Foundation: 1996 (dropped out of GPZ 4)
Location: Samara, Russia
Production area: 12 hectares
Staff: 1902
Main business activities: designing and production of high precision bearings for aircraft and helicopter engines, for precision machine-tool construction
Product range: 5000 types of bearings
General Director: Vladimir V. Makarchuk

Open joint-stock company "Aviation Bearing Plant", (The former name "Special Bearings Plant") is located in Samara. Being a part of the European Bearing Corporation it is the key plant of its Special Production Division.

The EBC Special Production Division is the largest and currently the most up-to-date manufacturer of special bearings including high precision bearings in the CIS region. Among the key consumers of the Division are such industries as aerospace, military, shipbuilding, nuclear power engineering, high-precision machine-building. These are the industries where the quality of bearings determines the operability of the most important assemblies of the products.

The plant has mastered batch production of the most basic rolling bearing groups: radial ball bearings; angular - contact ball bearings; thrust and thrust radial ball bearings; radial roller bearings with short cylindrical rollers; radial roller bearings with needle rollers and long cylindrical rollers; thrust roller bearings; tapered roller bearings; spherical roller bearings.

The plant's product nomenclature currently includes more than 5000 types of bearings including double-raw and flange designs, high-precision (ABEC-5, ABEC-7, ABEC-9) and low-noise bearings ranging from 10 mm to 620 mm in diameter and from 20 g to 76.8 kg in weight. Races and rolling elements are manufactured from bearing steels, hot-working steels, and stainless steels. Cages are made of steel and nonferrous metals: bronze, brass, aluminum alloys and also textolite. The plant also produce rolling elements: balls, rollers and needle rollers.

Aviation Bearing Plant specializes in producing bearings for aircraft and helicopter engines and high precision bearings for machine building. All Soviet- and Russian-made aero engines have plant's bearings installed. Plant;s bearings are also utilized by many other industries in a wide range of military and civil products, being important parts of rockets, tanks, submarines, vessels, industrial electric motors, cars, tractors etc.

Open joint-stock company "Aviation Bearing Plant" incorporates Special Construction Bureau with specialists from Samara State Aerospace University. Its main research fields include designing of special bearings for aircraft engines and low-noise bearings for ultrahigh rotation speed. Preproduction of hybrid bearings with ceramic rolling elements is going full speed ahead.

Strict quality control is maintained at all stages of manufacturing process based on a well-developed network of experimental and research laboratories. All bearings of aerospace and military application undergo extra complex testing to be approved by the Quality Control Agency of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. The plant's quality management system meets all the up-to-date demands and is certified according to ISO-9001:2000 standard. Fifty-year-long experience in bearings manufacturing, military technologies and international certifications guarantee high quality and durability of the products.

In 2004 Open joint-stock company "Aviation Bearing Plant" was admitted to membership in the "Association of Aero Engines Manufacturers" (ASSAD) currently uniting more than 100 companies from 7 countries. This helped plant to improve cooperation with the key customers to optimize manufacturing programs and raise effectiveness of technical contacts. In accordance with the decision of ASSAD Scientific and Technical Council meeting held in February 2005 in Samara, Open joint-stock company "Aviation Bearing Plant" became the leading supplier of special bearings to the Association members.