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

Lifetime up - costs down

Lower costs and raise service life by eliminating lubrication and lowering maintenance works, everything delivered from stock immediately - that is the core idea and objective behind all igus® products, systems and services.

igus® plastics with their tested and proven properties in durability, friction and stability are the main focus of the igus® products.

We offer you 80,000 products from stock and from "Size One".

New products for a lubricant-free world

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.

Worldwide more than 50% of all lubricants leak into the environment (Environmental Protection Office Baden-Würtemberg)

With a worldwide yearly lubricants usage of 37,3 Mio. tons (RWTH Aachen) more than 18 Mio. tons leak into the environment.

According to an MIT survey, for example, damage caused by friction and wear costs six percent of the gross national product every year.

CEO Frank Blase:
Why lubricant free polymer bearings are such a hot topic today (Video)

Innovations with high performance plastics

Polymer plain bearings from igus® signifies the step from the plastic bushing to the proven and tested, and thereby calculable and quickly available, machine element.
The core of our research is to give accurate forecasts on the behavior of bearings, particularly the service life, based on continuously improved materials.

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

Tested and proven quality from igus®

Calculable service life - Free from lubrication

Managing without lubrication is the dream of every design engineer. The igus® polymer plain bearings make it a reality. After research spanning decades, an accurate calculation of the service life of polymer plain bearings is possible today.

Various iglidur® materials for very different application conditions.
A wide range of dimensions and applicable almost everywhere. Calculable service life!

Calculate service life online

CEO Frank Blase:
Why lubricant free polymer bearings are such a hot topic today (Video)

Install and forget - suitable solution from stock

lnnovative, quick to mount and high value products

Delivery from stock saving storage costs for you

Large range of products – Suitable solution found immediately

Time-saving tools on the web

Customized and ready-to-install supply of components

Swift project planning and consulting with an increasing network of local sales engineers in Germany and all over the world.

With the igus® maintenance-free polymer plain bearings, we can assist you in improving your products and at the same time reduce costs.

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The umbilical cord for your automation

E-ChainSystem® is like the umbilical cord of modern machines. They take care of the supply of energy, data and signals and are for this reason continuously in motion. We look upon it as our task to offer you all the components - E-Chain®, all cables and every accessory - as a single system and be accountable for the function.

igus® E-ChainSystem® offers a number of advantages for the design:

Electric, hydraulic and pneumatic energy, as well as digital signals - electric or with light - liquid media can be supplied in parallel

Space-saving installation

Low-noise operation

High accelerations can be fielded

Robust in wind, weathering, dirt accumulation and chemicals

Simple installation of the modular system on site

Quick installation and retrofit of cables

E-ChainSystem® product overview

CEO Frank Blase:
On the large construction kit for E-ChainSystems® (Video)

Chainflex® lasts or money back

For the customer, the production must go on without problems and an energy supply system should accordingly function smoothly. That presupposes the effortless performance of all components and the cables inserted in them. igus® was the first company to develop complete E-ChainSystem®. Chainflex® cables and E-Chain® are supplied from one source and - according to application - offered with a system guarantee. The design principles that today prevent machine downtimes in factories all over the world have originated and emerge from the know-how and elaborate series of research that have steadily grown since 1989.

Chainflex® lasts or money back