Ball screws are not all alike. Differences in design, quality, materials, manufacturing, and application support are all factors that affect the performance and extend the life of your ball screw. That’s why it’s important to select your ball screw — and ball screw supplier — very carefully.

Design: Optimal solution for your application needs
The Thomson engineering team has painstakingly evaluated the breadth of ball screw products from BSA, Warner Linear, and Thomson Industries and integrated them into a single, comprehensive, product offering. This new line of ball screws come in a full range of diameters, leads, and ball nut con-figurations, in either preloaded or non-preloaded types, all in industry-standard envelopes. They provide dependable accuracy and repeatability at an economical price.

Quality: Reliability and consistent performance
Thomson pride themselves in consistently providing high quality ball screws. Their background in flight critical aerospace and defence applications uniquely positions us to provide the highest levels of quality across all their ball screw products. Thomson's fully equipped engineering laboratory performs qualification testing for mechanical performance, environmental effects, and structural integrity. Your ball screw is inspected every step of the way to ensure top quality and performance. The result, Thomson ball screws perform the way you expect them to perform — no surprises, no problems.

Materials: Just the right custom and standard offerings
The materials used to manufacture ball screws are critical to their performance. Their in-house metallurgists control and verify that the materials used are of the highest quality. They can also select and recommend materials best suited to your particular application. Thomson have years of experience working with a wide range of standard and non-standard materials.

Manufacturing: Ensures consistent quality and delivery
Thomson maintains the most modern and complete ball screw manufacturing facilities in the industry. In-house manufacturing capabilities include our proprietary heat treating and plating processes. Expert manufacturing using the most modern equipment available provides ball screws that set the standards for performance, precision, and travel life.

Application Support: Over 70 years of experience at your disposal
Working with Thomson is like having your own staff of ball screw design engineers able to address application concerns and recommend solutions. Thomson field sales and applications engineering personnel have more ball screw expertise than any other group in the industry. They are skilled at evaluating your requirements and designing assemblies that fit your needs.