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

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Selected motion plastics for the food industry

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