Manus award winners
November 1st 2011 igus UK has presented its coveted
manus awards to two British
engineering companies – Trailerteq
and MBP Concepts. The manus
competition is a plastic bearing
design innovation contest held every
two years and winners are selected by
an independent panel of academics
and industry specialists.
Winning the award for Most Eye
Catching Design was MBP Concepts
with its Tyligo trailer. Designed and
developed in Britain, it uses the
iglidur sleeve bearing from igus for
the critical function of folding and
opening the trailer by sliding the
front bracket on the main stainless
steel beam. Key requirements were
that the bearing should combine
high load bearing capacity with long
life, small size and minimal
maintenance requirements.
The second winner was Trailerteq,
who won the manus Plastic Bearing
Innovation award. Based in
Lancashire, Trailerteq used iglidur
polymer bearings in its compact
Rapid Deployment Transport trailer.
The igus bearing was used after it
was discovered that a phosphorbronze
bearing used in the main
arm, linking the body of the RDT
with the towing vehicles, was prone
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