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- NBI Bearings Europe, S.A. (NBI.MC) designs, manufactures, and markets precision ball and roller bearings and high value-added technical products for industrial sectors including heavy lifting and material handling, gearboxes and drives, wind power, railway, oil and gas, construction equipment, compressors and pumps, agricultural machinery, axles and transmissions, tube and wire, mechanical presses, hydraulics, aggregate, paper, mining, and steel industries. Its core bearing products encompass cylindrical roller bearings (CRB), spherical roller bearings (SRB), tapered roller bearings (TRB), cylindrical roller thrust bearings (CRTB), spherical plain bearings (SPB), cam followers (CF), needle roller bearings, support rollers, and the proprietary Enhanced+ line featuring advanced MA1 design spherical roller bearings for severe conditions such as vibrating machinery; the company also provides bearing selection advisory, technical assistance, tailor-made solutions, application engineering, lubrication analysis, homologation processes, and training services. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Oquendo, Spain, with manufacturing plants in Spain, China, and India, laboratories for metrology, metallographic, and performance testing, and sales support across Europe, Latin America, Asia including Romania, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Colombia, Italy, Turkey, Germany, and Singapore, it operates in over 50 countries as a publicly listed entity on Spain's MAB since 2015 with a workforce of approximately 329 employees and a strategic partnership with Chinese bearing manufacturer Cronos. Recent developments include ongoing capacity expansions at its Oquendo (Spain) and Ahmedabad (India) plants, continuous additions to the Enhanced bearing line, a focus on growth emphasized at its 2025 annual sales conventions in Spain and India, and historical inorganic growth through acquisitions between 2016 and 2020 alongside a 2023 formalization of the acquisition of 100% of Industrias Beta to bolster its industrial components portfolio.