Bar stock made of motion plastics® with a predictable service life

Customised solution

This machine for the production of technical brushes contains parts made of iglidur® bar stock that were designed and milled by the customer themselves.

Made of bar stocks: components made of iglidur® reduce maintenance costs

In a tyre soaping station, metal bearings were used up to now, which regularly led to a breakdown of the system. Now, these bearings have been replaced with plastic bearings made of igus® bar stocks . This saves costs of several thousand Euro per year.

High number of cycles

Plastic plate bar stock as bearings with a large contact surface withstand even a very high number of cycles in this application.

Individual iglidur® component for melting probe

The "IceMole" is a melting probe, with which the polar regions, glaciers and as a long-term objective extraterrestrial regions are to be explored. For storing the ice screw, a component was needed that is water- and dirt-resistant and  thermally insulated. Therefore, a bearing is used that was made of iglidur® A180 bar stock.

Special bearings for highest precision in ophthalmology

iglidur® bar stock is used to manufacture a microscope arm for eye examinations. The reason: it can be machined to produce customised plain bearings down to sizes measured in μm to ensure the necessary precision for examinations.  

Durable plain bearings for night vision devices

The company ACTinBlack SARL tested more than 30 materials and was close to giving up the project when they came upon the material iglidur® JB, which offered the perfect solution for their problem. Eliminating possible weak points was a general goal of the developers.  

Durable and wear-resistant plain bearings for finger prosthesis

This prosthesis is an electrically powered finger. The joint at the base of the finger is moved directly via a gear motor, which carries along the middle joint via a flexible connection. All axes involved in this movement are mounted through plastic sockets made of the material iglidur® J. Altogether, eight bearings are integrated in one finger.