SKF has announced plans to build two new Global Technical Centres - one in Gothenburg, Sweden and one in Nieuwegein, The Netherlands. Together these will form a Global Technical Centre Europe (GTCE) structure and will enable SKF to utilise fully its global footprint and resources to develop innovations across its five technology platforms -- bearings, seals, mechatronics, lubrication systems and services. SKF already has a Global Technical Centre India (GTCI) in Bengaluru and is expanding its Global Technical Centre China (GTCC) and moving it to the new campus at Jiading, Shanghai.

The two new centres within GTCE are part of SKF's technology strategy to develop its global product development and engineering organization. The new Global Technical Centre in Gothenburg will interact with SKF's Manufacturing Development Centre (MDC), which is the main centre for manufacturing development for the Group. The new centre in Nieuwegein will work closely with SKF's main Engineering & Research Centre (ERC) where SKF performs research in areas such as advanced dynamic simulations for bearings, advanced lubrication development and the principles of tribology.