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How igus products increase the service life of your extrusion line and avoid production downtime

Christian Schäfer | 21. April 2020

During extrusion polymers are continuously melted and extracted through the extrusion die and brought into shape. In this way, bar stock such as filaments, profiles, plates or films emerge;

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Ball bearings in manual sweepers: plastic defies dirt

Patrick Czaja | 2. February 2021

Manual sweepers are used both at home and in the industrial sector. Sweeping dirt and leaves on pavements or driveways with a leaf/sweeping broom is tedious, sweeping machines are

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Metal or plastic? – four reasons for polymer bearings

Lars Butenschön | 3. April 2020

…examine this issue more closely and attempt to explain the advantages of replacing metallic bearings with plastic ones.

1. Polymer bearings are really maintenance-free

In industry, maintenance of machines

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Why plastic link rollers? Part 1

Bastian Mehr | 3. April 2020

…are all the so-called 2K rollers. These are usually composed of a ball bearing and a plastic jacket. Solid plastic rollers are seeing more and more frequent use. And there…

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What is iglidur? – And what can it do better than POM?

Lars Butenschön | 1. July 2020

In the Internet and other literature you can find endless variations of “plastic pyramids“, data sheets and exemplary experiments. But how do you know which plastic is the right

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