Did You Know...
 | that PEER has over 300 different lubricants to choose from. |
 | PEER has regreasing facilities in our world headquarters in Waukegan, IL. |
 | PEER has a new life testing room at our worldwide headquarters in Waukegan, IL. |
 | PEER has state of the art nitrogen heat treatment processes at TWO of our PEER owned China factories. |
 | when you visit the PEER Bearing’s world headquarters in Waukegan, IL you get a free embroidered PEER polo or button down shirt. |
 | when you visit PEER Bearing’s world headquarters in Waukegan, IL you get a free lunch at PEER Café. |
 | PEER manufactures at our worldwide headquarters in Waukegan, IL . |
 | there are dogs, cats, and/or birds that run the premises at a few of the PEER Bearing locations worldwide. |
 | Chris, PEER Bearings Great Lakes Area Manager, likes to go kayaking. |
 | PEER’s AgXtreme bearings have an exclusive seal design developed for harsh and severe environments. |
 | PEER Bearing Headquarters in Waukegan, IL is ISO certified. |
 | that PEER Bearing’s manufacturing facilities in China are TS-16949 certified. |
 | PEER holds a biannual PEER Institute of Bearing and Chain Technology training for distributors. |
 | that in PEER’s Mud Slurry test results PEER Bearing seals performed significantly better than the name brand bearing seals. |
 | PEER has a patent on a unique locking mechanism for out Grip-It bearings. |
 | the PEER HR Dept. serves all PEER Companies. |
 | the PEER HR Dept. fields over 4,000 resumes a year. |
 | when you combine the total number of days worked without an injury in all of PEER Bearing’s warehouse departments, the Safety Days sum comes to 2,076 days! |
 | the HR Director has owned boats for 30 years!!!!! |
 | that PEER offers a line of oil bath and shaft seals. |
 | that early shaft seals used rawhide as the primary sealing element. |
 | many of today’s elastomeric sealing companies were once tanneries. |
 | that the seal product line is a perfect complement to the superior line of tapered bearings offered by PEER Bearing Company. |
 | that PEER supplies two of the largest truck manufacturers in the US with oil bath seals for their brand specific aftermarket program. |
 | that PEER can design and manufacture seals specific to your application. |
 | PEER insert bearings are available by special order with "S2" heat stabilization. Good for operating temperatures of up to 450°F. |
 | "OSHA" is not a small town in Wisconsin. Because of this, PEER had designed and is designing more safety caps for insert bearings. |
 | "MUD" is the acronym for PEERs’ Mounted Unit Division covering insert bearings and assemblies. In the AG industry and many others, our bearings are designed to run in mud all day long. |
 | If you stacked all the standard height, 1" bore, cast iron pillow blocks sold by PEER in 2006 on top of each other; it would be 2 times taller than the new Trump Tower being built in Chicago. |
 | PEER can provide a vapor deposition process on bearings to achieve outstanding corrosion protection. This FDA recognized process increases the corrosion resistance of chrome steel bearings to that approaching stainless steel for less cost. |
 | One customer tested the quality of pillow blocks by throwing them over the roof of his shop and onto the parking pad on the other side. If it didn’t break, you got the order. Peer got the order and continues to sell this customer 15 years later. |
 | PEER offers no fewer than 14 different types of insert bearings in up to 75 different bore diameters. This number continues to grow. |
 | The PEER Mounted Unit catalog is identified by "NS-289" as the catalog number. The "NS" stands for our founder, Nate Spungen. The "289" stands for the month & year the previous product manager began his career at Peer, Feb. 1989. |
 | Earlier editions of the catalog had an identifier of "NS-213" again in honor of Nate Spungen and 2/13 the month and day he passed away. |
 | Small stones scattered on the ground were one of the earliest forms of bearings. |
 | Fred Flintstones’ license plate number was XYZ643. |
 | 10 pounds of gold weighs the same as 10 pounds of PEER bearings. |