A solar powered car using igus plain bearings has raced its way across more than 1,800 miles of Australian desert, helping Team Sonnenwagen achieve sixth place in the World Solar Challenge 2020. The team, made up of a group of students from the other side of the world to the race (in Germany), approached igus requesting lightweight, wear-resistant and lubrication-free iglidur plain bearings made of durable tribo-polymer: what was supplied helped them finish just outside the Top 3 having raced all the way from Darwin to Adelaide in less than a week on the power of the sun.

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A new black-coloured guide roller with smooth-running polymer ball bearings has been designed, manufactured and tested by igus following a customer request. The product, which uses black anodised aluminium tubes, is the latest in the xiros film guide roller range offered by the Northampton-based company and is widely used in the fields of packaging and food technology. Matthew Aldridge, Managing Director of igus UK, says: "The idea for this new design was put forward, prototypes were designed and after extensive testing, the results were positive and showed nothing detrimental in comparison to the original clear anodised aluminium roller. So a new product was born".