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  • As the tribological leader, GGB helps create a world of motion with minimal frictional loss through plain bearing and surface engineering technologies. Thanks to our global footprint and wealth of specific applications expertise, our capabilities are virtually limitless. We work to push the boundaries of possibility, inspiring customers across all markets to partner—and innovate—alongside us.
Product Portfolio
  • Polymer Coatings

  • GGB's TriboShield™ product line includes seven standard formulations that cover the full spectrum of mechanical, thermal and chemical capabilities offered by today's polymer materials. Our TriboShield™ polymer coatings can be applied to nearly any surface, regardless of shape or material, making their potential almost endless.
      • TriboShield™ TS161

      • TS161 is an engineering thermoplastic based composite coating composed of a primer and a top coat. Specifically designed for low friction at low loading conditions, it presents excellent wear resistance as one of its standout features. TS161 is part of the standard TriboShield™ product range.

        PRODUCT'S BENEFITS:
        • Simple assembly
        • Materials reduces size and weight
        • Reduce size/weight
        • Material allows for compact design
        • Common to One Piece Compact Design
        • Material performs well under lubricated operation
        • Lubricated operation
        • Material offers a low weight solution
        • Low Weight
        • Material offers good wear resistance
        • Increased Wear Resistance
        • Material allows for extended life cycle
        • Extended Component Life Cycle
        • Material operates well in dry environment
        • Dry operation

        UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS
        • Low friction in low loading conditions
        • Excellent wear resistance under low loads
      • TriboShield™ TS225 Share

      • TS225 is based on a nanostructured thermoset polymer designed for low friction and high wear resistance at low to medium loads in dry or lubricated conditions. TS225 is part of the standard TriboShield™ product range.

        PRODUCT'S BENEFITS:
        • Material allows for simple assembly
        • Simple assembly
        • Materials reduces size and weight
        • Reduce size/weight
        • Material allows for compact design
        • Common to One Piece Compact Design
        • Material performs well under lubricated operation
        • Lubricated operation
        • Material offers a low weight solution
        • Low Weight
        • Material offers good wear resistance
        • Increased Wear Resistance
        • Material helps extend application's service life
        • Extended service life
        • Material operates well in dry environment
        • Dry operation

        UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS
        • Excellent friction at high sliding speeds
        • Very good friction in lubricated conditions
        • Applicable to heat-sensitive substrates
        • High surface hardness
      • TriboShield™ TS421

      • TS421 is based on engineering thermoplastics, specifically designed for extremely low friction in lubricated conditions under low loads but presenting good characteristics in dry low load conditions as well. This system comprises a primer layer and an active hybrid top-coat. TS421 is part of the standard TriboShield™ product range.

        UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS
        • Extremely low friction in lubricated condition
        • Very low friction in dry conditions at low loads
        • Excellent chemical resistance
    • Metal Polymer Bearings

    • The excellent low friction and high wear resistance performance of GGB metal-polymer bearings make them ideal for hundreds of applications in numerous and diverse industries. Depending upon application requirements, metal-polymer composite bearings can be produced in many shapes and sizes.
        • DP4®

        • CHARACTERISTICS
          • DP4 low friction bushings offer good wear and low friction performance over a wide range of loads, speeds and temperatures in dry running conditions
          • Very good performance in lubricated applications
          • Good performance in greased applications
          • Suitable for linear, oscillating and rotating movements
          • Lead-free material compliant to ELV, WEEE, and RoHS specifications
          • Approved to standard DIN EN 1797: 2002-02 and ISO 21010: 2004-04 (Cryogenic Vessels – Gas/Material Compatibility) for piping, valves, fittings and other components in both gaseous and liquid oxygen for up to maximum temperature of 60°C and oxygen pressure of 25 bars. Contact GGB for further details.
          • Approved to standard FAR 25.853 and FAR 25.855 - Federal Aviation Regulations – making it suitable for interior aircraft applications

          PRODUCT'S BENEFITS
          • Simple assembly
          • Material helps reduce total system cost
          • Reduced System Cost
          • Materials reduces size and weight
          • Reduce size/weight
          • Materials offer quiet operation
          • Quiet Operation
          • Material eliminates/reduces maintenance
          • Maintenance Free Operation
          • Material performs well under lubricated operation
          • Lubricated operation
          • Material operates well in corrosive environments
          • Eliminate corrosion
          • Material provides dimensional stability
          • Dimensional Stability
        • DTS10

        • CHARACTERISTICS
          • The first polymer-lined precision bearing for lubricated conditions offering low friction and high wear resistance that is designed to be machined on-site for tight tolerances
          • Excellent wear resistance and low friction in lubricated hydraulic applications
          • Excellent chemical resistance, fatigue strength, cavitation and flow erosion resistance, and good behavior in dry start-up conditions
          • A minimum overlay thickness of 0.1 mm permits, under carefully controlled conditions, machining of the assembled bore for improved dimensional tolerance and reduced geometric defects, while retaining a thin layer of PTFE sliding surface
          • Compatible with most standard machining processes including turning, broaching, reaming, and milling
        • DX®10

        • CHARACTERISTICS
          • Perfect for heavy duty and harsh environments
          • Excellent chemical resistance
          • Excellent erosion resistance
          • Good fatigue strength
          • Good wear performance
          • Can be broached for tighter tolerance
          • Lead-free material compliant to ELV, RoHS and WEEE specifications

          PRODUCT'S BENEFITS
          • Chemical Resistant
          • Material is suitable for continuous sliding, rotating and oscillating movement
          • Suitable for Continuous Sliding, Rotating and Oscillating Movement
          • Material helps reduce total system cost
          • Reduced System Cost
          • Quality materials you can rely on
          • Quality/Reliability
          • Material performs well under lubricated operation
          • Lubricated operation
          • Material offers good wear resistance
          • Increased Wear Resistance
          • Material helps extend application's service life
          • Extended service life
          • Material allows for extended life cycle
          • Extended Component Life Cycle
      • Engineered Plastics

      • GGB's Engineered Plastic Polymer bearings provide excellent wear resistance and low friction in both dry and lubricated operating conditions over a wide range of applications. Engineered plastic bearings are made from thermoplastic bearing material processed by injection moulding. This production method enables us to produce unlimited dimensions in accordance to our standard, and also parts with special designs and features.
          • EP®12

          • Self-Lubricating Engineered Plastic Bushings

            CHARACTERISTICS
            • Good bushing performance in dry working conditions
            • Good bushing performance in lubricated or marginally lubricated applications
            • Corrosion resistant in humid/saline environments
            • Very good price performance ratio
            • Very good weight performance ratio
            • Within injection moulding tool feasibility unlimited dimensions and design features
            • Compliant to ELV, WEEE and RoHS specifications
          • EP®

          • Self-Lubricating Engineered Plastic Bearing

            CHARACTERISTICS
            • Good bearing performance in dry working conditions
            • Good bearing performance in lubricated or marginally lubricated applications
            • Corrosion resistant in humid/saline environments
            • Very good price performance ratio
            • Very good weight performance ratio
            • Within injection moulding tool feasibility unlimited dimensions and design features
            • Compliant to ELV, WEEE and RoHS specifications
          • EP®15

          • UV Resistant Bearings for Sun & Outdoor Applications

            CHARACTERISTICS
            • UV-resistant bearings
            • Abrasion-resistant
            • Lightweight
            • Low coefficient of friction
            • Very good bushing performance in dry working conditions
            • Good bushing performance in lubricated or marginally lubricated applications
            • Corrosion-resistant in humid/ saline environments
            • Very good price performance ratio
            • Very good weight performance ratio
            • Within injection molding tool feasibility unlimited dimensions and design features
            • Compliant to ELV, WEEE and RoHS specifications
            • For more information, please check our FAQ section

            PRODUCT'S BENEFITS
            • One Piece Compact Design
            • Material allows for simple assembly
            • Simple assembly
            • Materials reduces size and weight
            • Reduce size/weight
            • Material helps reduce noise
            • Reduce noise
            • Material offers a low weight solution
            • Low Weight
            • Material helps extend application's service life
            • Extended service life
            • Material operates well in corrosive environments
            • Eliminate corrosion
            • Material operates well in dry environment
            • Dry operation
        • Fiber Reinforced Composite

        • GGB's Fiber Reinforced Composite products typically consists of a filament-wound, fiberglass-impregnated, epoxy backing with a variety of low-friction wear-resistant bearing linings. These self-lubricating fiber reinforced composite bearings are particularly effective in applications where the relative motion is not sufficient to promote circulation of the oil or grease used with more conventional bearings. GGB Fiber Reinforced Composite bearings are available as bushes, plates, bearing segments and special forms, depending on the particular material type.
            • HPMB®

            • High Precision Fiber Reinforced Composite Bearing

              CHARACTERISTICS
              • Machinable inner and outer diameters for superior application precision, circularity and cylindricity tolerances
              • Pre-machined high precision HPMB bearings available for immediate installation
              • High precision through easy single point machining of the bearing liner, on-site prior to installation
              • Superior precision achieved with post-installation (inner diameter tolerance IT7 attainable) single point machining of the bearing liner
              • High load capacity
              • Excellent shock and edge loading capacity
              • Low friction with negligible stick-slip
              • Low wear rate for extended bearing life
              • Excellent corrosion resistance
              • Dimensionally stable - very low water absorption, low swelling
              • Environmentally friendly grease-free operation
            • HSG

            • High-Load Fiber Reinforced Composite PTFE Bearings

              CHARACTERISTICS
              • Self-lubricating plain bearing material
              • High static load capacity (twice as much as standard GAR-MAX® bearings)
              • Excellent shock and misalignment resistance
              • Excellent contamination resistance
              • Very good friction and wear properties
              • Good chemical resistance

              PRODUCT'S BENEFITS
              • Simple assembly
              • Material is resistant to shock loads
              • Resistant to Shock Loads
              • Material eliminates/reduces maintenance
              • Maintenance Free Operation
              • Material allows for compact design
              • Common to One Piece Compact Design
              • Material withstands high loads
              • High Load Capacity
              • Material helps extend application's service life
              • Extended service life
              • Material operates well in dry environment
              • Dry operation
            • GAR-MAX®

            • Self-Lubricating Fiberglass Reinforced Plain Bearing

              CHARACTERISTICS
              • High load capacity
              • Excellent shock and misalignment resistance
              • Excellent contamination resistance
              • Very good friction and wear properties
              • Good chemical resistance
              • Very good dry wear performance
              • GAR-MAX® bearing sizes available according to DIN ISO 4379 for the replacement of traditional greased bronze bearings
          • Metals and Bimetals

          • Bimetal and metal bearings offer excellent corrosion resistance in industrial outdoor applications and in water, marine and offshore environments. GGB offers a broad range of sizes, forms and materials in monometallic and bimetallic bearings.
              • PyroSlide™ 1100

              • High Temperature Powder Metal Bearing

                CHARACTERISTICS
                • Powder metallurgical bearing material consisting of a solid lubricant homogeneously distributed in a metallic matrix
                • Self-lubricating and maintenance-free by forming a solid lubricant film during the relative motion
                • Excellent high-temperature resistance
                • High wear resistance
                • Low-friction properties
                • Resistant to corrosive environments
                • High load capacity
                • High dimensional precision
                • No requirement to operate against high cost special counter surface materials with specific hardness requirements, a standard stainless steel counter surface is appropriate

                PRODUCT'S BENEFITS
                • Chemical Resistant
                • Material helps reduce total system cost
                • Reduced System Cost
                • Materials offer quiet operation
                • Quiet Operation
                • Quality materials you can rely on
                • Quality/Reliability
                • Material offers good wear resistance
                • Increased Wear Resistance
                • Materials helps improve efficiency
                • Improve efficiency
                • Material provides dimensional stability
                • Dimensional Stability
                • Material operates over wide range of temperature
                • Temperature Range
              • AuGlide™

              • Bimetal Lead-Free Plain Bearing

                CHARACTERISTICS
                • Lead-free
                • Machinable
                • Design freedom – customizable to meet specific indentation and shape needs
                • Capable of supporting high specific loads and high temperatures
                • Excellent fatigue strength under dynamic and shock load conditions
                • Excellent wear resistance
                • Suitable for hydrodynamic operation
                • Suitable for oil and grease lubrication
                • Superior performance under oscillating movement
                • Thin-wall construction permits compact bearing assembly
                • Indents in the bearing surface provide a reservoir for grease and thus allow extended re-greasing
              • GGB-CSM®

              • Thick Walled Monometal Bearings

                CHARACTERISTICS
                • Self-lubricating metal bearings produced by metallurgic powder ?
                • Maintenance-free bearings with homogeneously distributed solid lubricant (graphite, MoS2) in the metallic matrix
                • High load capacity and temperature ranges up to 600°C possible depending on the alloy
                • Corrosion resistant alloys are available
                • Lead free alloys are available
            • Bearing Assemblies

            • Engineered as a solution to conquer misalignment reduction when high demands are placed on bearings, GGB's UNI, MINI and EXALIGN® self-aligning shaft bearing assemblies offer improved equipment performance under standard bearing assemblies by reducing stress and friction. Offering superior performance in a wide variety of applications, GGB's self-aligning assemblies are available in both standard and custom configurations.
                • EXALIGN®

                • Self-Aligning Pedestal and Flange Bearing Housing

                  CHARACTERISTICS
                  • Adjusting bearing for misalignment equalisation
                  • All-purpose as flange (EXALIGN DF and FL) or pedestal bearing (EXALIGN PB), suitable for high loads
                  • Self-aligning spheric avoids edge load to the bearing
                  • Adjustable up to ± 5°
                  • Spheric is secured against distortion
                  • Depending on choice of housing, spherics and bearings, simple to most demanding bearing solutions are possible
                  • For optimum design solutions, various bearings from the GGB product programme are applicable

                  PRODUCT'S BENEFITS
                  • Simple assembly
                  • Quality materials you can rely on
                  • Quality/Reliability
                  • Material withstands high loads
                  • High Load Capacity
                  • Material helps extend application's service life
                  • Extended service life
                  • Material provides dimensional stability
                  • Dimensional Stability
                • MINI

                • Self-Aligning Pillow Block Bearing Assembly

                  CHARACTERISTICS
                  • Adjusting bearing for misalignment equalisation
                  • All-purpose as flange or pedestal bearing, suitable for high loads
                  • Self-aligning spheric avoids edge load to the bearing
                  • Adjustable up to ± 5°
                  • Spheric is secured against distortion
                  • Depending on choice of housing, spherics and bearings, simple to most demanding bearing solutions are possible
                  • For optimum design solutions, various bearings from the GGB product programme are applicable

                  PRODUCT'S BENEFITS
                  • Simple assembly
                  • Quality materials you can rely on
                  • Quality/Reliability
                  • Material withstands high loads
                  • High Load Capacity
                  • Material helps extend application's service life
                  • Extended service life
                  • Material provides dimensional stability
                  • Dimensional Stability
                • UNI

                • Self-Aligning Pillow Block Bearing Housing

                  CHARACTERISTICS
                  • Adjusting bearing for misalignment equalisation
                  • All-purpose as flanged or pedestal bearing, suitable for high loads
                  • Self-aligning spheric avoids edge load to the bearing
                  • Adjustable up to ± 5°
                  • Spheric is secured against distortion
                  • Depending on choice of housing, spherics and bearings, simple to most demanding bearing solutions are possible
                  • For optimum design solutions, various bearings from the GGB product programme are applicable

                  PRODUCT'S BENEFITS
                  • Simple assembly
                  • Quality materials you can rely on
                  • Quality/Reliability
                  • Material withstands high loads
                  • High Load Capacity
                  • Material helps extend application's service life
                  • Extended service life
                  • Material provides dimensional stability
                  • Dimensional Stability
              • Tribology

                  • Tribology is the science of wear, friction and lubrication, and encompasses how interacting surfaces and other tribo-elements behave in relative motion in natural and artificial systems.This includes bearing design and lubrication. What is Tribology? Tribology is not an isolated science, but rather a complex, multidisciplinary endeavor where advances are made by collaborative efforts of researchers from fields including mechanical engineering, manufacturing, materials science and engineering, chemistry and chemical engineering, physics, mathematics, biomedical science and engineering, computer science, and more.