About Us

Tribology

noun

¹ the study of friction, wear, lubrication, and the design of bearings; the science of interacting surfaces in relative motion.

Tribotech Composites serves a wide variety of market needs worldwide, providing innovative and custom bushing and bearing products that add substantial value, longevity and efficiencies to systems and operations.

Tribotech brings decades of expertise to the development of advanced polymer bearing composites. Our team combines engineering insight with deep material science knowledge to create solutions that solve real-world friction, wear, and corrosion problems.

We proudly support industries where reliability matters, like hydraulics, marine, mining, power generation, and heavy equipment manufacturing. All our components are crafted in our Ohio-based ISO 9001 facility, ensuring every product meets rigorous performance standards.

Our core operations include:

Research and Development

Tribotech prides itself on thoroughly understanding the demands of each application we approach. With an in-house materials research lab, we deploy the industry’s leading test equipment to simulate real-life conditions to analyze performance and improve our products. Tribotech continuously works to create newer, better, stronger, longer-lasting products that add value, reduce downtime and mitigate risk to complex operations.

Speed

Our focus on customer service drives turnaround times unrivalled in the industry. Quotes, engineering questions, and design requests get a same-day response. Orders move quickly through rapid production and expedited shipping. Emergency requests are filled on demand. Downtime carries a real opportunity cost, and we build our operation around that reality. Customer retention sits above 90 percent, driven by reliability, service, speed, and a track record on special requests.

Expert Support

Real people answer the phones, and they know the products. When a question runs deeper than a service rep can handle, our application engineers step in to find the answer or engineer one from scratch. No phone trees, no ticket queues, no dead ends. Push us on the difficult problems. Solving them is what we are built for.