Stainless Steel Mounted Bearings
Mounted units in stainless steel: SUCP pillow blocks, SUCF flange units and SUCT take-up units, housing and insert both stainless, for wet and washdown lines.
Stainless mounted bearings · SUCP / SUCF / SUCT units
Housing and insert, both stainless
A stainless mounted unit answers the case where the housing corrodes, not just the bearing: food and drink lines, washdown machinery, outdoor and marine-adjacent equipment. The types mirror the cast iron range's shapes — SUCP for the pillow block, SUCF for the flange unit, SUCT for the take-up — with stainless housings around stainless inserts. The loose-bearing equivalent is the stainless ball bearing line, for shafts whose housings are the buyer's own and already corrosion-proof.
| Stainless type | Cast iron counterpart | Mounting |
|---|---|---|
| SUCP | UCP | Pillow block, base-mounted |
| SUCF | UCF | Flange unit, frame-mounted |
| SUCT | UCT | Take-up unit, sliding frame |
Where stainless mounted units are specified
The duties that specify this line are the ones where a rusting housing is a hygiene or a maintenance failure: food processing lines that wash down daily, bottling and packaging equipment, chemical-adjacent machinery, and outdoor conveyor and agricultural positions that never fully dry. In those duties the unit is also handled and cleaned as a food-area component, which is part of why the line exists as complete stainless units rather than as stainless inserts in coated housings — the whole exterior is the working surface.
Stainless, thermoplastic or cast iron
The mounted range offers three answers to a wet line, and they divide by duty weight. Cast iron is the standard and the strongest, and it stays the answer where the line is dry. Thermoplastic housings answer washdown at lighter duty, including the one-inch plastic set on the pillow block page. Stainless answers washdown at full duty, with the insert and housing in the same corrosion logic. Naming the cleaning regime in the inquiry — hosed, foamed, chemically washed, or merely damp — is what routes the order between the three.
Specifying a stainless unit
State the stainless type code or its cast iron counterpart plus the word stainless, the shaft size, and the quantity. If only some positions on a line are stainless — the wet end of a conveyor, say — list the positions separately from the cast iron units on the same inquiry, because a mixed line priced as one material is the standing error in this family. The cleaning regime, stated in a line, closes the specification.
Washdown duty is usually a specification written by the buyer's customer rather than the buyer, which makes the written grade worth more than the habit of the last order. Quote the grade and the housing material as a pair in the inquiry, exactly as the end specification states them: a stainless insert in a housing of the wrong material fails the specification as completely as the wrong insert would.
Where the duty is chemical rather than washdown, name the chemical family in the message field. Stainless grades resist by chemistry, not by category, and the grade that serves a food plant and the grade that serves a chemical line are chosen differently.
Send an inquiry
Give the stainless type and shaft size for each unit on your list, with the cleaning regime and quantities, plus the destination market, through the inquiry form.