Nadella (Italy) is bringing its linear guide and motion control components product line direct to the North American market, via G.H. Binroth Company in Jackson, Michigan.

Nadella is best known as a manufacturer of needle roller bearings. However, the company also produces a wide range of linear guides, rail-guide bearings, and universal joint bearings. Nadella's high-load linear slides are found in medical equipment, the auto industry, industrial equipment, aerospace applications, robotics, material handling equipment, packaging machines, machine tools, woodworking machinery, feeding and assembly machinery, loading equipment and paper printing machines.

Traditionally, Nadella has focused on the European market, with manufacturing and service facilities in Stuttgart, Germany; Milan, Italy; and Vierzon, France.

The company's recent ownership history has been the primary roadblock in any prior effort to extend its focus beyond Europe.

In 2001, Nadella was acquired by The Torrington Company, then a division of Ingersoll-Rand.

In 2003, Timken acquired Torrington from Ingersoll-Rand, inheriting Nadella and several other Torrington niche bearing manufacturing operations. Nadella became Linear Motion Systems Division, but maintained the Nadella brand name. However, Timken later decided the Nadella brand and linear bearing operations were not a good fit with its traditional business units, and both were spun off in 2005 to Overseas Industries SpA. Overseas quickly renamed Timken Linear Motion Systems Division as Nadella SpA.

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Although it got rid of the Nadella brand name, Timken kept the actual Nadella needle roller bearing manufacturing operations, moving them under the Timken Torrington brand.

Shortly after that, Timken severed its Nadella-inherited ties with NRB Bearings India. NRB India had been founded in 1965 as a joint venture between Nadella and India's Sahney family.

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In early 2006, Timken slashed its the former Nadella Vierzon needle bearing workforce by a third, to 240 workers, citing the global automotive industry's continuing downturn. Timken also moved 17 engineers from Vierzon to its R&D facility in Colmar, France.

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After Overseas acquired the linear motion manufacturing and the Nadella brands, it renamed the Italian operation as Nadella SpA and the German operation as Nadella GmbH. The home office operations in Milan were renamed Nadella srl, and Overseas set up an umbrella organization, Gruppo Nadella SpA.

Two years later, in late 2007, private equity firm Mid Industry Capital SpA paid Overseas € 9 million for a 60% Stake in Gruppo Nadella SpA 5251R9N7.

Now, Nadella is expanding beyond Europe again. In addition to the new North American presence, Nadella has set up direct sales and warehousing locations in Japan, India, and China. It has a direct distribution presence in South Africa, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, and Malaysia.