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Without a cleanroom, it would be impossible to produce pharmaceutical products, microchips, OLEDs, LCDs or semiconductors. Because even the smallest contamination leads to an impairment and ultimately to the destruction of the product. Therefore, almost particle-free rooms with abrasion-resistant machine components are the be-all and end-all. For companies that manufactu...

igus expands its 3D printing service with the Print2Mould process using printed injection moulding tools. The user can now order their wear-resistant special part online in the appropriate lubrication-free and maintenance-free iglidur material. Injection moulding with 3D printing: 55 lubrication-free igus materials for individual wear-resistant parts igus expands 3D ...

In normal operation, lignite (brown coal) is extracted from the opencast mine and conveyed directly into the lignite-fired power station. However, if coal production is interrupted for any reason, it goes without saying that supplies must continue to go on generating energy. The operators of the power station, the ČEZ Group, do this by stockpiling large quantities of coa...

High temperatures not only create problems for many machine elements in plants but also conventional 3D printers. In order to develop new filaments for wear-resistant parts in high-temperature applications, igus has now built a high-temperature 3D printer. For the mechanical system, the igus engineers relied on heat-resistant stainless steel components of the maintenance...

If the user wants to produce an abrasion-resistant special part or a small batch then igus has the right solution with the 3D printing service. Call up www.igus.eu/3D-printservice, upload CAD data, select material and activate order. In this way the user – from hobbyists to major industrial customers – can quickly obtain igus's wear-resistant special solution. Most of th...

60,000 bottles per hour or 1,000 bottles per minute and just under 17 every second: this is the output of a typical beverage filling and packing plant of the KHS. The company, which is headquartered in Dortmund, is one of the market leaders worldwide, who develop, design and build such systems - turnkey on request. KHS employs approximately 5,000 people, generated sales ...

Automate simple tasks quickly, easily and cost-effectively: this is the goal of igus with its low-cost automation products. Besides its room gantries, the plastics specialist has now developed a completely new product in the form of a delta robot. It was presented to a specialist audience at the 2018 automatica in Munich. The robot is based on three maintenance-free dryl...