Collection: Food grade deep groove ball bearings

Ensuring food safety compliance is critical in manufacturing processes and isn't just restricted to the key points in production. Contamination can ocurr anywhere within the chain and food grade deep groove ball bearings have been designed so ensure that the materials of the grease and seals meet food safety compliance, reducing the risk within the manufacturing process. 

Sometimes new product developments require great innovation. In the case of food grade deep groove ball bearings this wasn't the case. The basic requirements were already in place within the bearings, stainless steel bearings already existed. Food grade greases already existed as did food safe rubber compounds to make the seals. All that was needed was to combine the 3 together and utilise existing designs.

The benefits of food grade deep groove ball bearings include :

• High performance greases which are allergen free and meet European standards
• Bearings that still perform with water or detergent penetration
• Halal and Kosher certified
• Registered as category H1 by NSF
• Blue rubber seals make it easy to identify fragments in the food stream
• Meet US FDA recommendations

For further information on food grade bearings check out the following documents.

SKF corrosion resistant ball bearings for the food and beverage industry
SKF Food grade bearings for non-corrosive environments

Interested in learning more about deep groove ball bearings ?

We have information on different designs for deep groove ball bearings including, single row deep groove ball bearings including bearings with snap rings or snap ring grooves and double row deep groove ball bearings as well as on stainless steel deep groove ball bearings which can be suitable for use in corrosive environments.

All of our ball bearings are available either as open types where the balls are exposed, sealed types where the bearings are greased for life and then seals are inserted to prevent contaminants getting in and the grease getting out and as shielded bearings where the grease is retained and some sealing protection is offered. Our deep groove ball bearings are also available with different internal clearances designed to improve performance in certain applications. We can supply deep groove ball bearings in both metric and inch sized bearings and with a range of internal clearances which can be utilised to either help reduce noise and vibrations by selecting a lower clearance bearing such as C2 bearing clearance or more standard clearances which cover most applications such as CN bearing clearance or C3 bearing clearance or applications which maybe require greater clearances such as high temperature applications may use one of either C4 bearing clearance, C5 bearing clearance, C5L bearing clearance, C5H bearing clearance so it doesn't matter which you have, the same clearance principles will follow.

If you have space constraints but need a bearing to take more load than a standard deep groove ball bearing then we have max load bearings with filling slots and we also have lots of useful information on deep groove ball bearings that have been designed for specific applications or with special uses in mind like, low noise bearings, bearings for the food industry and energy efficient bearings which are becoming increasingly necessary and popular due to rising energy costs and the need to protect the environment.