igus opens manus awards for innovative bearing applications
16 January 2013
Calling all designers: igus is holding its sixth biennial manus competition for innovative plastic bearing applications. The deadline for entries is February 28 2013.
The manus awards, which were initially launched in 2003, celebrate innovative and creative applications with lubrication and maintenance-free polymer bearings that distinguish themselves through technical and/or economic efficiency.
Participating is very simple: just submit a short description of the application, outlining the previous problem and challenges, a description of the solution and details of the type of bearing, including photos or sketches.
The winner will receive prize money of €5,000, with second and third places receiving €2,500 and €1,000 respectively, and the award ceremony will take place at the Hannover Fair 2013 in Germany, April 8-12.
The manus awards are a joint initiative with academic partners including the Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe (Institute for composite materials), Kaiserslautern and the Fachhochschule Köln (academy Cologne).
“Today, metallic bushes that require oil are widely replaced by lubrication and maintenance-free plastic bearings as they are more reliable and have a long and calculable lifetime,” says Matthew Aldridge, director at igus in the UK. “igus offers the largest selection of environmentally compatible and calculable dry-tech plastic bearings worldwide and we set up this prestigious award 12 years ago to celebrate those industrial applications that are realising significant technical and economic benefits from using them. More than 300 entries were received for the last competition and we’re expecting even more this year.”
Entry details and documents can be found online here.
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