Motion plastics for the food industry

Our high‑performance polymers for the food industry operate entirely without lubrication and can be sterilised using hot steam or cleaned with aggressive chemical agents. They meet the strict requirements of modern food‑processing machinery and production environments. Their blue colouring ensures easy visual detection, and they deliver all the well‑known igus® benefits, including:

FDA‑compliant materials and certification in accordance with EU Regulation 10/2011
Operation without lubrication, eliminating any risk of product contamination
High temperature resistance and complete corrosion immunity
Very low moisture absorption
Strong resistance to chemicals, acids, alkaline solutions and alcoholic cleaning agents
Maintenance‑free performance
Exceptional wear resistance

Selected motion plastics for the food industry

Knife edge rollers

High wear resistance
Long service life
Lubrication-free
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Blue iglidur A181 plain bearing bushing on a white background.

iglidur® A181 plain bearings

Compliant with FDA and EU regulations
Good media-resistance
Universal installation
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Blue plastic rod shown in close-up on a white background.

iglidur® A350 bar stock

FDA-compliant
For use with temperatures up to +180 °C
Lubrication and maintenance-free
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Blue tribo tape roll with a strip extending to the right.

iglidur® A160 liner

Low coefficient of friction
High wear resistance
FDA-compliant
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igubal bearing block with four mounting holes and a blue inner ring.

igubal® fixed flange bearings

Cost-effective
Corrosion-resistant
Easy installation
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drylin linear slide with threaded spindle and aluminium carriage blocks.

Linear modules SLW

Stainless-steel version and corrosion-free
Dirt-resistant
Clean & hygienic
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Configure your system

chainflex control cable with visible internal structure and stranded conductor cross-section.

chainflex® cables

Small bend radius
Cost-effective, long-life cables
Hydrolysis and microbe resistant
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TH3 – hygienic e-chain®

Hygienic Construction
Blue colour
FDA and EU Compliant
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In depth information on the new solutions for food and packaging

There are new regulations that, as an industry are pushing us to the limits. Regulations like FDA compliance changes and the Bisphenol A ban.

These challenges make us more determined to provide solutions that are compliant and in this video, we want to share some of these solutions.

Solutions such as:

The modular Aprio gear boxes with new zinc diecast housing
BPA/ BPS free iglidur A351 material.
Hygienic mono block linear guide, EHEDG certified
New 3d printing resin- iglidur i6000,

Application examples of our customers

Impact huller for grain products

Abrasive dust and grain husks are an extreme load for the components in impact hullers in the food industry. The designers therefore turned to drylin® fixed flange bearings to reduce downtime, minimise operating costs and also improve the technology.
Streckel & Schrader GmbH & Co. KG

Fully automatic multihead weighers

FDA-compliance and without any lubrication
iglidur® plain bearings and drylin® R linear guides are used in multihead weighers of the company Atoma GmbH. The components used are lubrication-free and insensitive to very thorough cleaning processes in food production.
Atoma GmbH

Waffle baking machines

Stability and long service life
The company Walterwerk has been relying on lubrication-free bearing technology from igus® for many years. It is suitable for use in adverse ambient conditions, where machines are regular cleaned with aggressive media.
Walterwerk Kiel GmbH & Co. KG

Sausage cutting machine

Reduce maintenance intervals and lower costs
drylin® linear guides, trapezoidal lead screws and igubal® flange bearings from igus® are used extremely precisely in sausage cutting machines of Singer & Sohn and, in contrast to needle bearings, are characterised by robustness, ease of cleaning and resistance to chemicals.
Singer & Sohn GmbH

Cutting machines

Successful cooperation for more than 20 years
In cutting machines of the company Treif, speed and acceleration play an important role. Corrosion-resistant drylin® linear beings and drylin® shafts are used.
Treif Maschinenbau GmbH