Plastic rod and plates made from iglidur® materials

Customised solution

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

Made of plastic rod: 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® plastic rods. This saves costs of several thousand Euro per year.

High number of cycles

Plastic plate plastic rod 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 plastic rod.

Special bearings for highest precision in ophthalmology
iglidur® plastic rod 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 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.