Below you will find a list with SKFs major acquisitions and divestments since 1995 as well as SKFs acquisition criteria.

A = Acquisition, D = Divestment, O = Other

Date	Type	Company	Press release
2009-05-19	A	Macrotech Polyseal Inc.	SKF acquires remaining part of US based seals company
2008-11-05	A	Cirval S.A.	SKF acquires lubrication systems company in Argentina
2008-09-16	A	PEER Bearing Company	SKF's acquisition of US based bearing company now closed
2008-09-02	A	GLO s.r.I	SKF has signed an agreement to acquire GLO s.r.I and its manufacturing operation in Italy.
2008-03-04	A	QPM Aerospace	SKF acquires US based airframe manufacturer
2007-12-21	A	S2M	SKF's acquisition of leading magnetic bearing company now closed.
2007-06-21	A	Electric Motor Diagnostics Company	SKF acquires Electric Motor Diagnostics Company in USA
2007-03-13	D	Luchow plant	Sale of SKF's forging in Germany signed
2007-03-02	A	Automatic Lubrication Systems (ALS)	SKF announced the acquisition of Automatic Lubrication Systems (ALS) company of Burlington, Ontario, Canada
2007-02-27	A	ABBA Linear Tech Co Ltd	SKF acquires Taiwanese company in linear motion
2007-01-11	A	Preventive Maintenance Company Inc. (PMCI)	SKF acquires US company in maintenance business
2006-11-20	D	Oy Ovako Ab	Sale of Ovako finalized
2006-11-10	D	Oy Ovako Ab	The sale of Ovako received relevant regulatory approvals
2006-08-29	A	Economos Austria GmbH	SKF acquires Austrian Economos and strengthens its sealing business
2006-08-24	A	Monitek Australia	SKF strengthens its service business, acquires US and Australian companies
2006-08-24	A	Precision Balancing & Analyzing (PB&A)	SKF strengthens its service business, acquires US and Australian companies
2006-08-16	A	John Crane's lubrication systems	SKF's acquisition of the leading Finnish lubrication systems business
2006-07-17	D	Oy Ovako Ab	RAUTARUUKKI, SKF AND WÄRTSILÄ to sell OVAKO
2006-07-04	A	SNFA SAS	SKF's acquisition of SNFA finalized
2006-05-04	D	Forging Shop, Lüchow	SKF to sell its forging business in Germany
2006-04-24	A	RC DEI Norge AS	SKF acquires service company in gas and oil business
2006-04-06	A	Macrotech Polyseal Inc.	SKF acquires leading US industrial seals company
2006-04-03	A	SNFA S.A.S	SKF plan to acquire leading French bearing company
2005-09-27	A	Sommers Industriteknik AB	SKF acquires Swedish lubrication system company
2005-06-09	A	SKF India Limited	The listing of SKF's Indian subsidiary continues
2005-06-09	A	Jaeger Industrial Ltd	SKF's acquisition of Jaeger finalized
2005-05-10	O	Rautaruukki and Wärtsilä	SKF, Rautaruukki and Wärtsilä have completed merger of long steel businesses
2005-02-10	A	SKF India Limited	SKF intends to acquire full ownership
2005-01-19	D	Ovako La Foulerie	SKF sold steel plant in France
2004-07-08	A	Willy Vogel AG	SKF's acquisition of Vogel finalised
2004-05-12	A	Willy Vogel AG	Memorandum of Understanding / SKF acquires lubrication systems company
2004-04-22	A	Vibration Engineers and Consultants Pvt. Ltd (VEC)	SKF acquires Vibration Engineers in India
2003-05-05	A	Rolling Stock Supply & Service Pty Ltd	SKF acquires a railway bearing service company in Australia
2003-05-02	D	Veenendaal plant	SKF sold component manufacturing in the Netherlands to US based NN, Inc.
2003-04-22	A	Scandrive Control AB	SKF acquires leading specialist in servo gears for the printing industry
2003-01-10	A	Twentieth Century Machine Co., TCM	SKF acquires US linear motion company
2002-12-09	D	Veenendaal plant	SKF sell its component manufacturing operations in Veenendaal, Netherlands
2002-08-14	D	Ovako Ajax Inc.	SKF sold steel unit in the United States
2002-05-21	A	Delta Consult B.V.	SKF expands Reliability Systems.
2002-04-22	A	NSK Aerospace Europe Ltd.	SKF's acquisition of UK bearings business finalized.
2002-03-18	A	VMZ	SKF acquires the Bulgarian bearing company VMZ.
2002-02-15	A	Erin Engineering and Research, Inc.	SKF acquires Maintenance Engineering Company in the US.
2002-01-10	A	Magnetic Group	SKF acquires leading manufacturer of actuation systems.
2001-09-14	D	Sale to CMSP s.r.l.	SKF sells its Italian based sheet metal components manufacturing.
2001-06-28	A	Nåiden Teknik AB (NTAB)	SKF acquires Swedish service company.
2001-04-23	A	Gamfior S.p.A	SKF acquires Italian Machine Tool Spindle Company.
2001-01-09	O	International Component Supply Ltda - ICS	SKF and Timken start joint venture in Brazil.
2000-12-21	A	MTSR Ltd	SKF acquires a British Machine Tool Service company
2000-12-15	A	Roller Bearing Industries (RBI)	SKF acquires service company in the US railway industry
2000-09-27	A	Revolve Magnetic Bearings Inc.	SKF strengthens its position in magnetic bearings
2000-06-30	A	Diagnostic Instruments Ltd.	SKF acquires specialist in mobile industrial computers
2000-06-29	A	Sealpool AB	SKF acquires Swedish seals company
2000-06-13	A	Electrac S.A	SKF acquires French actuator company
2000-04-10	D	NN Euroball Aps	SKF, FAG and NN Ball and Roller start joint venture for ball manufacturing.
2000-04-05	A	Machine Support BV	SKF acquires Dutch service company
2000-04-03	D	Lidköping Machine Tools AB	SKF sells its machine tool manufacturer to KMT
2000-03-30	D	Research and development Centre	SKF sells research centre premises
2000-01-11	A	Development Engineering International (DEI)	SKF Group acquires DEI as it expands its Service activities
1999-09-30	D	Sale of head office building	SKF sells head office building in Göteborg
1999-07-09	D	SKF Arvika AB	SKF sells forging unit in Arvika
1999-06-16	D	Roller Bearing Company of America Inc. - RBC	SKF sells manufacturing of Tapered Bearings in the USA
1999-04-09	D	Divestment of textile machinery components	SKF sells textile machine business
1999-01-25	D	SKF Arvika AB, WPB Water Pump Bearing GmbH & Co	SKF exits and sells operations
1998-09-23	D	ScanDust AB	SKF sells ScanDust
1998-08-24	A	CR Mexicana	Chicago Rawhide expands in Mexico
1998-06-09	A	Russel T. Gilman Inc.	SKF focuses on new area of operations
1998-04-20	O	Wafangdian Bearing Co. Ltd.	SKF starts new joint-venture company in China
1997-12-29	A	Lutsk Bearing Plant	SKF acquires bearing plant in Ukraine
1997-12-01	O	Revolve Magnetic Bearings Inc.	SKF in world-leading partnership for magnetic bearings
1997-06-30	D	FlexLink Systems AB	Sale of FlexLink Systems
1997-05-20	A	PT Logam Sari Bearindo (LSB)	SKF to begin bearing production in Indonesia
1997-02-25	O	Wafangdian Group	Major new SKF investments in China
1996-04-15	O	Beijing Nankou SKF Railway Bearings Co Ltd	SKF expands in China
1995-12-06	O	WPB Water Pump Bearing GmbH & Co K.G	SKF and INA to form a joint-venture company for water pump spindles
1995-07-26	A	FLT Poznan	SKF acquires Polish bearing company
1995-06-06	O	With Hanwha Machinery Co Ltd. (HWMC)	SKF to commence bearing production in Korea