GGB has a long history of leadership in technology, which has laid the foundation for our position today as the world's largest plain bearings manufacturer.
| 1887 | O.J. Garlock patented his first industrial sealing system. | |
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| 1899 | Findlay and Battle founded Findlay Motor Metals. The company was renamed to Glacier Antifriction Metal Company two years later. |  |
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| 1910s | Began making plain bearings in response to increased demand for internal combustion engines. |  |
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| 1930s | Developed a sintered copper/lead process. |  |
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| 1948 | Began experimenting with PTFE as a bearing material. |  |
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| 1950s | Established Aluminum-Tin (Al20Sn) as a superior engine bearing lining material. | |
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| 1950 | Launched SP. |  |
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| 1954 | Test pilot plant built for making sinter bronze-lined steel strip. | |
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| 1955 | Patented a mush impregnation process of porous bronze. Shortly thereafter, introduced DU bearing and AS15 engine bearing material. | |
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| 1956 | Introduced DU, the first steel-backed bearing material based on PTFE. |  |
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| 1958 | Garlock Inc. was created as a bearing distributor when an agreement was reached with Glacier. | |
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| 1965 | Launched the self-lubricating DX product for greased applications. |  |
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| 1970s | Glacier licenses technology to a number of overseas bearing manufacturers to pay for further R&D. Licensees include: SIC (France), Kolbenschmidt (Germany), Daido Metal Co. (Japan), Garlock Bearings (USA). | |
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| 1976 | Glacier and Garlock Inc. establish joint venture company Garlock Bearings Inc. Glacier delivers strip manufacturing plant and sintering furnace for production of DU and DX. |  |
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| 1986 | Launched Hi-eX product (a variation of DX), designed for high temperature applications. | |
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| 1988 | Glacier establishes the Industrial Bearings Business Unit to specialise in industrial applications. IBBU is replaced in 1992 by Glacier Industrial Bearings (GIB), headquartered in Heilbronn, Germany. |  |
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| 1993 | Introduced DS for ski lifts. |  |
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| 1995 | Introduced DP4 for shock absorbers and other hydraulic applications. |  |
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| 1996 | Launched new range of injection-moulded thermoplastic materials. |  |
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| Late 1990s | Manufacture of DU and derivatives estimated at more than one billion pieces per year. | |
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| 2001 | Goodrich, the owner of Garlock Bearings Inc., acquired GIB and formed Glacier Garlock Bearings. | |
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| 2002 | Goodrich creates a new public company and splits it off to its shareholders. EnPro Industries, Inc. becomes the new parent of Glacier Garlock Bearings. |  |
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| 2003 | Introduced new, lead-free DP31 material for automotive applications Bernd Fischer named new president of Glacier Garlock Bearings Acquisition of Saver North America, a producer of self-lubricating composite bearings Glacier Garlock Bearings expands activities in Asia; Singapore distribution centre opened |  |
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| 2004 | Glacier Garlock Bearings changes name to GGB Offices opened in New Delhi, India and Moscow, Russia; distribution centre opens in South Africa Opening of new manufacturing plant in Sučany, Slovakia | 
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| 2005 | Office opened in Shanghai, China GGB moves its headquarter to Chadds Ford, Philadelphia, USA | |
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| 2006 | Office opens in Singapore Introduces expanded range of solid polymer materials | |
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| 2007 | Introduced sealed bearing cartridges for off-highway equipment applications; opened second sales office in China in Beijing; introduced EP™ series of solid-polymer rod stock for machined parts; acquired Böhringer Kunststofftechnik GmbH, precision injection molder of high-performance plastics |  |
| 2008 | Production facilities established in Suzhou, China, and Pune, India; new DX®10 with DuraStrong™ technology bearings won Frost & Sullivan’s product innovation of the year award in the Class 7-8 truck bearings category. | |
| 2009 | Filament-wound product range introduced to the European and Asian markets; GGB North America certified to AS9100B, the aerospoace industry’s standard for quality management systems; Poland sales office reopened. | |
