Needle Roller Thrust Bearings are both have a form-stable cage to reliably guide and retain a large number of needle rollers. The diameter deviations of the rollers within one assembly are within 2 μm. Due to this, the bearings accommodate heavy axial loads and shock loads. These bearings provide a high degree of stiffness within a minimum axial space. In applications where the faces of adjacent machine components can serve as raceways and the space that needle roller thrust bearings take up no more space than a conventional thrust washer.