A Young Enterprise With Rich Traditions
1992 | A group of senior staff members leaves Steyr Wälzlager after its acquisition by SKF. |
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1996 | The NKE brand is registered internationally and the company NKE Wälzlager Vertriebsges.m.b.H., headquartered in Steyr, is established. |
1997 | First international office is established in the UK. |
1998 | NKE is certified to ISO 9001 and ISO 14001. |
1999 | Due to rapid expansion, NKE constructs new headquarters on an area of over 2,000 m² of the company’s reserves of 14,000 m². |
2001 | NKE exhibits for the first time at the Hannover Industrial Fair, one of the world’s major industrial trade shows. |
2002 | The first NKE international distributor conference is held on Mallorca, Spain. |
2003 | The second stage in the extension of the office premises in Steyr is carried out. |
2004 | The company name is changed to NKE AUSTRIA GmbH. |
2005 | In the third stage of the extension, the Steyr headquarters is extended to 4,600 m². |
2006 | NKE is awarded the Austria Quality Seal. |
2006 | NKE celebrates its tenth anniversary and holds its third international conference in Athens, Greece. |
2008 | The construction of a new 10,000-m² headquarters beginns. |
2009 | New headquarters is completed. NKE is awarded with the Gold Prize in the regional industry prize Pegasus and certified to OHSAS 180001. |
2011 | NKE joins Research Association Power Transmission Engineering (Forschungsvereinigung Antriebstechnik e.V. - FVA). |
2014 | Sales of 50 Million Bearing. |
2015 | Market introduction of the NKE Agri units. |
2016 | NKE celebrates its twentieth anniversary and holds its eight international distributor conference in Steyr, Austria. |
2016 | NKE Austria and FERSA bearings form strategic partnership FERSA bearings based in Zaragoza Spain, involved companies with 49% of the NKE. |
2018 | Fersa Bearings acquires 100 percent of NKE Austria |
Today NKE develops and manufactures a comprehensive range of high-quality bearings, which are distributed through international offices and 240 distributors in more than 60 countries.