Plastic Bearings, Shafting, and Cable Carriers Ideal for Heavy Duty Industries

Components in heavy-duty machinery need to be able to stand up to harsh environmental conditions, including exposure to dirt and dust, extreme temperatures, oil, and even chemicals. While metal bearings and cable management solutions like festoons or cable reels are popular within heavy-duty applications, they're far from ideal. Durable, dry-running plastic iglide® bearings not only eliminate routine maintenance for bearing points, but they're resistant to dirt, dust, and corrosion, and can withstand high edge loads and surface pressures of up to 36,260 psi.

e-chain® cable carriers offer a more robust system of cable management for heavy-duty machinery than festoon, cable reels, or other alternatives. These polymer cable carriers offer an extensive service life with low maintenance; resist dirt, dust, chemicals, UV radiation and corrosion; minimize noise and vibration; and can be used for travels of over 1,000m.

Heavy Duty Industries:
Agriculture, Construction Machinery, EOT and Port Cranes, Oil and Gas, Offshore and Maritime, Bulk Material Handling and Mining, Fossil and Renewable Energy, Waste and Wastewater, Railway, Stone Processing

Heavy Duty Industries

Agriculture

Design efficient and long-lasting agricultural machinery with highly engineered, maintenance-free plastic components. Our durable iglide® bearing materials, embedded with solid lubricants for dry-running operation, can absorb high shock and impact loads.

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Construction Machinery

Our durable iglide® bearing materials can withstand high edge loads and surface pressures up to 36,260 psi. They’re also resistant to dirt, dust and corrosion. Additionally, we offer cable management solutions guaranteed to last up to 4 years. e-chain® cable carriers are resistant to shock, vibration, corrosion and UV rays. They can withstand loads of up to 403 lbs/ft. Explore more of our products and how they can be used in heavy-duty construction machinery.

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Bulk Material Handling & Mining

Bulk material systems must function reliably under rough and dirty working conditions and in harsh weather conditions. We offer plastic components for bulk material technology that can do just that and are particularly characterized by their resilience and long service life. This includes e-chains®, cables and hoses that are used, for example, in bucket wheel excavators, ship loaders, portal scrapers, wagon tippers, conveyor belts, silos, and hoppers. Our components are also used in mining equipment.

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Port & Terminal Cranes

For over 30 years, high-strength plastic e-chain® cable carriers have been trusted and proven on thousands of port and terminal cranes worldwide. While unforgiving environmental factors such as high winds, UV rays, saltwater and extreme temperatures can cause traditional cable management systems such as festoons to fail, energy chain cable carriers are able to withstand the harshest conditions while operating reliably.

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Oil & Gas

Machinery used for oil and gas extraction, such as drilling equipment, is frequently exposed to dirt, saltwater, vibrations, extreme temperatures, mechanical stress and risk of explosion. Downtime is costly in these conditions, but e-chains from igus® offer the high performance needed to ensure continuous, failsafe operation.

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EOT and Indoor Cranes

igus® e-chain® cable carriers are a durable and cost-effective alternative to bus bars festoons and cable reels. e-chain® systems are engineered with high-performance plastics and have space-saving designs, allowing for easy mounting either directly to the crane or on top.

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Offshore Equipment

From wind power plants to drilling vessels or oil drilling rigs, you can ensure reliable energy supply. Thanks to our engineering team and the chainflex® cables certified according to DNV/GL and NEK, ready-to-install complete systems are offered, specifically tailored for the offshore and the oil and gas industry.

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Maritime

iglide® plastic bushings and drylin® linear plain bearings are perfectly suited for applications in the marine industry. They are embedded with solid lubricants, which eliminate the need for external oil or grease, are corrosion resistant and maintenance-free. Materials with extremely low moisture absorption rates are also available.

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Woodworking

igus ® solutions help you to reduce installation, handling and throughput times. Time-consuming maintenance work can be minimized with dry running, chip-resistant solutions from a single source. Where there is dust and chips, the very tightly sealed energy supplies ensure the safe and secure movement of cables, hydraulic and pneumatic hoses in woodworking machines or CNC processing centers.

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