When automotive is your only focus, you work differently. You get closer to the challenges customers face and can respond faster as the industry changes.
And it is changing fast. Development cycles are getting shorter, while new technologies are creating engineering challenges that barely existed a few years ago. SKF Vertevo combines the speed of a focused automotive company with more than a century of engineering knowledge.
Decades of performance data, material science and application experience give our engineers a deep base to work from. That knowledge strengthens our simulation models, improves the quality of our predictions and helps us develop solutions for specific applications.
Focus gives us speed. Our automotive teams work close to customers, with access to specialist expertise across the wider organisation when needed. Decisions can be made closer to the engineering challenge, with fewer layers between the problem and the people solving it.
That combination helps us move faster on some of the industry’s toughest engineering challenges, from electrification and digital engineering to advanced materials and motorsport.
Years of application knowledge
100+
Years of accumulated bearing performance data and technical reports
50+
Reduction in wheel end bearing friction over the last decade
65%
Time-to-market reduced for accelerated OEM programmes
50%
Our active role in motorsport gives us access to high-performance validation of new engineering. Here our bearing solutions are put to the test under extreme demands for performance, precision, endurance and reliability. What we learn in racing helps shape solutions for passenger vehicles, commercial vehicles, and two- and three-wheelers.
Experts at your side
When a customer brings us a problem we provide the engineers who have seen it before.
As a standalone automotive company, we move with a focus that a larger organisation cannot always match. Our dedicated team of experts runs independently, but draws on a broader network of specialists in many disciplines when the challenge demands it. This ensures that customers get the right expertise from an application focused company with a century of depth behind it.
If your engineers need R&D support on a bearing application or face a challenge that calls for experts in tribology and metallurgy, we’re here to help.
The depth, focus and speed of SKF Vertevo makes us an innovation partner trusted by leading vehicle manufacturers. We work side-by-side with your engineers and offer industry-leading expertise and unique capabilities in low-friction solutions.
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Digital engineering & advanced simulation
Shorter development cycles leave less time for physical testing. Our simulation tools help engineers evaluate designs earlier and faster, reducing the need for prototypes while supporting more efficient development. Here's how we deliver answers faster.
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Product & system innovation
SKF Vertevo specializes in automotive innovation, combining over a century of engineering expertise with rapid, focused problem-solving to meet the fast-evolving demands of the industry. Read about our patented solution for protecting bearings against electric corrosion in EV-motors.
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Materials & sustainability
Our solutions give you sustainability built in, not added on top. First, we help making vehicles cleaner by improving our product. We also create more sustainable supply chains, develop new materials with lower footprint and work to cut our own emissions. Can we help you towards more sustainable products too?
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Where innovation becomes partnership
Our simulation tools, testing capabilities and specialist engineers don't just push technical boundaries. They're what let us join OEM development programmes early, and stay there for decades.
Talk to us. We will bring the expertise.