About us - Z&S Bearings production

Zivko & Sinovi d.o.o.

Quality, innovation and the trust of our customers are key to our continued expansion and success in the market.

Zivko & Sinovi d.o.o. is a company specialized in the production and sale of rolling bearings. We currently offer more than 3,000 products, including ball bearings, roller bearings, needle bearings, housing bearings and other types.

We are able to develop and manufacture over 10,000 different types of rolling bearings and machine positions, according to the specific needs of clients.

We place a special focus on bearings for agricultural machinery, which are used by both domestic and foreign manufacturers of agricultural machinery.

Our company's long-ago establishment and headquarters are in Temerin, and our broader structure now looks like this:

R&D - Center for research and development with the administrative and commercial department in Belgrade, Serbia

From 2025, the Center for Research and Development (R&D) was opened, as a representative place of the company Zivko & Sinovi in ​​this part of Europe. It is located in the business park AFI City Zmaj in New Belgrade and covers a total of 1,200 m².

The center combines a modern laboratory for testing bearings, a technical area for product design and development, a showroom for displaying the assortment, as well as commercial offices for sales. The space also includes a conference room and a space for online monitoring of the production process from our factory in China.

We offer customers the kind of support that only renowned global companies provide - all information and professional assistance is available in one place.

Z&R–Z&S manufacturing plant in Linxi County, Hebei, China

From 2022 new project, and in April 2025. ceremonial commissioning of the first phase (the first of seven units) of the new Z&R-Z&S factory in Linxi County, Hebei, China. The project is the realization of a joint investment between the Chinese company Zhongda Bearing Z&R and our Serbian company Z&S Serbia, with the help of the local government of Linxi County, the Linxi County Bearing Manufacturers Association Cluster and the State of China. The factory covers an area of ​​80,000 m2. of production space in 7 halls and 15,000 m2. of commercial space in the administrative building at 15 floors. The factory has the following capacities:

  • HQ: Headquarters
  • A1: two flow heat treatment lines, lines for grinding, assembly and packing of bearings in housings from series 204 to 212 in types UCF, UCP, UCFL, UCT with an annual capacity of 35,000,000 bearing units.
  • A2: machining of cast and forged housings for bearings and machine elements.
  • A3: iron foundry.
  • B1: pipe cutting and ring turning.
  • B2: production of high-precision balls of 6.35 mm. up to 15,875 mm.
  • B3: production of seals, cages and pressed metal parts.
  • B4: forge for cases and rings.

The total capacity of the factory is 60 million bearings, bearings units and agro-hub bearings per year, with a daily production of about 100 tons. The factory employs 600 people.

The factory is equipped with most modern machinery and equipment with highly applicable systems in robotics, automation and manufacturing processes in the bearing industry today!

Kompleks Z&R–Z&S, Linxi County
Z&R-Z&S factory in Linxi County, China.

Z&S production plant and central warehouse, Srbobran (Serbia)

From 2018 production plant and from 2025. storage facilities, completely renovated and new, are located at the location of the Production Plant in Srbobran, the former ŠIPAD factory.

The production consists of segments of a new grinding room, a space for assembly of bearings, as well as a warehouse space, a customs warehouse for raw materials and finished products. The total area is 14,500 m2, of which 5,000 m2 is under buildings.

Proizvodni pogon i magacin – Srbobran
Z&S production facility and central warehouse in Srbobran
Lagerhaus Pocking, Bayern
Agrobearings-Lagerhaus, Pocking, Germany

Agrobearings-Lagerhaus, warehouse of our goods, Germany

One of our warehouses is located in Pocking, Germany, right on the border with Austria. The warehouse position is deliberately located in that place in Germany, because the logistics connections from Germany for the distribution of goods throughout Europe are the most reliable, fastest and most favorable.

The warehouse is practically in the function of the company Agrobearings from Slovakia for the sale of small quantities of goods, because Agrobearings gives daily instructions to the warehouse to send the goods realized through its online platforms. The warehouse currently covers an area of ​​300 m2.

Agrobearings s.r.o., Komárno, Slovakia

Since 2013 we own our company Agrobearings s.r.o. which was founded in the Slovak Republic in the city of Komarno and through which we operate in the territory of the EU and beyond. This company aims to import bearings from Serbia and China for the needs of customers from all EU countries. Mediation between buyers of our products and organizations of logistics, distribution and delivery of bearings to them is the main task of this company.

The company has been operating with a respectable reputation for many years and provides service and information to all our customers. This company is also the founder and owner of all online platforms in most EU countries, through which wholesale and retail sales of our products are also carried out. Business is conducted in an office of 130 m2.

Proizvodni pogon i magacin – Srbobran
Agrobearings s.r.o., Komárno, Slovakia
Rani radovi u radionici, 1982.
1982.

Working on the first machine, the founder Zivko Grabez buys the first lathe on which he started working as a privately owned metal turner (in addition to working in a social enterprise) and begins to transfer his knowledge and experience to the development of ideas for his own production in the then small economy.

Radionica, 1984.
1984.

The founder Zivko Grabez won the first place at the competition of metal workers of the former Yugoslavia in Novi Sad, received a gold medal, a plaque of the city of Novi Sad and other awards as the best metal turner. Even then, he shows his exceptional ability in mechanical engineering, which will later be confirmed in the further development of the company.

Rani dokumenti, 1990.
1990.

A copy of the issued invoice for metalworking services, handwritten by Zivko Grabez.

1994.

Opening of an independent craft shop S.Z.R. "METALOUNIVERSAL" and the beginning of the purchase of other machines where Zivko within it, even before, already started working with bearings, as finished products from all world brands in this area, in terms of minor finishing and processing of bearings. So since then, Zivko and his family have started to "pass through their hands".

1997.

The first bearing was produced and Zivko's son Djuro Grabez opened the company "Zivko & Sinovi" d.o.o., which started the production of larger series of bearings and the procurement of raw materials.

2000.

Formation of the first plant for the production of bearings.

2004.

Development, constant procurement and purchase of other automatic machines and equipment for the production of bearings.

2010.

Expansion of production space and warehouse of finished products.

2013.

Establishment of Agrobearings s.r.o. in the Slovak Republic, as a daughter company of the parent company from Serbia, in order to better market our products and get closer to customers in the EU.

2019.

Our new space on the site of the former "Šipad" factory in Srbobran. In order to expand the production space, the industrial infrastructure was remodeled for our needs and in 2019, Zivko & SINOVI DOO - PRODUCTION PLANT SRBOBRAN was put into operation.

2021.

Zivko, the founder of the company, is still working hard in one of his workshops at the age of 70.

2021.

Beginning of cooperation with the Chinese company Z&R. Due to the similarity of the production program, the similarity in the history of both companies and the similarity of the business and market outlook, the idea of ​​a joint corporate connection is developing.

2023.

In Belgrade, the signing of a joint venture memorandum for a new factory in China.

2025.

In China, Hebei Province, Linxi District, the opening of the first production plant of the joint company Z&R-Z&S.

Our mission

In 2025, the company Zivko & Sinovi DOO made a turning point in its business by opening production facilities in China, which significantly increased its competitiveness and recognition of the Z&S brand on the market.

The opening of the R&D (development and innovation center) in Serbia is a signpost in which direction our company's business will develop.

The emphasis will be on the design and development of new types of bearings, primarily based on customer and market demand. The plan is to significantly employ young and professional staff in Serbia, who will form the backbone of business development and growth.

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Our vision

The goal of Z&S Bearings production is to take a place alongside the world's leading bearing manufacturers in the following period. We want our clients to recognize us for the quality of our products and as a partner who can respond to all the demands of a dynamic market that brings great changes and challenges.