The bearing market is playing a major role within the European industry and can be defined as a solid indicator for the economy. Many large and family-owned companies are today the key players on the continent, supplying thousands of industrial users active in hundreds of industry segments. In the research below we tried to share estimated imports, exports and manufacturing of different type of bearings, which are forming the main categories within the bearing industry. The shared statistics

are an estimation of previous years and gathered from various sources. The accuracy of the data depends on the reporting companies and registration authorities and cannot be considered as absolute, since data from many small size companies and some manufacturing companies are not shared. The research includes the import, export and manufacturing of ball bearings, tapered roller bearings, spherical roller bearings, needle roller bearings, cylindrical roller bearings, bearing units and other less common bearing types.