The wind-energy industry’s trend toward multi-megawatt turbines, whether onshore or offshore, presents particular challenges when it comes to reliability. For Timken (NYSE: TKR), it is an opportunity to put 110 years of engineering history to work on the ultimate “app”: a new series of massive, ultra-large tapered roller bearings based on the revolutionary concept company founder Henry Timken patented in 1898.

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