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igus® Ireland

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Brackmills

Northampton NN4 7PW

+44 1604 677240
igus® Ltd.

Caswell Road

Northampton, NN4 7PW

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Woodworking machinery solutions for moving applications

igus ® plastic solutions for moving applications in woodworking machinery help you to reduce installation, handling and throughput times. Time-consuming maintenance work can be minimised with dry running, swarf-resistant solutions from a single source. Where there is dust and swarf, the very tightly sealed igus® energy supplies ensure the safe and secure movement of cables, hydraulic and pneumatic hoses in woodworking machinery or CNC processing centres. In addition, the dry running igus® linear guides, plain bearings and ball bearings are absolutely lubrication- and maintenance-free making them the first choice for woodworking machinery.
 Your benefits at a glance:

  • Lubrication and maintenance-free
  • Ready-to-install energy supply systems
  • Quick assembly
  • Minimise your machine downtime
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Products commonly used in woodworking machinery

e-chains® E2

e-chain® E2
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e-chains® E4.1L

e4
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Control cables

chainflex® control cables
  • Fail-safe cables
  • Up to 36 month guarantee
  • Suitable for extreme ambient conditions
  • Other options available
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readychain® standard

readychain® standard
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drylin® linear technology

Linear technology
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igubal® pillow block bearings

Pillow block bearing
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Find product solutions simply by type of application

cnc machining centre

CNC machining centers

Whether safe energy supply systems, linear bearings or lead screws for format adjustments or harnessed drive cables.
  
Discover all solutions for CNC machining centres here
Throughfeed machine

Throughfeed machines

Whether 3D energy supply system, format adjustment with trapezoidal threads or cost-effective PVC cables that function reliably, even when moving.

Discover all solutions for throughfeed machines here

woodworking machinery brochure

Free woodworking machinery brochure


igus® has a wide range of products for woodworking machinery and this brochure goes into more depth over the specific products and offers various applications for where the products can be used in this industry. 

Successfully in use

Module Connect ensures fast commissioning

Fast commissioning of the energy supply system with Module Connect

What was needed? Ready-to-install, harnessed energy chains that can be put into operation quickly

Requirements: simple installation, significant time saving, one central interface instead of many individual connectors

Success for the customer: quick and easy commissioning, customer is able to connect and disconnect the self-coded assembly at any time if servicing is required.
Overview woodworking collage

...and many further success stories

Find out here how motion plastics solutions demonstrate their technical advantages in many other applications​ from the woodworking and wood-processing industry


Related industries

textile industry

Textile industry

Long service life and smooth running, even at high cycle rates in textile machines.
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steel works

Steel work industry

Steel systems have been successfully replaced by high-performance polymer e-chain® systems
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The terms "igus", "Apiro", "chainflex", "CFRIP", "conprotect", "CTD", "drylin", "dry-tech", "dryspin", "easy chain", "e-chain", "e-chain systems", "e-ketten", "e-kettensysteme", "e-skin", "e-spool", "flizz", "ibow", "igear", "iglidur", "igubal", "igutex", "kineKIT", "manus", "motion plastics", "pikchain", "readychain", "readycable", "ReBeL", "speedigus", "triflex", "robolink", "xirodur", and "xiros" are legally protected trademarks of the igus® GmbH/ Cologne in the Federal Republic of Germany and where applicable in some foreign countries.

igus® GmbH points out that it does not sell any products of the companies Allen Bradley, B&R, Baumüller, Beckhoff, Lahr, Control Techniques, Danaher Motion, ELAU, FAGOR, FANUC, Festo, Heidenhain, Jetter, Lenze, LinMot, LTi DRiVES, Mitsubishi, NUM,Parker, Bosch Rexroth, SEW, Siemens, Stöber and all other drive manufacturers mention on this website. The products offered by igus® are those of igus® GmbH