Method for producing a longitudinally slotted bush bearing sleeve (330, 340) coated at least on one side with an adhesion promoter, the circumferential front faces of which have a predetermined distance of several millimeters from each other comprising the steps: - providing a metal tape roll placed on a tape dispenser, wherein the metal tape is coated at least on one side with an adhesion promoter; - unrolling the metal strip and feeding the coated metal tape to a roll forming device in which the metal tape is longitudinally profiled between rotating upper and lower rolls (42a, b, 43a, b); - feeding the coated longitudinally profiled metal tape to a separating device, in particular to a cutting shears device; - cutting to length a coated longitudinally profiled metal strip with a predetermined length in the cutting device; - feeding the coated longitudinally profiled metal strip to a 2-roll sheet metal bending device in which a winding mandrel, that is forced in the radial direction, rolls off on the circumference of a deforming roll that has a roll body that is resilient to the winding mandrel, wherein the axes (140a, 130a) of the winding mandrel and of the deforming roll are substantially parallel to each other and wherein the circumferential surface of the winding mandrel is contoured correspondingly to the profiling of the metal strip and the diameter of the deforming roll is more than three times the diameter of the winding mandrel; - deforming the coated longitudinally profiled metal strip in the bending device into a slotted sleeve (330, 340) by moving the metal strip perpendicularly to the axes (140a, 130a) of the winding mandrel and of the deforming roll and between them so that the metal strip is wound around the winding mandrel; - moving away the deforming roll and of the winding mandrel relatively from each other and axial removing of the slotted sleeve from the winding mandrel; - receiving and inserting the slotted sleeve into a calibrating device; - calibrating the slotted sleeve in the calibrating station into a calibrated slotted bush bearing sleeve (330, 340) with a predetermined distance between the two opposing circumferential front faces and the predetermined diameter. - providing a metal tape roll placed on a tape dispenser, wherein the metal tape is coated at least on one side with an adhesion promoter; - unrolling the metal strip and feeding the coated metal tape to a roll forming device in which the metal tape is longitudinally profiled between rotating upper and lower rolls (42a, b, 43a, b); - feeding the coated longitudinally profiled metal tape to a separating device, in particular to a cutting shears device; - cutting to length a coated longitudinally profiled metal strip with a predetermined length in the cutting device; - feeding the coated longitudinally profiled metal strip to a 2-roll sheet metal bending device in which a winding mandrel, that is forced in the radial direction, rolls off on the circumference of a deforming roll that has a roll body that is resilient to the winding mandrel, wherein the axes (140a, 130a) of the winding mandrel and of the deforming roll are substantially parallel to each other and wherein the circumferential surface of the winding mandrel is contoured correspondingly to the profiling of the metal strip and the diameter of the deforming roll is more than three times the diameter of the winding mandrel; - deforming the coated longitudinally profiled metal strip in the bending device into a slotted sleeve (330, 340) by moving the metal strip perpendicularly to the axes (140a, 130a) of the winding mandrel and of the deforming roll and between them so that the metal strip is wound around the winding mandrel; - moving away the deforming roll and of the winding mandrel relatively from each other and axial removing of the slotted sleeve from the winding mandrel; - receiving and inserting the slotted sleeve into a calibrating device; - calibrating the slotted sleeve in the calibrating station into a calibrated slotted bush bearing sleeve (330, 340) with a predetermined distance between the two opposing circumferential front faces and the predetermined diameter.