Product category:
Bearings
News Release from: FTL Seals Technology | Subject: Glycodur Slide-Bearings range
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 13 November 2001
Lead free, maintenance free Slide
Bearings
Available from FTL Seals Technology is the Federal Mogul range of environmentally friendly products, including the maintenance free Glycodur slide-bearings range.
Available from FTL Seals Technology is the Federal Mogul range of environmentally friendly products, including the Glycodur Slide-Bearings range Shock absorbers, hinges, gears, pumps, valves, car seats or vibration-dampers - the desire for comfort and maintenance free bearings have led car and car component manufacturers to install millions and millions of slide bearings, year after year
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 5 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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As well as comfort and the maintenance free aspects, another issue has entered the decision-making arena in car manufacturing.
This is the possibility and need to supply environmentally friendly components, which can be recycled.
Industrial applications will no doubt be also forced to follow these trends.
The European Parliament has already passed regulations to limit the use of lead, mercury, cadmium and 6-valued chromium.
These regulations will come into force from July 1st 2003 and are linked to the proposal to reduce the aforementioned materials considerably and replace them as soon as possible.
Users of Glycodur-Sliding-Bearings have always had the advantage of them being lead free and are also free of other environmentally unfriendly materials; additionally the components are produced by a solvent free process, thereby making both the process and the final component more environmentally friendly.
Glycodur-Sliding-Bearings are technically and economically more than a match for the competition, and additionally they are maintenance free.
Choose slide bearings, which for many years, have already been in line with the new European Standard.
Base your decision on the future and specify lead free Glycodur Slide Bearings from FTL Seals Technology. Request a free brochure from FTL Seals Technology ...
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