Nowadays, there are many types of consumer drinks such as juices, juices and wines on the market, and the corresponding filling and packaging requirements are increasing. Sports plastics experts igus are resistant to lubrication, wear and resistance. Corrosive engineering plastics solutions, and long-term cooperation with many world-renowned beverage machinery manufacturers such as Krones, Fricke, Küppersbusch, KHS, etc., which have cooperated with many families for more than 20 years.
Figure 1: The iglidur J trapezoidal flange nut is used in the Krones Sleevematic TS sleeve labeling machine.
Provide a reliable solution for many possible applications
In the long-term cooperation with many beverage machinery manufacturers, igus has explored many high-quality application solutions. For example, Krones' Sleevematic TS sleeve label uses a series of igus products, from the position of the bottle group and the brush set. Use lubricated engineering plastic nuts, use linear guide system for electric eye adjustment, and use SLW screw drive module for label pre-shrinking mechanism and guide roller height adjustment mechanism. Fricke uses lubrication-free in the filling head adjustment of its equipment. And the wear-resistant drylin linear product line consists of screw lift modules to improve equipment performance and reduce costs. KHS's Innoket Neo labeling machine is highly attractive in addition to its corrosion and hygienic features. Up to 60,000 bottles can be labeled in hours, and the lubrication-free drylin linear product is used here. There are countless examples. The bearing series made of igus high-performance engineering plastics can be effectively cleaned and has a long service life. It does not require any external lubrication and meets FDA standards for direct contact with foods such as beverages, so it has always been favored by food equipment designers.
Figure 2: Fricke uses a screw-free lifting module consisting of a lubrication-free and wear-resistant drylin SLW linear product line in the filling head of the equipment to improve equipment performance and reduce costs.
Igus high performance engineering plastics - trusted choice
For example, the Küppersbusch spirits filling equipment currently being tested in the final test before delivery in Velbert, Germany, uses a wide variety of different types of igus bearing products: drylin is used in various height adjustment mechanisms. Trapezoidal thread screws in the linear product range and flange nuts made of high-performance engineering plastics; position adjustment guides are made with drylin R linear flange bearings; self-aligning clamp bearings are mounted on the brackets of the motor to ensure Convenience of installation; on another (vertical) guiding system, drylin R linear flange bearings with aluminum alloy casing and matching hard anodized aluminum alloy shafts were used. Klaus Voigt, project engineer at Küppersbusch, said: 'This We have been using it for almost eight years. It has a perfect shape, does not require any lubrication, and has almost no wear and tear.
In addition, Küppersbusch uses the igus high-performance engineering plastic bearings on the valves and pumps of the filling and dosing station. At the filling station, the bottles are lifted and connected to the filling port via the drylin T linear guide. In the centering mechanism, iglidur flange bearings are installed. These bearings are not only FDA-compliant and chemically resistant, but also have a very long service life. Klaus Voigt shared his experience: 'These bearings are subject to great pressure We have a filling machine that has been running 40 million cycles, still using the original igus shaft and bearings. 'Küppersbusch bottling equipment requires very little maintenance and can reduce the user's maintenance costs, so the customer's reputation is very good. .
Figure 3: (Iglidur B160 material) iglidur wear strip for the exit position of the Küppersbusch bottling plant rotary table.
A wide range of iglidur high performance materials
In order to meet the growing demand for high-performance applications and to make it easy for designers to choose, igus has been developing, testing and launching new iglidur high-performance materials. Over the past many years, igus has been made from FDA-compliant iglidur A180 materials. Performance engineering plastic bearing product lines are widely used, especially in the beverage and food industries; many customers are now using the new FDA-compliant iglidur A181 (blue) material and FDA-compliant and high temperature resistant iglidur A500 bearings. Another newer product from igus is also used in the exit area of the Küppersbusch bottle conveyor rotary table. The guide plates of the bottles were originally made of stainless steel. In order to eliminate the noise generated by the metal collision of the bottles, igus is now made of B160 material. Wear-resistant strip. This wear-resistant strip is resistant to cleaning media and has very good sliding properties or friction coefficient compared with ordinary polymer plastics.
Figure 4: The 3D printed plastic fixture made of the wear-resistant optimized material iglidur I150 can save 85% cost and 70% production time for packaging equipment.
Maintenance-free 3D printing fixtures improve packaging machine efficiency
Since 2015, igus has started to provide 3D printing with wear-resistant threads made of lubrication-free high-performance plastics optimized for wear and friction. Currently, igus wear-resistant wire has been used by many companies, and Carecos Kosmetik is one of them. The problems they face are: Product replacement means that the fixtures of the packaging machine must be remanufactured. In the past, they all chose finely machined aluminum fixtures. But this not only costs a lot of money, but it takes six weeks. 3D printing with the high-strength and impact-resistant wear-resistant wire iglidur I150 is the ideal solution for the production of cost-effective small-volume fixtures. Compared with the previously selected aluminum materials, the use of iglidur I150 in 3D printing can be Carecos Kosmetik saves up to 85% in cost and 70% in production time. Not only that, plastic fixtures are seven times lighter than metal fixtures.