INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT
Bearings
World’s Most Productive Companies
Bearings
Bearings makers supply precision bearings across industrial, aerospace, and automotive uses. Productivity tracks industrial demand, mix, and plant utilization.
2025 was a softer year, with the group about 7% below its 2019 baseline. RBC Bearings stood out as a World’s Most Productive Company, reaching 1.06. None of the companies improved on the year, a broad-based decline.
Bearings World's Most Productive Companies
Productivity Snapshot
- Bearings ranks fourteenth of twenty-one Industrial Equipment peer groups in 2025, at an Industrial Productivity Index of 0.93, about 7% below its 2019 baseline.
- 0 of 5 companies grew productivity in 2025.
- It is the group’s World’s Most Productive Company: RBC Bearings (1.06).
- 2025 was a soft year, with none of the five companies improving, though the group's aerospace-exposed leader stayed above the pack.
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