
Punching and bending technology
Iwis takes over Unimet
Iwis-Holding has acquired the Unimet Group. With this acquisition, Iwis is expanding its expertise in the field of electrical engineering and electrical connection technology.

Punching and bending technology
Iwis-Holding has acquired the Unimet Group. With this acquisition, Iwis is expanding its expertise in the field of electrical engineering and electrical connection technology.

The partial, full and over-extension telescopic rails from Rollon offer minimal deflection, backlash-free running and smooth movement even under high continuous loads.

With the Domiline series, IEF-Werner offers high-precision manual adjustment slides. A precise steel spindle, ball-bearing mounted in an end plate and with a low-backlash, pre-tensioned plastic nut, drives the system.

The product range of the rolling bearing specialist Hecht from Winnenden includes angular contact ball bearings of the certified own brands HKC and HKW in single and double row designs.

Chemical-resistant tribo-plastic
Igus has clip-on and wrap-around bearings in its range for lubrication-free mounting. They are used in sheet metal bushings due to their simple installation. Igus has developed the material Iglidur K230 to withstand high edge loads under extreme conditions.

The new MACM series centering units from SMC make it possible to precisely position heavy loads with small cylinders. They can carry heavy loads weighing up to one tonne and move them in all directions with a centering accuracy of plus/minus one millimetre.

Seos technology reduces vibrations from storage and retrieval machines and thus enables a higher storage throughput in high-bay warehouses, as high acceleration values are achieved without increasing material stress and wear.

There are machine concepts in which the chain strands are operated in pairs or multiple times in parallel and synchronously. This requires the drive elements to be exactly the same length.

Lifting columns are indispensable for many applications in medical technology, the packaging industry, logistics and car production. As a component of ergonomic workstation systems, they also help to increase efficiency in many companies.
Handling systems made from linear units. Rose+Krieger specializes in the design of multi-axis handling systems for loading and unloading or pick-and-place tasks using toothed belt or spindle-driven linear units and aluminium construction profiles.

With Ready Track, Winkel has standardized horizontal tracks in its portfolio to which users can easily and stably attach conveyor technology. The Ready Track is a system with a steel profile design and is equipped with Winkel guides and rollers.

Steinbock presents its expanded range of bellows on almost 100 pages. The new catalog lists all bellows available from stock, arranged according to the smallest connection diameter of three to 260 millimetres.
Every two years, Igus presents the Vector Award, which recognizes outstanding applications with energy chain systems. The golden Vector went to Loxin 2002 from Spain. In this application, two articulated robots work in the final assembly line of aircraft fuselages.

Chain specialist Iwis presents new versions of grip chains. These chains have wear-resistant and corrosion-resistant clamping elements for the safe feeding, transportation and positioning of thin-walled, large-area materials, such as films.
With its Fipsystems range, Fränkische Industrial Pipes meets the requirements of mechanical and plant engineering for future-proof cable protection.

Housing bearings with a lower-case bearing insert with adapter sleeves are both a blessing and a curse. A blessing in that they have the best running properties, especially at high speeds, and a curse because compliance with the tightening torques requires a high level of expertise in assembly.
Elsinghorst, a specialist in steel and industrial supplies, has introduced the intelligent warehouse management system Vendor Managed Inventory from SKF. This has enabled the company to reduce its overall stock levels while improving inventory turnover and availability.

A renowned set designer from Great Britain uses robust Rodriguez ball bearing slewing rings in the stage technology of internationally renowned artists.

Rollon shows how robot applications can be expanded to include a seventh axis based on the Actuator System Line modular system. The complete robot moves on a linear axis close to the floor and operates a Cartesian linear axis system with telescopic feeder.

With the Multilift II safety, RK Rose+Krieger is adding a fifth variant to its product family of electrically movable Multilift II lifting columns. The manufacturer designed the Multilift II safety specifically for overhead applications in media and industrial technology.