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The eBearing News
September 20, 2005
SKF Building Second
Bearing Factory in Indonesia
copyright © 2005 eBearing Inc.
SKF AB (Sweden) announced it will build a second bearing manufacturing plant outside
Cakung, Jakarta Timur, Indonesia, alongside its existing facility built in 1997.
The new plant, scheduled to come online in mid-2007, will produce deep groove ball bearings to meet
fast-growing demand from Asia's diverse two-wheeler market. The second facility will essentially
double the company's production capacity there.
SKF said the plant will cost in the neighborhood of SEK 200 million (USD $26 million) and
eventually employ more than 200 workers.
Worldwide, production of various two-wheelers hit 38 million in 2004, but more
than 80% were sold in Asia. Through 2007, SKF said the two-wheeler market will continue to
grow quickly -- by as much as 25%, or reaching almost 48 million.
SKF is the market leader in bearings to the Asian two-wheeler OEMs, supplying
companies such as Honda, Suzuki, Kawasaki, Yamaha,
Piaggio, Vespa, and Bosowa.
Currently, SKF manufactures ball bearings for the Asian two-wheeler market at its plants
in India and Indonesia. But the second Indonesian plant is needed to meet demand or risk losing
its two-wheeler market leadership position.
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- by Bruce A. Carr
from individual research,
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