Join BSA
BSA builds essential relationships between distributors and manufacturers.
Why Join BSA?
There are many reasons to join the Bearing Specialists Association, listed below are the most important three.
- BSA and the BSA Annual Convention offer unparalleled industry networking. BSA is the "must belong to organization for authorized bearing distributors" because it offers unparalleled industry networking as part of every BSA Annual Convention agenda. No other industry event brings together top-level leaders from both the distribution and manufacturing sectors of the supply chain. The opportunity to networking with industry leaders and share knowledge at the highest level is unmatched in any other industry group.
- BSA is the only association with the tools and knowledge sharing to develop the next generation of industry leaders and deliver expertise for the benefit of manufacturers. For more than 50 years, BSA's unique networking opportunities have developed generation after generation of industry leaders who have shaped not just their companies but those they do business with into the innovators of what is now a technologically driver, worldwide marketplace. Only BSA can provide the industry access along with the tools and knowledge sharing to become a future leader in the industry.
- BSA delivers a significant return on investment. BSA understands that businesses run by the bottom line. BSA delivers real ROI. Industry leaders who invest time and financial resources in BSA are shaping relationships and future business while resolving today's business challenges. Attendees call the BSA Annual Convention "the most profitable business trip of the year" because they meet the decision-makes of their key distribution chain partners.
BSA Members say it best:
"BSA is, quite simply, the best business investment you can make. This is industry networking and knowledge sharing at the highest level. We invite you to develop and enhance the industry-specific relationships that are the basics for BSA."
Member Benefits
BSA fosters essential industry relationships between distributors and manufacturers. Being a member or participating manufacturer of BSA provides regular opportunities for key personnel to meet with their counterparts in other companies, to discuss mutual problems and to find the solutions to those problems. BSA provides a forum in which members can conveniently visit with the policy-making executives of suppliers, expert resources for members to improve their efficiency through personnel education and training, including the bearing industry’s only certification program. BSA also provides complete and timely information about industry, government, association, and other developments important to survival and growth as well as an appreciation for the essential role played by the distributor and manufacturer and with the value added by the bearing specialist to the products provided.
Join BSA as an Authorized Distributor
Click "Authorized Distributor" below for information on membership qualifications and how to become a member.
Authorized Distributors
Qualifications for Membership
To be eligible for BSA membership, an applicant must have had as a principal function the stocking, selling and distributing, as an authorized distributor of a full range of all basic types and sizes of new factory-warranted bearings for a period of at least two years. This activity must be sufficiently broad to permit the company to serve, on an effective and timely basis, the industrial replacement and maintenance requirements of its accounts or potential accounts.
The applicant should therefore be recognized as a bearing specialist by representative bearing manufacturers and bearing specialists, and:
- Maintain a full-time sales organization, actively and continuously engaged in calling upon and servicing customers.
- Maintain an adequately staffed and equipped office along with adequate warehouse and shipping facilities that should be continuously open during normal business hours.
- Purchase new factory-warranted bearings as an authorized distributor and maintain a warehouse stock of such products large enough to service its customers and potential customers effectively.
- Have personnel possessing the training and ability to draw specifications, recommend changeover applications, and generally to assist its customers in solving engineering and other technical problems related to the replacement of bearings and associated items.
"Authorized distributor” for the purposes of the BSA bylaws is defined as a distributor who has been notified, specifically and demonstrably, by a bearing manufacturer that it may hold itself out to others that it has the status of an authorized distributor for one or more of such manufacturer’s basic types and sizes of new manufacturer warranted bearings for replacement or maintenance purposes. If such manufacturer withdraws such authorization, the distributor is no longer an authorized distributor for that manufacturer’s products within the meaning of the BSA bylaws. As with all other bylaw words and provisions, the BSA Board of Directors’ interpretation is final.
How to Join
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Participate in BSA as a Manufacturer
Click "Manufacturers of Bearings and Accessories" below for information on how to participate.
Manufacturers of Bearings and Accessories
Participating Manufacturers
Manufacturers of bearings and accessories may become Participating Manufacturers of BSA. Participating manufacturers are entitled to receive BSA mailings during the year, to have access to the BSA Electronic Resource Center, to be listed in BSA's electronic Address Book, to participate in BSA activities such as committees, to have access to BSA's published materials, and to have a conference table at the BSA Annual Convention where they can have private, one-on-one meetings with existing and potential customers.
How to Join
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Interested in joining a BSA Committee or Task Force?
All committees must have a majority participation of Distributors vs. Manufacturers.
