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Laboratory & development
Our test laboratory

Materials are manufactured by igus in products together in one area. For We would love to test your application Laboratory facts What happens to the test data? reliability of our products can be determined
accordance with the motto “Tech up, example, 1,500m² is dedicated to You don't want to test and would like to Use of testing data does not stop after quickly and very easily online 24/7.
Cost down”. Our products are designed testing chainflex cables in our own subject your application to a material • Total area of igus test laboratory: development.We have been developing This means a high degree of transparency
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with great passion to extend the service energy chains. For especially long test before using it? Or do you have an innovative online tools since 2001 and for our customers, enabling engineers to
life of machines and applications, travels, 2,000m² of outdoor space is unusual application for which you need 3,800m² sensor-based smart plastics since 2016, find the most cost-effective, functioning
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eliminate maintenance and reduce available. iglidur plain bearings, drylin a suitable component? No problem. We • More than 15,000 tests, about which are based on the database of our solution to their problem.More than 40
costs. For our engineers, the quality and linear bearings, and our Low Cost will test your application in our test 4,000 of them for e-chains and test laboratory results.With these online tools are available to you free of charge.
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reliability of parts, i.e. their resilience and Automation components are tested in laboratory and use our know-how to ® tools, the economic efficiency and
service life, are vital factors in development. an area of over 300m². The latter partly find the best igus solution for you. chainflex and around 11,000 of
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Every igus product is tested thoroughly under real conditions in quality assurance. Regardless of whether it is a plain them for dry-tech (rotating,
pivoting, linear, tumbling, heated,
before it is made available for sale. To To be able to develop new cleanroom- bearing, energy chain, cable, linear underwater, and so on.)
this end, we have been operating our compatible products faster, we operate technology, bar stock or Low Cost
own test laboratory since 1985. It's not our own cleanroom laboratory with an Automation.
only the largest test laboratory for ISO Class 1 cleanroom system in • 450 test rigs for plain bearings
tribopolymers in the industry in terms of cooperation with the Fraunhofer IPA. An How many tests are conducted in the • 10 billion e-chain cycles
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area, but it also conducts the highest outdoor testing area, a laboratory for test laboratory?
number of product tests and test noise tests and the climatic chamber Annually, a large number of tests
procedures. with -40°C completes our test area. To and material examinations are conducted • 3,500 tested cables
• 400 customer-specific tests
achieve maximum realistic conditions, in the numerous test facilities.
What is tested and how? we also test customer applications and igus-asean.com/testlab
Our facilities for testing applications conduct standard industry tests.
and materials cover a total of 3,800m².
Every business sector has its own test
laboratory. However, we test some

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