FREYSSINET | Bearings

Freyssinet offers a complete range of bearings designed to successfully respond to the operating limitations of any structure, meeting all international standards. Apart from the connection between piers and top plates of bridges, Freyssinet bearings can also be used on other types of structures, such as stadiums, pipelines, buildings. All Freyssinet bearings are subject to rigorous internal and external controls at all stages of production, ensuring the continuity of the CE mark on all Freyssinet products.

Freyssinet's design team offers the most optimal solutions for each type of construction, according to the projected needs, as well as the required standards. The company also specializes in bearing inspection and maintenance/replacement.

Elastomeric Bearings

Elastomeric bearings absorb moderate loads while allowing significant rotational movement. Freyssinet offers natural and synthetic rubber bearings to meet various national and international standards (EN, BS, AASHTO, DIN,..). The quality of the production of these bearings is guaranteed through appropriate formulas, control of mixtures and of the surface treatment of the steel, as well as through the  manufacturing and modeling procedures.

Rigorous internal and external inspections are carried out at all stages of production, ensuring the continuity of CE marking on Freyssinet products.

TETRON pot bearings, spherical and special mechanical bearings

Freyssinet has its own range of pot and spherical bearings, TETRON® bearings. Freyssinet pot bearings are characterized by moderate sizes, tailor-made to the project, adaptability to different standards, cost-efficiency, diversity of purposes (ex. as an anti-sliding or lifting system). All their parts, including the PTFE sliding pad, have CE mark.

Freyssinet spherical bearings are characterized by the use of a new material as a sliding pad instead of pure PTFE, which is the ISOGLIDE® material which in many cases allows a reduction in bearing dimensions, a coefficient of friction <2% in a moderate temperature range, a coefficient of friction <3.5% at very low temperatures and 5 times the durability of PTFE, with particular durability at low temperatures, which significantly extends the life of the bearing. The bearings are adjustable to all national and international standards and have the CE marking. Special bearings used to receive only horizontal forces, oscillatory bearings, etc.