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Increase the service lives of your machines with plastics
igus® GmbH | plastics for longer life®
Increase the service life of machinery with plasticsFounded in 1964 in Cologne, igus® is the leading manufacturer of energy chains® (drag chains) and energy chain systems® with cables, connectors and all accessories as well as maintenance-free polymer bearings. igus® has 30 branches worldwide in addition to around 53 sales partners from 42 countries. igus® employs 1,900 people, about 1,000 of them at its headquarters in Cologne.
• igus® was founded in 1964• igus® has branches in 30 countriesand sales partners in 42 countries
• igus® employs about 1900 people worldwide at present
• igus® develops between 1500 and 2500 new products and product extensions every year
• Over 80,000 products from stock!• Daily delivery and consultation from 7-20 hrs and
Increase the service lives of your machines with plastics
igus® GmbH | plastics for longer life®
Delivery from stock in 24 h or today
On average in recent months over 97 percent of all 80,000 igus® catalog items asked for were immediately available. This trend is on the rise. The catalog items must be in stock in order to assemble and ship the structural components according to customer's requirements within hours. igus® delivers from stock within 24 hours or the same day. igus® delivers from a single unit and without any minimum quantity surcharges. The increased demand for ready-to-install energy chain systems®, the so-called readychains®, is supported by an organic growth of the factory, such as 3,500 m² of extended area for production of these turnkey systems. Assembled with special cables, hoses, connectors and all accessories, the complete systems are available in one to ten days depending on the degree of difficulty. In addition we have established a new on-site installation service covering a large area, which includes a guarantee and final report for the customer.
Increase the service lives of your machines with plastics
igus® GmbH | plastics for longer life®
Over 111 new products (in 2011) – cost less, last longerYear after year, igus® provides an array of innovations and enhancements in the area of energy chains®, chainflex® cables and polymer plain bearings. In 2011 igus® introduced a record number of 111 product novelties. Contracts obtained with new plastic products, numerous compared to suppliers of metal solutions, prompt igus® to invest more heavily in material and product development. Thus, now in Antwerp, instead of a steel chain, the largest and maintenance-free plastic energy chain® in the world – the "E4.350" – is used to pump mud from the dock. Or the vertically traveling energy chain system® "guidelok" for storage and retrieval units, which does not require the continuous metallic trough anymore and thus reduces the trough costs by 80 percent.
In the second area – the polymer bearings – too, igus® relies on new products and materials. Lubrication- and maintenance-free iglidur® plastic plain bearings today replace millions of metallic bushings that need oil or grease. They also have a long and predictable life. And with over 10,000 items in stock, designers can use these innovations at once. The past year brought a further big boost in this regard. Because, the dry-running polymer bearings save money and increase the safety of machinery. An MIT study estimated the failure costs through insufficient lubrication in the U.S. alone at 240 billion dollars per year.
Increase the service lives of your machines with plastics
igus® GmbH | plastics for longer life®
About 60 percent more factory space, streamlined processesigus® manufactures, tests and researches in Cologne now in a building area of 36,000 m2. The factory area has been extended to 29,000 m2, added to which are 7,000 m2 of surrounding buildings for, inter alia, additional fabrication, technical training and a large logistics center. A renewed enlargement is planned for late 2012. In the course of the factory extension, igus® has closely examined all departments: from marketing and administration to research and development, tool design and production through to warehousing and distribution.http://www.igus.de/wpck/default.aspx?pagename=initiative&wt.mc_id=SLSH01
Increase the service lives of your machines with plastics
igus® GmbH | plastics for longer life®
Own test facilities, more than 1,000 m² of test labThe test laboratory for energy chains® and cables from igus® currently has 1030 m². Our new standard products and customized energy chains® are constantly tested at more than 70 different test rigs. Many test rigs are designed and built by ourselves, since they are highly test specific. The test laboratory spectrum ranges from climate cabinet, freezer containers and low-reflection anechoic chamber, tests on six-axis robots and other torsion machines through test rigs for dynamic simulations (bending cycle, etc.) up to external test facility for long energy chain® travel.
Increase the service lives of your machines with plastics
igus® GmbH | plastics for longer life®
Over 10,000 tests annually in the igus® technology centerEvery year we conduct more than 10,000 tests in the in-house technology center. The trend is growing. In addition to 7,500 tests with polymer plain bearings, spherical plain bearings, ball bearings and linear plain bearings, there are around 3,000 energy chain® tests plus 400 cable tests (1,000 different types). Focus of extensive tests are service life, push and pull forces, friction coefficients, wear, drive forces/energy efficiency and abrasion under the most varied speeds and loads as well as factors such as dirt, weather conditions, cold or bumps and impacts. The goal is to continuously push the application limits upwards. A long-term test – on service life – has recently been completed, which ran for over nine and a half years; 270 million double strokes were covered in this time. A total of about 9,000 test results are incorporated into the electronic databases every year. Moreover, we have numerous products inspected and certified (Fraunhofer, TÜV) by independent agencies for select properties (cleanroom compatibility, noise emissions, ESD, explosion protection, etc.).
Increase the service lives of your machines with plastics
igus® GmbH | plastics for longer life®
Reduce process costs, calculate service life onlineSave process costs with Internet tools. From automatic "filling expert" on energy chains® through a "chains expert" for the selection and design of energy supply systems up to the product finder for chainflex® cables and a configurator for hydraulic hoses. Moreover, igus® is the world's only provider of energy chains® to offer the product‘s service life prediction online. Furthermore, igus® offers a service life prediction for xiros® polymer ball bearings, a 3D-CAD configurator for drylin® linear systems as well as customized online catalog with display of prices and delivery times. The extensive range meanwhile includes 26 online tools specifically for engineers. http://www.igus.de/wpck/default.aspx?pagename=online_tools&wt.mc_id=SLSH01
Increase the service lives of your machines with plastics
igus® GmbH | plastics for longer life®
97% availability of all productsFrom stock within 24 hours or the same day. On average in recent months over 97 percent of all 80,000 igus®
catalog items asked for were immediately available. The catalog items must be in stock in order to facilitate the assembly and shipment within hours according to customer requirements. There is no minimum quantity surcharge and we supply even one unit.
Increase the service lives of your machines with plastics
igus® GmbH | plastics for longer life®
Almost every energy supply system immediately and safely out of the box. Configured in minutes, delivered in hours, built for years. The e-chainsystem® is a core element of your machine. A failure can cost a lot of money! The standstill and failure of machines and fixtures make the industrial countries pay for a macro-economic damage corresponding to the loss of about 5% of the gross national product – in Germany about €38 billion per year. (Source: DICHT!; 01/2006, "Maschinenstillstand muss nicht sein" (Machines must not be stopped), pages 6-7)
Increase the service lives of your machines with plastics
igus® GmbH | plastics for longer life®
New products for a lubrication-free worldSave money and increase the reliability of machinery with dry-running polymer bearings. Lubrication- and maintenance-free plastic plain bearings are also friendly to the environment: • Worldwide more than 50% of the lubricants is discharged into the environment.(Landesanstalt für Umweltschutz Baden-Würtemberg)
• From an annual global lubricant consumption of 37.3 million tons, over 18 million tons thus reach the environment without any protection (RWTH Aachen)
• Downtime costs due to insufficient lubrication in the U.S. alone amount to 240 billion dollars (MIT)
• Over 50% of all bearing damage … is caused by faulty lubrication.• Over 15 million tons of lubricants … pollute the environment every year.• Over 700 billion USD per year … are lost by wastage of resources due to friction wear through faulty
lubrication. (Data: Loss of U.S. 240 billion USD - U.S. GDP, 29% of global GDP -> estimated global loss of 828 billion. (http://www.machinerylubrication.com)) 47.7 billion USD for Germany – GDP Germany 6% of global GDP -> estimated $ 795 billion)
Increase the service lives of your machines with plastics
Wear and friction are a central problem in any industry. With our own specially developed plastics we design, produce and sell machine parts that last longer AND at the same time cost less.igus® helps you to reduce your storage costs by 25% and offers you technical advantages such as freedom from lubricants!
We call our plastics "tribopolymers".Tribology is the science of friction and wear.
Increase the service lives of your machines with plastics
… 80,000 products off the shelf
e-chains®
and accessoriese-chainsystems® -the umbilical cord of modern machines. Tailor-made off stock.
chainflex®
cablesSpecial cables for e-chains® - tested, tested, tested. Over 950 types off the shelf.
readychains®
assemblingReady-to-install e-chainsystems® for your machines. The complete system delivered in 3 to 8 days!
pickchain®
conveyor chainThe intelligent conveyor chains for pick & place solutions. Machine components for machinery and equipment manufacturers in the automation sector.
iglidur®
plain bearingsIncrease holding times, lower costs and do away with lubrication. 7000 types off the shelf.
igubal®spherical bearingsThe complete range of self-aligning maintenance-free bearings made from sliding plastics. 800 types off the shelf.
drylin® linear plain bearingsLubrication-free, light, silent, modular, durable, economical, tailor-made off stock. Over 1800 types off the shelf.
xiros®
polymer ball bearingsLubrication free up to 150° C, from stock!
iglidur®
semi-finished productsiglidur® now processed as round material or even in the shape of your choice.
igus® GmbH | plastics for longer life®
The igus® product groups
drylin®
drive systemsLubrication-free spindle-lift tables, toothed belt axes and linear units in various material and shaft combinations.
robolinkmultiple-axis joint for robotsVarious movement mechanisms integrated in one component.
Increase the service lives of your machines with plastics
Fail-safe round the clock even with aggressive cleaning agents. No maintenance or lubrication required, here iglidur® plain bearings in a bottle washing machine.
Increase the service lives of your machines with plastics
For high loads and extreme dust and dirt igubal® pillow block bearings are predestined in this stone-grinding plant. Fail-safe and maintenance-free, round the clock.
Increase the service lives of your machines with plastics
Prohibition of lubricants in this packaging machine – made possible by igus® plastics –here: iglidur® G plain bearings, drylin® T , igubal® rod end bearings
Increase the service lives of your machines with plasticsThe vibration dampening properties of polymer plain bearings call for the use of drylin® T linear guide systems here. The adjustment of the pressing roller and the compensation of the imbalance of the grinding tools are implemented here with drylin® T in place of recirculating ball-bearing guides.
Increase the service lives of your machines with plastics
The EURO-C welding tongue is used in the automotive industry for the spot welding of body parts. Due to the welding spatter and dust, the use of the extremely dirt-repellent drylin® T linear guide system finds the balance between high service life and low costs.
Increase the service lives of your machines with plastics
triflex® R, the igus® robot chain. Designed for extreme movements and long service life. One piece, quickly mounted, in many versions. Smart accessories for customizing, delivered to your robot system.
Increase the service lives of your machines with plastics
E4 e-chain® in a tidal turbine. A plastic e-chain® makes any kind of maintenance on the open sea obsolete and was the only eligible solution; a conventional metal chain would not be adequate for the combination of technical, climatic and mechanical requirements.
Increase the service lives of your machines with plasticsE4 e-chain® in a reflector telescope. The position at 2200 meters requires a high degree of robustness from the used components to withstand high wind speeds, snow and ice, and increased UV radiation. Used here are several series of igus® e-chains®, which meet these requirements perfectly well.
Increase the service lives of your machines with plasticsE4/4 system as so-called "RBR" version. Energy supply system in a circular motion for a large harbor crane.
Increase the service lives of your machines with plastics
Highly dynamic applications are the ideal work site for the igus® E6 systems. Low vibration, low abrasion and very quiet, highly flexible and long lasting!
Increase the service lives of your machines with plastics
As T3, E3 and E6 systems have virtually low abrasion by their special constructional design, you'll find them often in cleanroom applications. IPA-tested!
Increase the service lives of your machines with plasticsE6 system mounted in 90° rotation. Camera application ith cornering and long travels and high speeds.Low vibration, low noise.
Increase the service lives of your machines with plastics
Low-cost automationigus® GmbH | plastics for longer life®
Low-cost automation as future market. igus® relies on a variety of products quickly from stock. Specific additional benefits for "just right" engineering – plastics increasingly combined with electronics.
Increase the service lives of your machines with plastics
Online tools
Online service life prediction for e-chains®, iglidur®, igubal®, drylin® and chainflex®. The energy chains® shelving configurator, Quickpin 2.0 connector/cable configuratordrylin® configurator and quick product finder, 3D-CAD download center …
igus® GmbH | plastics for longer life®
... and many other useful tools online at www.igus.de
Increase the service lives of your machines with plastics
All-round package for plastic plain bearings and e-chainsystems®
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