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Europes
Leading Manufacturer of
Automotive Plain Bearings
Glacier Vandervell European Profile
The bringing together of The Glacier Metal Company, SIC SA, Vandervell Ltd and Clevite srl,
created Europe’s most advanced manufacturer of automotive thinwall plain bearings - Glacier
Vandervell Europe.
These businesses have been acquired by the Dana Corporation ofToledo, Ohio, USA, and are
now part of The Dana Engine Systems Group.
This integration,including three of the most famous brand names in the bearings industry,Glacier,
Vandervell and Clevite,has given us an enviable reputation for technological innovation and product
leadership - exemplified by an abundance of industry standard materials and products.
Glacier Vandervell Europe operates in close association with its sister organisation Glacier
Vandervell North America and Glacier Industrial Bearings based in Heilbronn, Germany
which together form one of the world’s largest manufacturers of plain bearings.
Our aim is to provide World Class performance and to support our customers wherever they
are located.
As an organisation committed to This has headquarters near Rugby, bronze strip and to specialise in
providing optimum satisfaction to England, where fundamental and tri-metal half bearings.
its customers, Glacier Vandervell new development concepts are
Europe has sited its factories and carried out along with the develop- In France, the Annecy factory has a
offices in locations from which it ment of advanced calculational similar product range to Kilmarnock
can best serve its markets. The methods for functional analysis. while Dieuze concentrates on
five factories and five sales and The Organisation’s Technical manufacturing precision hydraulic
engineering offices are based in Centre at Kilmarnock, Scotland, is gear pump bearings.
Britain, France, Italy and Germany. well situated for the shorter term
incremental developments and Our plant at Trento, in Italy, manu-
Glacier Vandervell Europe’s, largest also houses the comprehensive factures half bearings, bushes and
factory, in Kilmarnock, Scotland, testing facilities required for thrust washers, mainly for the
specialises in bearings produced product development. Italian motor industry, in aluminium
from aluminium and white metal Both these units liaise with the and bronze bi and tri-metals.
based bi-metals, sintered bronze business technical support teams
and steel backed polymers. in both Europe and the United In addition, sales and applica-
States. tions engineering support is
The material, product and process provided to our customers from
development activities are under- The Whitehill factory is also located our offices at Northwood Hills
taken by the Glacier Vandervell in Scotland and was built in 1993 in England, Annecy and Clichy
Bearings Group Research & to become the group’s centre for in France, Trento in Italy and
Development Organisation. the production of cast lead Heilbronn in Germany.
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