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Extremely Fast ROI
Increased Competitiveness
Reduced Operating Cost
Eliminate Contamination
Reduce Plastic Engineering Guesswork
Concepting Through Production
PowerCore Product Line
By Type
Gears
Cam Followers
Rollers/Bearings
By Application
Power Transmission
Motion Contol
Sliding Doors
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Packaging
Medical
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Intech Power-Core Engineering Blog
Power-Core gears
20 minute read
| December 27, 2022
The difference between injection molded plastic gears and machined plastic gears
The Difference between Injection Molded Plastic Gears and Machined Plastic Gears {% module_block module...
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guide roller
4 minute read
| July 15, 2022
Replacing Cracked Track Rollers - An ElliptiGO Gets Smoother & Quieter
A customer, Tim ONeill, recently reached out to Intech looking for a small quantity of flat track rollers (Intech FT1-1.500...
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4 minute read
| September 2, 2021
Small, Greaseless Cam Followers Rise to the Occasion in Robotics Applications
Have you ever run into issues trying to select small cam followers for your application? If the answer is yes, you’re not...
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5 minute read
| July 15, 2021
Quiet Gears Improve Patient Comfort and Imaging Quality in Medical Equipment
If you have a medical exam or procedure that involves X-rays, mammography units or robotic surgery equipment, the last thing...
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4 minute read
| May 27, 2021
Sealed End-Cap Design Boosts Cam Follower Durability in Washdown Applications
If you’re designing for packaging or processing machines in the food and beverage, pharmaceutical or electronics industries,...
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4 minute read
| April 7, 2021
Long-Lasting, Lubrication-Free Guide Rollers Enable Flexible Automation for Genomic Research
When it comes to life science and laboratory instruments, your choice of motion components can make a big difference in...
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3 minute read
| April 7, 2021
Power-Core™ Gear-Drive Overcomes Belt-Drive Challenges in Frozen Food Slicing Applications
Slicing operations in frozen food applications are demanding, to say the least. They involve a constant switch between...
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5 minute read
| April 6, 2021
Precision Track Rollers Beat Metal and Plastic To Hold Up 1,280-Pound Glass Door
High-quality sliding doors are expected to open easily and quietly—a motion that largely depends on high-quality track...
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6 minute read
| January 13, 2021
Explore The Ways Our Large Diameter Gear Integrated Bearings Shine in Difficult Environments
When the design calls for a large bearing—for example, to support a large outer diameter (OD) ring gear—choosing a sturdy...
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6 minute read
| November 11, 2020
Greaseless Cam Follower With Hybrid Design Excels in Washdown Applications
The wrong type of cam follower or roller can lead to contamination issues, frequent maintenance and reduced service...
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rack and pinion system
4 minute read
| May 21, 2014
5 Advantages of Plastic Rack and Pinions in Motion Applications
Polymer Eliminates Contamination in Linear Motion Systems
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PA12GC
4 minute read
| February 27, 2014
Power-Core Plastic Components Take On Metals
Even with all the advances in engineering polymers and processing methods, metal alloys still dominate the production of...
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PA12GC
2 minute read
| February 20, 2014
Large Cast Power-Core (TM) Propeller Dives Into Paper Pulp Mixing
Most engineering polymers won’t stand up to the harsh conditions found inside the mixing tanks used in pulp and paper...
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EPS
| February 13, 2014
Modified Plastic Gears For Electronic Power Steering (EPS) Systems
At the beginning of the 1990s Electronic power steering was just beginning to hit the main stream. Delphi - since bankrupt...
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cast nylon 12
2 minute read
| February 6, 2014
Power-Core Withstands Pulsed High Voltages
The development of high-voltage pulsed power systems for both research and commercial applications has created a tricky...
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Power-Core gears
2 minute read
| January 30, 2014
Intech Gears Could Eliminate Noise From Your Segway Gearbox
Does your segway make too much noise? Have you ever wondered where it is coming from? Segway drive gears in the segway gear...
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Clean Room rollers
2 minute read
| January 23, 2014
Vacuum Conditions Pose No Problems For Power-Core
Of all the physical properties required of engineering polymers, vacuum stability does not come up all that often. Yet some...
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washdown application
3 minute read
| January 16, 2014
Cast Nylons Replace Structural Aluminum and Gluing Delrin Parts
Robotic arms for e-coat systems have traditionally been made from aluminum, whose strength-to-weight ratio made it seem...
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2 minute read
| January 9, 2014
Nylon Gears With A Performance Edge
Metal and plastic gears have traditionally exhibited clear-cut differences in performance characteristics and cost....
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Food Safe Rollers
2 minute read
| January 9, 2014
Food safe Cam Followers Substitue Stainless Steel in Food Processing
Food and beverage machinery is not always the most hospitable place for motion components such as rollers, gears and...
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2 minute read
| January 8, 2014
Part II: All Plastic Gears Are Not The Same
Engineers sometimes lump all plastic gears together, with injection molded nylon gears as the point of reference. When we...
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roller design
3 minute read
| January 2, 2014
Eliminating Noise , Malfunction, And Skidding In Sliding Door Rollers
Of all the maintenance headaches associated with sliding doors, rollers cause most of the pain.
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Pipe conveyor roller
3 minute read
| September 26, 2013
Plastic Conveyor Rollers Support 30 tons in Pipe Handling Industry
Of all the large, load-bearing applications for our Power-Core cast polymer, one of the most challenging has been the...
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self-lubricating gears
2 minute read
| September 25, 2013
Next Generation Motion Control and Engineering Meet in a Short Film
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Intech Necker Gears
4 minute read
| April 22, 2013
Cannex 2013 - Booth 934 Atlanta May1-3 2013
Cannex 2013 May 1 -3. Intech is proudly presenting its full line of light-weight , long wearing, and self lubricating...
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Cavitation Free impellers
3 minute read
| April 15, 2013
Polymer Impellers Fight Cavitation Wear In Pumps and Hydraulic Systems
You might not think that bubbles are much of threat to solid surfaces. But engineers who have encountered cavitation wear...
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gear design
3 minute read
| March 22, 2013
Large Underwater Gear Highlights Nylon's Moisture Resistance
Wear and moisture resistance are two recurring themes in the engineering problems solved by Intech Power-Core™. Oftentimes,...
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plastic rollers
2 minute read
| March 14, 2013
Polymer-Steel Hybrids For Heavy-Duty Rollers For Rack Feeders
Metal or plastic? In many load transmission applications, the choice will be clear-cut based on loads, lifecycle...
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Belvac 595
3 minute read
| February 25, 2013
Actuator Redesign For High-Speed Belvac 795 Can Making Machine
Though the necker on a can making line performs a very specialized task, the mechanical subsystems found on this machine...
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Power-Core
3 minute read
| January 7, 2013
Powercore Offers Unique Balance Of Properties
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washdown application
4 minute read
| October 3, 2012
Lube-Free Rotary Positioning for Cleanrooms and More
Intech’s Power-Core® rollers have found uses in applications ranging from industrial machines to transportation. Most of...
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cam followers
3 minute read
| October 1, 2012
Plastics Improve Roller and Cam Follower Performance
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Power-Core gears
5 minute read
| September 21, 2012
Anti backlash gear design at the heart of clear tomography imaging
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cam followers
5 minute read
| September 10, 2012
How to avoid design compromises when the equipment function calls for cam followers
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cam follower
| February 2, 2012
Introducing Intech Non-lubricated Linear Slides
Below is the first look at our newest product: A non-lubricated linear Slide.
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| August 3, 2011
What they don't teach you in engineering school about gear design
It’s this:
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Power-Core gears
| May 13, 2011
Still Lubricating your Rack and Pinion System?
Lubricating a rack and pinion gear drive is often done manually. In industries, such as in food processing or packaging,...
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Linear Motion Devices
2 minute read
| March 30, 2011
Energy efficiency improves export chances - linear motion products
I recently attended a round table discussion with Mrs. Beryl Blecher, Minister Counselor for Commercial Affairs U.S....
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Power-Core gears
3 minute read
| March 28, 2011
Electrically insulated gear box for electrolytic metal deposition
To increase the capacity of their metal deposition furnaces with typically one cathode and one anode, we were approached by...
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| February 17, 2011
Plastic gear material shows no water absorption after 700 hrs submerged in water
Ordinary plastic gears expand when they absorb moisture, internal stresses are relaxed, and the tensile strength drops by...
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Power-Core gears
| January 31, 2011
Stainless steel chain plating drum drive replaced by lube free gears
One of our customers, who use an aggressive liquid bath in a plating process for coating metal parts, was experiencing a...
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Power-Core
2 minute read
| January 27, 2011
Roller Assembly Technology that Effortlessly Opens Doors & Partitions
Manufacturers and designers of precision sliding doors and indoor/outdoor architectural partitions are always searching for...
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Power-Core
2 minute read
| January 19, 2011
Why Do Intech Power-Core Gears Last?
Rugged, high performance Intech Power-Core™ gears, rollers, and cam followers are individually calculated and designed from...
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Power-Core
| January 17, 2011
Power-Core Screen Support in Fish Crowder for Oregon River Project
As a result of writing these blog posts, we realize that increasingly we have become an integral part of projects that...
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Power-Core gears
2 minute read
| January 13, 2011
Self-Lubricating Plastic Gear System Replaces Pulley Drive-Train
When Dexter Magnetic Technologies introduced a dual axis robotic manipulator to control sputtering in the manufacturing of...
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Intech Corporation
| November 5, 2010
Happy Holidays from Intech Corporation
Thank you for your interest in our company. We wish you a peaceful holiday and a prosperous year in 2010.
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cam follower
| August 27, 2010
Cam Followers for RT Light Testers in Can Making Production Line
In a high speed can making production line, light inspection is required to find pin holes and split flanges after the...
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maintenance
| August 10, 2010
Drive sprocket for Escalator handrail extends maintenance intervals
“Shut down for maintenance, use the stairs please.” We have grown accustomed to signs like these in public places like...
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Power-Core gears
2 minute read
| July 27, 2010
Low inertia Power-Core spur gear increases caplet machine output
One of our customers, who manufactures packaging machines for the pharmaceutical industry to produce caplets, sought to...
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minimum resistance
2 minute read
| June 15, 2010
Guide rollers hold camera steady on gantry suspended over race track
The average speed of a NASCAR car varies from one race track to another, it is calculated based on the winner’s lap speed...
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cam followers
4 minute read
| May 26, 2010
Flat spot development on steel/plastic rollers in skid steer cab door
We wrote in our last post about wear on steel cam followers, below we have some more images that offer a great illustration...
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cam followers
3 minute read
| May 12, 2010
Are steel cam followers overrated for use in packaging machines?
“Metal cam followers are overrated” said one packaging engineer in a recent conversation when asked why he opted for...
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Power-Core gears
2 minute read
| May 4, 2010
Power-Core gear segment and pinion in high-speed card feeder
A high frequency reciprocating gear and pinion being used in a feeder to insert postcards into magazines was suffering...
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Power-Core
| April 19, 2010
Double-rowed Power-Core drive sprocket in packaging machine
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Intech rollers
3 minute read
| April 6, 2010
Sliding-door roller assembly permitted by fire and building codes
Fire and building codes were modified a decade ago to permit the use of horizontal sliding door systems in many...
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Power-Core rollers
| March 31, 2010
No Embrittlement on Guide Rollers for Whistler Peak 2 Peak Cable Cars
When you are hanging a record 1,430 feet above the ground in a heavy cable car you want to be sure that the rollers it is...
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cam followers
2 minute read
| March 16, 2010
Combating vibration, shaft bearings are only as good as their grease
Intech Power-Core™ guide rollers and iCamFollowers™ absorb shock and vibration and their life is typically calculated for...
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iCam Followers
| March 1, 2010
“Will plastic rollers or cam followers last in my application?”
Together with a leading university we developed a roller life calculation, to reassure our customers of the reliability of...
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Power-Core
2 minute read
| February 2, 2010
High speed rotating face cams machined from Power-Core™ outlast steel
Exact steerage requires dimensionally stable cam tracks with narrow tolerances. Our cams are precision machined from solid...
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Power-Core
| January 19, 2010
Crystalline structure absorbs energy in high speed Power-Core roller.
A special design by Intech’s engineering staff, using a composite tire material, a tested method of manufacturing and...
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Power-Core
2 minute read
| January 7, 2010
Composite Worm Gears Extend Wear Life in Tough Applications
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cast nylon 12
| December 9, 2009
Effects of Moisture on the Tensile Strength of Nylon 12
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cast nylon 12
2 minute read
| November 25, 2009
Moisture Absorption, Swelling in Nylons, except Cast Nylon Powercore
Moisture absorption is a key factor to consider during nylon material selection. Design engineers need to take account of...
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Power-Core
2 minute read
| November 16, 2009
Self-Lubricating cam followers replace steel in outdoor applications
Our customers have been asking us to help them with components for machines that will operate in ever harsher conditions....
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Power-Core gears
2 minute read
| October 28, 2009
Medical Latex Dipping Device for Easy Cleaning with Proprietary Gear Design
Power-Core™ gears have been used to upgrade the design of a latex dipping gear cassette assembly in a unique arrangement...
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Power-Core
2 minute read
| October 5, 2009
Plastic Gear Train Design For Zipper Pouch Packaging Machine
During the developmental stage of a new zipper pouch packaging machine, Hayssen, a division of Barry-Wehmiller, the largest...
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lubrication-free
| August 18, 2009
Wear life of Power-Core gears can be calculated in advance
The “Lewis Formula”, proven accurate in calculating the life of metal gears, often provides skewed results in plastic...
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Power-Core
2 minute read
| August 13, 2009
Guide Rollers Provide Secure Fit Under Varying Loads & Temperature
Intech was selected by Bombardier to provide replacement rollers for the platform safety door on the Orlando People Mover...
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maintenance
2 minute read
| August 7, 2009
“Green” Manufacturing Initiative from Power-Core
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Power-Core
| July 13, 2009
Power-Core Custom Helical Gear Drive For Food Processing Machine
July 13, 2009 by intechpowerIntech Corporation is committed to lowering the impact of manufacturing on the environment. We...
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