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Products for vending machines

Linear and plain bearing technology, e-chains, gears, and gearbox solutions for vending machinery

Snack vending machines in busy places, coffee machines at gas stations, ticket vending machines at train stations, and cigarette vending machines at supermarket checkout counters. The variety of vending machines in our everyday lives is vast. But many of the requirements for moving components that allow vending machines to function smoothly are the same.
The primary concern for lead screws and nuts, linear rails, plain bearings, gears, and cable guidance systems are that they work reliably, avoid maintenance, and reduce costs. This is where our motion plastics come into play.

Vending machines

The most common vending machines are lift, spiral, flap, and drum machines.

Selected motion plastics for the vending machine industry

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Areas of application for motion plastics in vending machines

E2 micro e-chain

E2 micro e-chains

For the smallest applications
Strong, lightweight, and quiet
Control cables and other cable types also available

To product overview E2 micro

drylin E linear robot

drylin E linear robots

Quick assembly
Defined stroke length
Alternatively, drylin lead screw technology for linear strokes

Information about flat, line and room linear robots

Gears

iglidur gears

Tribo-optimised material for long service life
Eliminate all lubricants
3D printing service for custom gears

More about gears

apiro

drygear Apiro gearboxes

Simple modular gearbox system
For connection to lead screw and drive technology
Lubrication-free and cost-effective, made of solid plastic

More about Apiro gearboxes

drylin N

drylin N low-profile linear guides

Lightweight

Low installation height 6mm-12mm

Many carriage variants

Go to drylin low-profile linear guide shop

Free samples – as a box or individually for your application

See for yourself the quality of our motion plastics

Order a free motion plastics sample box with our most important products and information about various vending machine applications.
The box is not specific enough? We will find the right product for your application and send you an individual sample free of charge.

Vending machinery sample box

Vending machinery white paper

Free white paper:

Linear robot system for maintenance-free 24/7 operation

"Build or buy": Tips on designing vending machines
Vending machines are in vogue. The manufacturer must decide how the products are stored, presented, and made available to the buyer – and how to design the inner workings of the movable product dispenser. One option is lift systems combined with preconfigured linear robots, but there are others. The white paper outlines what is possible and what the designer should consider during project planning to achieve the right vending machine for a given application.

Successful in use in vending machine technology

Spice vending machine

Lubrication-free linear guides for maintenance-free spice vending machines

Automatic beverage machine

Linear bearings and energy supply systems in sustainable automatic beverage machines

Various customer projects from vending machinery

... and other success stories

igus blogs: topics and trends relating to vending machinery

Compact and light

How do you build a compact, lightweight vending machine?

While ticket or snack vending machines are often set up at head height and designed to be as eye-catching as possible for the advertising effect, every centimetre of installation space counts, especially in privately-used vending machines such as coffee machines. Components must also be lightweight to minimise energy consumption. Here you can find out how our motion plastics can help.

More information about this in the blog article

Bread baking vending machine

How do you meet hygiene requirements in vending machines?

Not all goods stored and dispensed in vending machines are securely packaged. Sensitive products are stored and moved in vending machines for baked goods, coffee, and pizza. For such applications, it is important to be familiar with the key standards for the food sector. The blog article will tell you what those standards are and how our bearing technology can help.

More information about this in the blog article

Vending machinery

How do vending machines become maintenance-free and reliable?

We encounter a wide variety of vending machines in our everyday lives. But they all have one thing in common: They have to work reliably at all times. Because operational disruptions do not just irritate the customer. Time-consuming maintenance measures mean high costs that could have been avoided. Find out more about our completely lubrication-free, maintenance-free bearing technology here.

More information about this in the blog article

Vending machines

Even more interesting blog articles

But that is not all. Our blog archive has even more interesting articles about vending machinery.

Overview of all blog articles

Lab-tested products

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Products for coffee machines

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