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Lubrication-free and maintenance-free products for the textile industry

In the textile industry, using lubrication-free and dust-resistant components has top priority. With the maintenance-free and tribologically optimised high-performance polymers from igus, these and many other requirements are fully complied with. igus products require no additional lubrication and impress due to their long service life and smooth running, even at high cycle rates in textile machines.

Benefits of igus products:

Cost-effective
Save installation space and weight
Maintenance-free for 24/7 use
Fast delivery and easy assembly
Complete system or individual components with no minimum order quantity
Service life calculation
Low noise and low vibration

The huge motion plastics sample box

Trying things out made easy: with the igus corner, you always have the most recent motion plastics that are suited for your individual industry sector at hand.

We will bring the display to you, assemble it upon request and fill the compartments with the products of your choice. Or you can set it up yourself. As a permanent exhibition or for a limited period of time.

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Free sample box for textile machines

See for yourself the quality of our motion plastics
The sample box contains the most important information and igus products for typical applications in the textile industry. These include among others energy supplies, plain bearings, pillow block bearings, clip bearings, spherical bearings and ball bearings, cables, tribo-tape and linear guides.

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Selected products for the textile industry

xiros radial deep groove ball bearings

Lubrication and maintenance-free and washable
Lightweight
Corrosion-resistant
Dirt-resistant

Ball bearings in the shop

iglidur plain bearings

Lubrication and maintenance-free
Resistant to corrosion and dirt
High resistance to pressure and wear
Low coefficient of friction
High mechanical dampening

Plain bearings in the shop

igubal spherical bearings

Lubrication and maintenance-free
Extremely cost-effective
Insensitive to dust and dirt
Corrosion-free
Can be used in liquid media

Spherical bearings in the shop

drylin W linear guide

Extremely cost-effective
Lubrication and maintenance-free
Corrosion-resistant
Quiet operation
Lightweight

Linear guides in the shop

Energy supply systems

High torsional resistance
Smallest inner heights and bend radii
Available as e-chains or fully enclosed e-tube
Cable-friendly interior
Extender crossbar for guiding suction hoses, for example

e-chains in the shop

chainflex cables

Four-year guarantee
Unharnessed or harnessed
Developed for moving applications
Predictable service life

Cables in the shop

Your component made to your design in the desired quantity and material

Special solutions are just as much part of the igus product range as standard parts. Our experts match the choice of the manufacturing process and the component material precisely to your needs. The right material for your purposes is selected from a wide range of wear-resistant and maintenance-free high-performance polymers.

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Customised automation system with the Apiro® modular gearbox system

Implement individual automation applications with the drygear® Apiro® modular gearbox system in an extremely modular and cost-effective way.
Typical application areas are lane adjustments, pusher tasks, gearboxes with various gear ratios, slewing rings and rotary axes.

Apiro modular gearbox system

Tested in the test laboratory for use in the real world

Glance into the dry-tech test laboratory: In the industry's largest test laboratory, iglidur plain bearings and drylin linear guides are tested regarding stress, wear and friction properties.

Glance into the test laboratory for e-chains and chainflex cables: At a total of 180 test stations, more than 10 billion test cycles are carried out per year with energy chains and igus cables.

Successfully in use in the textile industry

Lubrication-free plastic plain bearings in innovative weaving machine

The UniShed2 machine from Gitec GmbH operates without an electromechanical harness and instead uses vibrating axes that are supported in plain bearings from igus. For this purpose, bearing made of the high-performance polymer iglidur J3 are employed. They improved significantly the service life. Their freedom from lubrication ensures that no maintenance is required and no dust or dirt from the environment sticks to the bearing points.

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Flat knitting machine from Stoll with e-chains

Energy supply systems in flat knitting machine ensure quality and flexibility

The company Stoll relies on igus energy chains from the Series 27i in its knitting machines. They have to fulfil high requirements: in combination with strong accelerations (10m/s² in the normal range, up to 20m/s² for quick stops) and the sometimes poor ambient conditions, such as extreme heat and oily air, the internal copper cables and hoses must not break. Our e-chains easily withstand the more than 50 million movement cycles that are not uncommon in knitting machines.

Hem recognition sensor

By combining an igus plain bearing with a thin-walled metallic bushing, a light sensor could be built, which additionally leads to a cost reduction of 40%.

e-chain® enables fast operation of a wall cleaner

Until an e-chain was used in this wall cleaner, the electricity cable regularly got twisted, leading to short circuits and downtime of the plant. So as to avoid these incidents, the operator used e-chains by igus and the problem was solved.