The brief, and why it was written that way
A part number, an ISO 9001 requirement, and one instruction that made this the hardest brief in the programme: direct producers only.
6204 is a standardised deep groove ball bearing. Thousands of companies sell it. A few dozen make it. A plain search for the part number returns a wall of distributors, marketplaces and catalogue sites, all of them technically correct and none of them what a buyer sourcing at volume needs.
The brief was searched worldwide with China excluded, which for bearings is a demanding combination: it removes the largest producing country and asks what remains.
Deep groove ball bearings 6204, ISO 9001 manufacturers, direct producers only
Searched worldwide, excluding China · campaign 2266d0c1 · pass mark 250
Where they were
Top of the file
- SMB BearingsUnited Kingdom95
- BBC-RLatvia95
- DogarulmanTürkiye95
- KINEXUnited Kingdom95
- URS CompanyTürkiye95
The engine read 531 company pages to get here, and the first name worth keeping appeared after 54 seconds. It threw away 87 that it read and judged too weak to be worth enriching and 4 that were borderline and got sampled out. A further 6 went to the reserve pile, which is the engine saying it is not sure.
What is actually in the file
It took the longest of any run and returned a fraction of what the packaging brief did. Both facts are the category, not the software. There is simply less to find, and telling a maker from a reseller requires opening the page rather than reading the search result.
What came back is genuinely useful. India leads the count, then the United States, Germany, Japan and Hong Kong. The highest scoring entries include a British specialist, a Latvian works, two Turkish producers and a Slovak name, which is a good illustration of why the search reads more than English: a European bearing manufacturer's most informative page is usually not its English one.
Around half the shortlist came with an email address and about half published a certification, which for industrial components is normal. These companies sell through technical enquiry, not through a web form.
Deep groove ball bearings 6204, ISO 9001 manufacturers, direct producers only
Searched worldwide, excluding China · campaign 2266d0c1 · 39 suppliers returned
| Company | Country | City | Website | Score | Specialization | Certificates |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BBC-R | Latvia | bbcr.eu | 95 | Manufacturing of deep groove ball bearings | ||
| Dogarulman | Türkiye | dogarulman.com.tr | 95 | Bearing manufacturing and distribution | ||
| KINEX | United Kingdom | Wolverhampton | rmbearings.co.uk | 95 | Super precision ball bearings | ISO 9001 |
| SMB Bearings | United Kingdom | Carterton | smbbearings.com | 95 | Low noise electric motor grade bearings | EMQ2 |
| URS Company | Türkiye | Uşak | urscompany.com | 95 | Manufacturer of bearing housings and industrial components. | |
| Airpress | Germany | airpress.de | 90 | Bearing manufacturer | ||
| GMN Bearing USA | United States | Katy | gmnbt.com | 90 | Manufactures high-precision radial and angular contact ball bearings and sprag clutches. | |
| Koyo (JTEKT Corporation) | Japan | koyo.jtekt.co.jp | 90 | Manufacturer of industrial and automotive bearings | ||
| L-Con Solutions | India | Pune | lconsolutionsindia.com | 90 | Manufacturer of conveyor components and bearings | ISO 9001 |
| LFD | Germany | Mönchengladbach | lfd.eu | 90 | Ball bearing manufacturer | ISO 9001 |
| Scheerer Bearing Corporation | United States | Willow Grove | scheererbearing.com | 90 | Manufacturer of deep groove and custom ball bearings | ISO 9001:2015 |
| Sun Rises Group Limited | Hong Kong | Hong Kong | ko.suvbearing.com | 90 | Deep groove ball bearings manufacturer | |
| ZEN BEARINGS | Spain | zen.biz | 90 | Manufacturer of special dimension ball bearings. | ||
| AHR International | United States | ahrinternational.com | 85 | Bearing manufacturing and supply | ||
| Associated Bearing Corporation | India | Delhi | associatedbearing.com | 85 | Manufacturer of single row deep groove ball bearings | |
| BHEL | India | bhel.com | 85 | Industrial bearings manufacturer and supplier | ||
| BTC Engineering GmbH | Germany | Eningen unter Achalm | btc-engineering.de | 85 | Developer and manufacturer of bearing products and components | |
| Fukuda Corporation | Japan | fukudaco.co.jp | 85 | High-precision ball bearings manufacturing | ISO9001, AS9100 | |
| Jolly Industries | India | Ludhiana | gembearings.com | 85 | Manufacturer of various types of bearings. | IATF 16949, ISO 9001 |
| Lasting Bearing Group Limited | Hong Kong | Hong Kong | ko.lastingbearing.com | 85 | Deep groove ball bearings manufacturer and supplier | ISO 9001 |
| MARC Bearings Pvt. Ltd | India | Rajkot | marcbearings.com | 85 | Ball bearing manufacturing and supply | ISO 9001 |
| NACHI Bearing Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (株)ナチベアリング製造 | Japan | Toyama | nachi-fujikoshi.co.jp | 85 | Bearing manufacturing for automotive, construction machinery, and aerospace. | ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO/TS 16949 |
| NMB Technologies Corporation | United States | nmbtc.com | 85 | Custom ball bearing solutions and manufacturing | ||
| National Engineering Industries Ltd | India | Jaipur | nbcbearings.com | 85 | Bearings manufacturer and exporter | ISO 9001 |
| National Engineering Industries Ltd. (NEI) | India | autocomponentsindia.com | 85 | Bearing manufacturing and solutions | ||
| PTI | Germany | Gummersbach | pti.eu | 85 | Ball bearing manufacturer | ISO 9001 |
| Polymer Dynamics, Inc | United States | Houston | polydyn.com | 85 | Performance engine bearing coating application | |
| SBB TECH | South Korea | Gimpo-si | sbb.co.kr | 85 | Manufacturer of high-precision bearings and robot drive modules. | ISO 9001 |
| SDEYI Bearing Group LTD | Hong Kong | Hong Kong | ko.bearingworlds.com | 85 | Manufacturing and supply of various types of bearings. | |
| SMB | Ukraine | Kyiv | galp.com.ua | 85 | Deep Groove Ball Bearings | ISO 9001 |
The 30 highest scoring of 39, sorted by match score. The other 9 rows are in the workbook, in these same columns, with the contact addresses the campaign found.
Score is the engine’s own, out of 100. Specialization is its one line reading of the company’s own pages, so it describes how a company presents itself rather than what anybody confirmed on site. Certificates are printed as each company publishes them and are not verified with the issuing body. Contact addresses are in the workbook only: several are patterns rather than discoveries, and a guessed address printed publicly is a wrong fact about a real company.
91 candidates dropped, by reason
| Reason code | What the code means | Count |
|---|---|---|
| B5_DROP_WEAK | Read, then judged too weak to enrich | 87 |
| B5_SAMPLE_SKIP | Borderline, sampled out | 4 |
The reason is recorded per reason code, not per company. The pipeline counts how many candidates each rule dropped and keeps no reason against an individual name, so this table says how the 91 were lost and cannot say which company sits behind any one of the counts.
A missing certificate never drops a good maker. It lowers a score, and the score is a number you can argue with.
Where this stops being enough
"Direct producers only" is screened from how a company describes itself, and in the bearing trade that line is genuinely blurred. Several large names both manufacture and factor other people's product, and their pages say so in different places.
If you are qualifying at volume, the check that settles it is not on the website. Ask for the plant address and the ISO 9001 certificate scope, and read whether the scope covers manufacturing or only distribution. That single document separates the two categories cleanly, and no web search can substitute for it.
This run took 12.3 minutes and left 39 names on the shortlist. Yours will look different, and we will tell you when it looks worse.