Plastics for longer life® - Increase the service lives of your machines with plastics

No lubrication, less maintenance, lower costs and longer life cycles, these key principles apply to all igus® products and systems. Tried and tested in terms of durability, friction properties and stability, igus® plastics are the technological core of the igus® range.

The use of dry-running polymer bearings allows money to be saved and machine safety to be increased. Lubricant and maintenance-free plastic plain bearings, on the other hand, are gentle on the environment.

Low weight and corrosion resistance, as well as freedom from maintenance and lubrication enable a solution for almost all applications.

Products:

Energy Chain cable carriers
E-ChainSystems® are the umbilical cord of modern machines. They minimize downtime, protect, support and extend the service life of cables and hoses. E-Chain®, igus® E-Chains® are capable of long and short travel distances at high speeds in all axes.
Universal Applications
Many different movement and mounting possibilities.

Carry sensitive bus, data and fiber optic cables and energy sources such as electricity, gas, air and liquids.

Accommodate very high dynamic loads and stringent service life requirements.

Operation in a wide range of environments and climates.

Space-saving installation.

High levels of acceleration possible.

Modular systems offer simple assembly on-site and rapid retrofitting of cables.

Sample applications
Chainflex continuous-flex cables
Chainflex® continuous-flex cables deliver longer life and better performance and are ideal for demanding applications on all types of automated machinery. Chainflex® cables are tested over millions of cycles in all types of conditions to ensure optimal performance and can handle tight bending radii in dynamic applications. The range includes control, data, bus, position feedback, fiber optic, coax, servo, power and robot cables. igus® also offers custom cables, as well as pre-harnessed cables for drive technology.
Assembled pre-harnessed cable carriers
Instead of spending valuable time assembling an E-ChainSystem®, now engineers can focus on what they were hired to do. igus® pre-assembled E-Chains® come with cables, hoses, connectors, & accessories, as required, and are delivered ready-to-install on your machine.
Order only what you need
Customize as much or as little as you want
You choose the length
Save both time and money

With an igus® ReadyChain® system, you receive a complete out-of-the-box solution: no more fumbling with cables, connectors, separators, mounting brackets and other accessories.
iglide plain bearings igus® develops materials that fulfill the maintenance-free bearing requirements of today's design engineers, namely:
Bearings capable of withstanding high loads.
Bearings with a low coefficient of friction.
Bearings with guaranteed wear resistance.
Disadvantages of plastics can be substantially reduced both by material development and the design of a bearing. Thus iglide® bearings are thin-walled