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Record-low costs and sustainability: our new slewing ring bearing

igus is adding a ready-to-install low-cost variant made from regranulated high-performance plastics to its iglidur PRT series

It is affordable, compact, lightweight and ready to install with a mouse click: igus has added a minimalist low-cost variant to the portfolio of its iglidur PRT series of slewing ring bearings. The PRT-05-15-PC not only reduces costs, but also protects the environment. The new slewing ring bearing consists of 97% regranulated high-performance plastics.

Roller chain links reduce drive energy for the E4.1 energy chain series by 37%

Good news for users of the igus E4.1 energy chain series: newly developed roller chain links reduce required drive power by 37%. This allows customers to reduce their electricity costs in times of sharply rising energy prices.

Equip energy chains directly with smart condition monitoring in the igus online configurator and avoid unnecessarily early replacement.

Extended igus solar pillow block bearing series for square profiles, impresses in laboratory tests with a service life of over 72 years

Save installation space and weight with just one cable for power and data: it's easy with harnessed igus readycable hybrid cables available through Treotham Automation. New to the range are ready-to-connect cables suitable for SEW-EURODRIVE with MOVILINK DDI and Siemens SINAMICS S210 with OCC. In addition to PUR, the latter is also available with an outer jacket made of cost-effective PVC. Macros for the EPLAN Electric P8 software speed up cable planning by around 50%.

igus presents design study for automatic and compact cable retraction system

Man, machine – or both? Humanoid robots are no longer science fiction, they are reality. igus has been researching humanoid robotics for some time and has now presented a prototype of the motion plastics bot: a humanoid robot that combines the advantages of high-performance plastics and Low Cost Automation. The robotics components are available from Treotham Automation.

Whether mountain bikes for outdoor use, record-breaking light racing bikes or ultra-robust e-cargo bikes: Treotham presents new igus components made of high-performance plastic as an alternative to metal solutions for the bikes of the future – including light and lubricant-free polymer plain bearings for mountain bikes, wear-resistant gears for e-bike motors and robust rod ends for e-cargo bikes.

Whether in an industrial environment or in a coffee machine, in order to maximize the service life of a linear guide and to keep the required drive energy low, it is important to reduce friction and wear as much as possible. igus, a motion plastics specialist, has now achieved a breakthrough in tribological plastics: With iglidur E3, igus has developed a new sliding material that has a friction coefficient that is up to 40 percent better and thus opens up design flexibility in linear technology for users for the first time from the classic 2:1 Rule expanded to 3:1. The new iglidur E3 sliding material is available from Treotham.

Cradle-to-cradle: This is the principle of the circular economy, which is abased on nature. The aim: to return consumer goods to the biological or technical cycle in order to conserve valuable resources and raw materials. The motion plastics specialist igus is also pursuing this goal and has now developed the world’s first energy chain made from recycled material on the basis of its own “chainge” e-chain recycling program.