Dry-running drylin® linear bearings also run in wood dust!

More and more forest owners, craftsmen, farmers or sawyers know the advantages of the mobile saw mills: The saw arrives on four wheels anytime at any site where the wood is to be processed. Whether it is planks, beams or bars, various model sizes and price classes fulfill every customer requirement. "Today we have over 1000 mobile and stationary units in use worldwide," reports CEO Hans Fritz. "We are one of the leading manufacturers with over 400 wide-belt saw mills sold in Germany alone. "Manfred Rosam, director of the design office:
 
"We want to offer innovations to our customers continuously. First of all, the topic of weight saving plays a great role in our efforts. Here the plastic bearings from igus® naturally plays a special role. “
 
The light but sturdy polymer bearings are used wherever rotary or displacement movements are necessary in sawmills. They replace ball bearings or lubricated steel-on-steel guides. The level compensation makes it particularly suitable for extremely rough use. Here every trunk is individually leveled, the wood clamped and pressed on the support plates. The "iglidur® J" material for the linear guide lamination ensures excellent coefficients of friction. It has been designed especially for linear applications. The drylin® linear guide system is a dry-running system, i.e. it lubricates itself dry and is extremely insensitive to dirt and is sturdy.
 
"We've been using the linear guide lamination in various saw mills for about six years. They proved their worth from the start," testifies Manfred Rosam.

PRT slewing ring bearings move freely without lubrication and maintenance !

Niles-Simmons has now started relying on "iglidur" polymer slewing ring bearings which need neither lubrication nor maintenance to move its control consoles. The cantilever arm system for the control consoles used to be delivered as a complete unit from one supplier.
 
"However, we wanted to give our machines their own face," reports designer Jens Liebscher. "Therefore we decided on the design of our own control console which looks good with the machining centre it is used with." “
 
It needed to rotate easily and we wanted to make it possible to raise it as well. Two polymer slewing ring bearings installed as a complete unit are used in the newly designed control console. The polymer gliding elements are made from a material called "iglidur® J". In addition to its main purpose, freedom from maintenance and lubricants, the slewing ring bearings are highly wear resistant. They also have a low coefficient of friction which ensures little force is needed to swivel the console.

Giving machines their own face: even the control console on this machine tool from Niles-Simmons Industrieanlagen GmbH, Chemnitz, was designed by the company. It swivels easily and can be raised.