The first known ball bearing was found when excavating a vessel from the Nemi lake outside Rome in the 1930s. It was a thrust bearing designed to carry a turntable for a statue on one of emperor Caligula's ships, and dates to around 50 A.D. The bearing washers were made of wood and the upper washer, equipped with bronze balls with stub shafts on each side, rotated on the lower washer. The balls were mounted in recesses and not freely rotating as in modern bearings, but constrained by the stub shafts and straps over them.

The modern bearings

Almost 2000 years after the early Roman bearing, Scicluna Enterprises offer the Maltese islands the latest latest invention in bearings, providing the perfect soloution to all any mechanical need.

Scicluna Enterprises offers bearings in the following types:  ball bearings, bearing accessories, mounted bearings, roller bearings, sleeve bearings and special bearing types.  Scicluna Enterprisesis capable of meeting your bearing needs with products from the world's leading bearing manufacturer SKF. Scicluna Enterprises are proud to be Authorised Reprsentives for SKF. Contact us today for more information.