Wear-resistant coating for your components

Do you want to improve the sliding properties of your components? Or do you have components that need to be protected against wear? This is possible with our coating. Our coating powders consist of high-performance polymers and are tribologically optimised. This means that they reduce the coefficient of friction and ensure low wear.

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The advantages of iglidur® powder coating at a glance

Longer service life

Our plastic coating extends the service life of your components. The coating serves as a wear layerso that the underlying surface remains undamaged. At the same time, it improves the coefficient of friction of your component.

Easy

iglidur® Coating reduces the complexity of your application, as no additional components are required. Coating can also be used where Little installation space restricts your room for manoeuvre.

Versatile

You can use iglidur® powder coating in various applications. These include, for example, use at high temperatures up to 300 °C, contact with food and chemicals.

How iglidur® powder coating works

iglidur® Coating can be applied to electrically conductive surfaces. This is done with the help of an electrostatic powder coating process. The coating powder is evenly distributed on the surface to be coated and forms a homogeneous layer.

The coating thickness can be customised. However, it should be noted that the conductivity of the component surface and therefore the adhesion of the powder decreases as the layer thickness increases. The layer thickness is usuallybetween 60 and 120μm. Under favourable conditions ,up to 500 μm can be achieved.

The coatings are based on thermoplastic polymers, which are mixed with various fillers and solid lubricants and processed into a powder. Coated components no longer need to be lubricated and have an improved coefficient of friction.

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Component is coated with iglidur material

With the iglidur® Coating Designer, you can have your customised component coated by us in just a few steps. Simply upload CAD, receive an immediate price quote and enquire or order.

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Order powder and coat yourself

Order iglidur® powder for plastic coating directly in our online shop and coat your components yourself. Various coating materials and container sizes are available.

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Here iglidur® Coating is in use

Reduced wear and reduced processing times for packaging machines

A manufacturer of packaging and processing machines has reduced frictional resistance, improved rigidity, shortened throughput times and increased hygiene standards on a series of machines by applying an iglidur® IC-05 tribo-coating to a sliding carriage.

Since the 60-100 micrometre thin lubricating coating is FDA approved, contact with food is also no problem in this application. The previous rollers made of uncoated metallic material carried the potential risk of packaging material contamination even though the machine was regularly cleaned.

Coated springs for Venetian blinds with iglidur coating

For this application, springs were coated with an iglidur coating material and used for guidance of window blinds. The manufacturer was faced with the problem that lubricants did not last over the entire service life of the blinds. So he tested springs with an iglidur IC-02 coating.

Although the springs touched the aluminium housing in the test, the coated spring survived the housing. In addition, there was no noise generation by the springs in the test. Thanks to the coating, the use of grease can now be completely eliminated.

Plates for pole mounting with iglidur IC-02 coating

Until now, wear pads made of aluminium and a POM material have been used in this application to prevent the wear of two metal components. Now this customer relies on wear pads coated with iglidur IC-02 high-performance polymers.

To ensure that the coated plates withstand the extreme environmental conditions, they have been tested in practice with sand, water and high and low temperatures. The result: the ambient conditions are no problem and the metal components do not wear out.

Adjustable office chair armrest with iglidur IC-02 coating

A manufacturer of office chairs used to use components made of a POM material for the armrests. Since the friction of this material was too high, he decided on an alternative from igus: Moulded aluminium linear guides combined with sliding elements made of iglidur J massively reduced the friction. Previously, the aluminium channels were coated with a clear PTFE paint, which was both expensive and involved a long lead time.

Now the components are coated directly with IC-02 and no subsequent painting is required. The same contractor coats the inside with IC-02 and then paints the outside for a better look.

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Sample with iglidur® IC-05 coating
Food compatible according to FDA and EU10/2011
Incorporated solid lubricants make lubrication superfluous
480 h salt spray test according to DIN EN ISO 9227

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Functionality and processing
The perfect coating for your application
Tips for self-coating
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Frequently asked questions about iglidur® Coating

Do you have questions regarding our iglidur coating powders? Then take a look at our FAQs. There, we answer questions regarding the topic coating with iglidur materials.

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Flexibly customisable sliding film

We offer you an alternative to coating with our iglidur® Tribo-Tape lubricating film. Thanks to the special iglidur® material composition, the sliding film reduces the coefficient of friction and has low wear. It is available as True to the metre or in your desired shape. Typical fields of application are mechanical engineering, conveyor technology or fixture construction.

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