Durable, maintenance-free components for renewable energies

Generating energy, especially from renewable energy sources, requires reliable and durable technological solutions. In the process, the different systems are often exposed to extreme environmental conditions, such as UV radiation, fluctuations in temperature, strong winds, dirt and dust, and have to withstand these for years.
 
Tailored to the specific system, we offer you special solutions made of high-performance polymers, which can help you improve your technology, optimise your system and reduce costs.

Benefits of igus products:

• Lubrication and maintenance-free
• UV-resistant
• Insensitive to dirt and dust
• Weather-resistant
• Corrosion-resistant
• Long predictable service life
• Customised solutions

Withstand all weather conditions: plain bearings in PV trackers

Tracking systems by TecnoSun Solar Systems AG convince due to their cost efficiency thanks to low installation height. For the traction ring, the company required low-maintenance bearings that would withstand decades of operation in all sorts of weather conditions. At igus, they found what they were looking for: dry-running iglidur P plain bearings are maintenance-free, resistant to dirt and extreme weather conditions and withstand heavy loads, should they be covered in thick layers of snow.

... and more success stories

UV-resistant plain bearings in Fresnel collectors and parabolic mirrors, media-resistant spherical bearings in solar cleaning robots, slide bearings in wave energy converters, corrosion-free energy guides on tidal turbines and computing systems: discover other applications from our customers in which our motion plastics are used and demonstrate their advantages.