b'A recent photo of the team at BMI Bearings sales teamBMI Bearings Reach 40 Years: Evolving with Changing Markets2025 marked 41 years for BMI Bearings, having evolved from an importer of bearings to a manufacturer-exporter from India, while staying family-owned by the second generation. Understanding market trends and beingthe Indian government was encouragingothers), BMI has now expanded its range able to change the direction of thelocal manufacturing, and BMI decidedto mounted roller bearings (sphericalcompany accordingly has been the keyto set up a small plant in Gujarat, India,S2000 and taperedType E) as well. to success, and thats exactly what BMIwith the help of a retired FAG engineer. Bearings has done. Fast forward to the year 2000, when theToday, as the market is Back in 1974, Mr Snehal Sheth startedcompany received its first export ordersaturated with factories from the company with five years experiencefrom a Polish distributor. This changed the entire business direction of theAsia, BMI Bearings analyses in the bearing business at an SKFcompany, and it slowly began exporting authorised distributor in Mumbai. Withwhere it can bring value and that experience and a great deal of zeal,to Germany, Italy, Slovakia, Denmark, Argentina, the USA and a few other Latinhas therefore diversified into he started trading bearings, with allAmerican countries. non-standard and customised energy focused on sourcing obsolete and hard-to-find bearings. In the 1980s, as theFast forward again to 2020, BMI Bearingsbearings, which major brands find customer base grew, he became involvedopened an office in Charlotte, Northdifficult to serve due to size,in the import of bearings from Europe, asCarolina, to support its biggest market, not much manufacturing existed locally inNorth America. Apart from standard rollerexplains the management team. India. Moving forward to the late 1990s,bearings (spherical, taper, cylindrical and BMI Bearings is proud to have been awarded for its exemplary export An old staff photo ofperformance by the Engineering Export the BMI Bearings team Promotion Council of India. BMI Bearings turned 41 in 2025, and it remains family-owned and run, staying highly attuned to what distributors need. Today, it offers a mix of customised and non-standard bearing solutions, along with stock of the standard catalogue range of roller bearings. BMI Bearings are looking forward to many more prosperous years.Contact here:+91 88 9895 8004sales@bmibearings.com www.bmibearings.com 35'