Our gears, guide rollers and other components avoid physical property degradation that can cause premature failure.
Weak power transmission components can spell doom for an otherwise well-designed motion system. Yet many engineers fail to account for various environmental exposures — like moisture uptake — which can cause many traditional engineered polymers to lose up to 50 percent of their tensile strength.
At iNTECH, we design our way around the problems associated with moisture and other environmental conditions by choosing the right type of polymer. PowerCore stands out based on a unique balance of:
Physical properties
Cost
Most high-performance polymers absorb moisture, causing them to lose tensile strength and swell. Power transmission components made from these hygroscopic polymers end up too weak to carry the loads they were designed for and too swollen to work with mating parts. On the other hand:
We gravity cast our PowerCore polymer over metal hubs or thermally install it over roller bearings to produce our cam followers, track rollers and gears. We then precision machine these blanks to form the finished component. This process offers several advantages:
Our PowerCore gears and track rollers can withstand temperature swings and chemicals, enabling these components to offer long, contamination-free operation in power transmission applications in the medical, electronics and machine tool industries.