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Published by the Northwest Aerospace Alliance, the Spring Edition features Quality Bearings Online’s (QBOL) growth and success during a year of uncertainty where business worldwide was all struggling. Here is our story.We are delighted to be featured in the Spring 2021 Edition of the Plane Talk quarterly magazine publication exclusively available to Northwest Aerospace Alliance Members. Plane Talk is a magazine created by The Northwest Aerospace Alliance which supports the aerospace i …

Thinking of competing in the Perfect Pint Challenge? Here’s everything you need to know about how you can win £100 cash for your team. The Perfect Pint Project: The premise of our project is to see if we can build a robot with Leeds University that can pull the perfect pint. We will then pit our robot against an industry professional at Saltaire brewery to see whose pint is the best, man or machine? The competition: This is chance for you and your team to have a bit of fun and ge …

Quality Bearings Online is joining forces with  Saltaire Brewery, beer experts of the North, and the School of Mechanical Engineering at Leeds University, masters of robotics, to create a robot capable of pulling the perfect Yorkshire pint. The project, following proof of concept, will see a fully autonomous robot which will compete against an industry professional in a battle to see who can pull the best pint. The competition which will take place in early June 2017 at the S …

We are thrilled to announce that Quality Bearings Online have won the PD Ports Northern Powerhouse award for E-commerce Exporter of the Year 2017. The event was a prestigious black-tie affair at the Marriott Hotel in Leeds on Thursday 9 February 2017 with over 200 people in attendance. It was a real celebration of the Northern Powerhouse and the outstanding achievements of all of the exporters across the North of England. This was reflected in the choice of guest speakers as we heard some tr …

     We are so proud to have been announced the winner of the Micro Business Export award at The Chase awards last week. The Award itself, Celebrating History and Successful Exporting, was such an honour as we, as a company, are only 4 years old. Established in 2012, the thought was that we would service the UK market. However we soon caught on and realised that our success would lie in exporting, especially in the US. Recognising this we got in touch with UK …