King Engine Bearings

What King Engine Bearings does

King Engine Bearings is a U.S.-based, privately held automotive components manufacturer founded in 1960 and headquartered in Livingston. The company specializes in engine bearings for automobiles, serving the automotive market with a focused product line rather than the broader bearings or wider powertrain component categories. With 251-500 employees, the firm sits in the small-to-mid-cap tier of independent aftermarket and OEM-adjacent parts manufacturers in the United States.

The company's core offering is engine bearings — a safety-critical, metallurgically specialized component used in engine assemblies — implying the business rests on proprietary material formulations, precision manufacturing processes, and validated part-number qualifications with engine builders and rebuilders. As a privately held, 65-year-old specialist, King Engine Bearings likely operates a B2B distribution model selling to OEMs, engine remanufacturers, and the performance/aftermarket channel, though no pricing, customer logos, or distribution data were available in the supplied sources.

The company's website (kingbearings.com) was inaccessible during data capture, returning only a verification/loading page, which materially limits the depth of verifiable detail. No information on revenue, ownership structure, management team, certifications, partnerships, M&A activity, patents, or recent product launches was available in the input, and these gaps constrain the granularity of any forward-looking analytical claim about the company's financial trajectory, competitive position, or strategic intent.

Name

King Engine Bearings

Website

https://kingbearings.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1960

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

King Engine Bearings is a privately held U.S. automotive components manufacturer founded in 1960 and headquartered in Livingston, specializing in engine bearings for automobile OEM, remanufacture, and aftermarket channels.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Automotive Engine Bearings

NAICS

Motor Vehicle Gasoline Engine and Engine Parts Manufacturing (33631), Ball and Roller Bearing Manufacturing (332991)

SIC

Ball & Roller Bearings (3562), Motor Vehicle Parts & Accessories (3714)

akta.pro primary industry

Engine Components & Subsystems Manufacturing (Blocks/Heads/Valvetrain/Pistons) (IMACAHAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Aerospace Bearings, Bushings & Motion Components (IMABANAB), Wheel Hubs, Bearings & Knuckles (Hubs/Bearings/Spindles/Knuckles) (IMACAIAI)

Keywords

• Engine bearings
• Automotive bearings
• Engine components
• Motor bearings
• Performance bearings

Headquarters

HQ city

Livingston

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Core offering

King Engine Bearings designs and manufactures engine bearings for automobiles, supplying bearing products used in passenger-car engines as well as in high-performance and motorsports applications. The company produces both standard replacement bearings and performance-oriented bearing lines for engine rebuilders, distributors, and racing customers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Automotive Engine Bearings Engine bearings manufactured for use in passenger-car and other automotive engines, intended for engine rebuilders, parts distributors, and aftermarket replacement channels.
• High-Performance / Motorsports Bearings Engine bearings designed for higher-load and higher-RPM use cases in racing and high-performance engine builds, sold to engine builders, racing teams, and performance shops.

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Broad incumbents

• Clevite Bearings (Dana Incorporated): Clevite is a heritage engine-bearings brand now part of Dana Incorporated. Comparable to King Engine Bearings as an engine-bearings specialist with deep US market presence and long operating history.
• Timken: Timken is a US-headquartered bearings and power-transmission specialist with adjacent capabilities to King Engine Bearings in precision bearings for automotive and industrial markets. Comparable in metallurgy and bearings manufacturing, broader in application.
• NTN Corporation: NTN is a major global bearings manufacturer with a significant automotive engine-bearings business. Comparable product offering but much broader portfolio (rolling-element bearings for many applications) and global scale.
• MAHLE: MAHLE is a global Tier-1 automotive supplier whose engine components portfolio includes bearings, pistons, and valvetrain parts. Directly comparable as an engine-components manufacturer, though much larger and diversified across powertrain and thermal management.
• Daido Metal: Daido Metal is one of the world's largest manufacturers of engine bearings, supplying nearly every major Japanese and European OEM. Comparable in core product (engine bearings) but at significantly larger scale and with global footprint.
• Federal-Mogul (now Tenneco / DRiV): Federal-Mogul's Glyco brand is one of the world's largest manufacturers of engine bearings, supplying OEMs globally. Directly comparable product offering (engine bearings) for ICE applications, though at much greater scale and broader product breadth than King Engine Bearings.

Direct peers

• ACL Bearings: ACL is a specialty manufacturer of engine bearings (and other performance engine components) with a strong focus on the performance/motorsport aftermarket. Closely comparable to King Engine Bearings in product scope, customer type (aftermarket, engine builders), and company scale.
• GGB (Glacier Garlock Bearings / EnPro Industries): GGB manufactures plain and rolling-element bearings for automotive and industrial applications, with similar specialty-engineering positioning to King Engine Bearings. Closely comparable in product category and customer segments.
• King Bearing competitor: Vandervell (Vandervell Technologies): Vandervell is a UK-based heritage engine-bearings manufacturer with a similar specialty focus on plain engine bearings for automotive and industrial applications. Closely comparable in product scope and target market to King Engine Bearings.

Emerging players

• Engineered Components (RPM International - Speciallite/SBC): Smaller specialty bearings and engine-component manufacturers participating in the same aftermarket and performance-engine channels as King Engine Bearings. Comparable in niche positioning, smaller in scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/kingbearings
• Facebookfacebook.com/king.bearings
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/king-engine-bearings

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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