The ideal components for building frictionless linear motion, New Way Flat Air Bearings were the original standard, off-the-shelf, porous media air bearing product line, developed by New Way in the 1980's. They are now available in round or rectangular configurations.

The New Way air bushing is designed to make air bearing technology readily available to engineers with pre-existing designs based on round shaft guides. These components run on standard precision steel shafting and are available in Metric or English sizes.

For applications where pre-loading is difficult or impossible, Vacuum Preloaded Air Bearings add vacuum to New Way Porous Media™ Technology. Simply then, these bearings hold themselves down while simultaneously lifting themselves from the guide surface.

New Way offers a line of modular air bearing components specifically designed to meet the non-contact glass-handling requirements of the Flat Panel Display (FPD) manufacturing process, including FPD conveyor air bearings for high speed or low airflow applications.

Also for Flat Panel Display (FPD) manufacturing applications, the New Way Porous Media™ precision chuck can be used for ultra-precise, non-contact control of FPD glass under or near precision processes or automated optical inspection (AOI) solutions, inline or off-line.