Clean, smooth-running components for printing technology

Tech up & Cost down with motion plastics for the printing industry

motion plastics: tribologically optimised plastic products that help to reduce the costs of your printing technology and increase its service life. Be it through the elimination of lubrication and maintenance thanks to our dry-operating bearing elements or through fail-safe cables and optimised cable guidance. We always offer the right solution for every purpose and every requirement from our 100,000 modular product range. Highly low-vibration cable carriers for maximum acceleration, whisper-quiet from 32 dB(A), highest data rates CAT7, 600 MHz and a 4-year guarantee.

Advantages of our products

Lubrication-, corrosion- and maintenance-free for 24/7 use
Insensitive to pressurised powder and paper dust
Vibration-damping and quiet running
Space and weight saving
Available from stock
Cost-effective
Complete system or individual components from batch size 1
Fast delivery and easy installation
Long, predictable service life

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Success stories

Low-vibration energy chain for high print quality in large-format printers

Almost anything can be printed with the "Virtu" large-format printer: sheet metal, foils, textiles, wood, glass and, of course, paper that is up to 3.5 metres wide. A print head moves over the medium to be printed at a speed of up to 3 metres per second. As any vibration would impair the print image, our smooth and quiet E6 energy chain is used.

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Cable guides for reliable media supply for large-format printers

"Heleva" is an intelligent, automatic material feed system for print media to large-format plotters. As high productivity around the clock and short loading times are required, the feed must operate without failure. igus energy chains and chainflex cables guarantee the reliable movement of the suction devices for holding the print media as well as smooth movement sequences.

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Conveyor rollers with xiros ball bearings in adhesive seal printers

Conveyor rollers with xiros ball bearings 100 per cent free of lubricants

Our xiros ball bearings are used in the conveyor rollers of the adhesive seal printer of a well-known manufacturer in the field of pioneering adhesive solutions. They are half the price and available more quickly than the ball bearings previously used. Users also benefit from the low weight, low friction and, above all, the fact that the plastic ball bearings are lubrication-free.

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Maintenance-free lead screw technology in the book scanner

In a book scanner for digitalising cultural assets, lubrication-free drylin trapezoidal lead screw nuts are used in combination with metallic threaded inserts. The nuts are custom-made from our wear-resistant material iglidur W300 and impress with their absolute freedom from lubrication and maintenance.

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