field of innovation and technology development but also on leveraging our capabilities to offer better predictive maintenance capabilities to the current and new NSK customer base.</p><p class="heading heading--02" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.3076; font-size: 2.2rem; font-weight: 400; box-sizing: border-box;">About B&K Vibro</p><p><p>Representative</p><p>CEO Marcel van Helten </p><p></p><p><p>Business Scale</p><p>Sales €52.5 million (about ?6.5 billion) </p><p></p><p><p>Number of Employees</p><p>Approximately 220 </p><p></p><p><p>Main Business</p><p>Manufacture and sale of condition monitoring devices and sensors, condition monitoring services, etc. </p><p></p><p><p>Sales by Industry</p><p>Wind power (42%), oil and gas (16%), hydro and thermal power (7%), other (35%) </p><p></p><p><p>Sales by Region</p><p>Europe (43%), Asia (29%), the Americas (22%), other (6%) </p><p></p><p><p>CMS Installations</p><p>Wind power: Over 30,000<br/>Hydro power: Over 800<br/>LNG and oil refining: Over 10,000 </p><p></p><p><br/></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p>
