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News Release from: Iwis-Flexon | Subject: Nanochain roller chain
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 06 September 2007
Coated roller chains take high loads
Roller chains are coated to significantly reduce the surface coefficient of friction within the chain link and offer a high load bearing capacity, wear-resistance and resistance to chemicals.
German high-performance roller chain manufacturer Iwis Antriebssysteme (Iwis) has introduced its Nanochain roller chain Nanochain features a patented surface coating based on nanotechnology
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 22 Jul 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The coating acts like a boundary layer to significantly reduce the surface coefficient of friction within the chain link.
The new nanochain is claimed by Iwis to have a higher strength and rigidity than conventional maintenance-free chains.
Iwis said it is ideally suited for high-speed operation and high loads.
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In combination with optimised lubrication, the new chains have an outstanding wear-resistance as much as 50% higher than that of the Iwis SL performance chains - and consequently a longer service life.
Their wide operating temperature range is up to 230 deg C, depending on the initial lubrication.
The chain's resistance to chemicals makes them suitable for almost any industrial application.
The chains are also available as conveyor chains with attachments and with the tightest dimensional tolerances.
* Iwis at Motek, the international trade fair for assembly and handling technology, September 24-27, 2007, New Trade Fair Stuttgart, Germany, Hall 9, Stand 9405.
* About Iwis - Iwis Antriebssysteme and Co KG supplies high-performance roller chains and precision chain systems for machine and plant construction, packaging, printing and food industries, material handling systems and other industrial applications.
Since 2006, Iwis Antriebssysteme is an independent subsidiary of Iwis Motorsysteme and Co KG, which produces timing chains and systems for the automotive industry.
The company's history goes back to the end of the 19th century, when Johann Baptist Winklhofer started to import bicycles from England.
Having set up his own bicycle factory in Chemnitz, he later moved to Munich where he founded Iwis in 1916.
Still run as a family business - now in its fourth generation - Iwis today employs more than 850 people at its production sites in Munich, Strakonice in the Czech Republic, and the Bavarian town of Landsberg am Lech.
Iwis Landsberg factory was awarded first place in the national German Factory of the Year/GEO Awards 2005 competition.
Iwis chains are distributed worldwide.
In the UK, Iwis products are available through Iwis-Flexon in Tipton, West Midlands.
Established in 1974, the Iwis subsidiary specializes in the distribution of roller chains and the production of attachment chains.
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