Michell Bearings (India) Pvt Limited

About Us

Michell Bearings is the premier designer and manufacturer of self-contained whitemetal (or babbitt) and PTFE faced hydrodynamic bearings for a wide range of marine and industrial applications.

Marine applications include the supply of equipment for naval vessels, the cruise / ferry industry, merchant ships and offshore oil / gas. It was in 1905, nineteen years after Osborne Reynolds had considered the lubrication of plane surfaces, that AGM Michell obtained a solution to Reynolds' equation which took account of side leakage. In the same year, Michell patented a type of bearing in which the load was carried upon hydrodynamic oil films generated by a series of pivoting whitemetal (or babbitt) faced pads. The principle was applied to both thrust and journal bearings and is now universally known as the Michell Bearing.