Modern Components for Modern Packaging Lines

Industry leading producers trust Intech's gears and cam followers to deliver unique competitive advantages. Engineered for the demands of the 21st century - Designed to run maintenance and lubrication free.

Intech cam followers last 2x-10X longer than traditional cam followers - this white paper explains how.

When productivity counts:

Intech's lubrication-free, high-performance components won’t slow down equipment for maintenance or repair

Our motion control components combine high strength with low-wear properties, making them an excellent choice for demanding packaging machines.

Thanks to our PowerCore engineered polymer, our gears, track rollers and cam followers offer exceptional physical and mechanical properties, enabling conveyors, palletizers and filling and sealing machines to operate reliably. Corrosion-proof, lubrication-free, and FDA approved, our PowerCore components also excel in food, dairy and cosmetic packaging applications.

Superior Wear Resistance

Our PowerCore polymer components don’t suffer from metal-on-metal wear and galling, so they’ll last a long time without damaging your equipment.

Polymer machine components solve the wear problems and reduce attention to maintenance that’s associated with metals.
The use of polymers eliminates rail and cam wear in high-speed machines.
Our motion components maintain smooth bearing surfaces over a long lifecycle.

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No Downtime for Lubrication

High-speed packaging machines with all-metal components require continuous lubrication. Any interruption in the lubrication schedule can lead to part failure and costly downtime. Our self-lubricating polymer components overcome these issues:

Fitted with per-lubricated for life ball bearings, polymer cam followers eliminate the need to lubricate the bearing and cam surface.
With their smooth machined surfaces, our track rollers eliminate viscous drag, seizing, and skidding.
Even if you don’t tend to them, your motion system components will continue to run smoothly, maximizing your uptime.

Corrosion-Proof Components

Clean, Quiet, Headache Free

Well-Suited for Contamination-Prone Equipment

PowerCore polymer components are corrosion-proof and require no external lubricants that can otherwise contaminate packaging machines in industries with strict sanitary requirements including food and beverage and pharmaceutical applications.

Uniquely formulated PowerCore material enables our components to withstand continuous exposure to chemicals without altering our components dimensions or operability.
The polymer doesn’t absorb moisture, making our gears, cam followers and track rollers ideal for packaging applications involving high-pressure washdown.
Because they don’t wear out metal, these components don’t generate metal particles, and mating components won’t wear or need to be replaced.

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What Clients Say About Intech:

“ Intech was very supportive on the front end of the design. They helped with the design of the components, which a semi-custom design based on their iCam® Followers. Intech knows the material specifications and their own manufacturing capabilities and worked closely with us to create the right part for the application ”

Mitch Blalock | Manager of Positioning Products for ViaSat

“ The reason the Intech roller was implemented was because it provided a very smooth rolling surface, and offers lubrication-free operation, which is necessary in such a clean environment. More importantly, though, is the roller’s aversion to taking a compression set. Further, through life testing the roller was found not to show wear for extend life cycles ”

Bob Krug | PerkinElmer Automation

“ Intech’s PowerCore pinions and cam followers took care of two of the major problems with our rack and pinion system at once: the PowerCore components virtually eliminated the problem of friction, which was a defining factor in the reduction of noise in the system, reducing it by half, their ability to customize to our needs was essential, we had the design finished in less than 24 hours. ”

Richard A. Glazier | Automation Engineering Manager at KLEENLine

“ These rollers had to operate quietly, in extreme environmental conditions, including high humidity or sub-zero temperatures, at high speed, be maintenance free and have a long life, all of the rollers we looked at were inadequate in many ways until we found Intech iCams® and chose them for our design. The rollers we bought from Intech used higher-grade and longer lasting bearings than found in most off-the-shelf metal components. ”

James Carver | president of JAMCO

“ We really needed to go out and find a product manufacturer that could provide specific custom components to alleviate all of our primary concerns. One of the principal requirements was that the gears are self-lubricating to prevent contamination of the process. They also had to last in the harsh environment ”

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