Autism and air bearings. What do the two have to do with each other? Many families in our community, like thousands of others, have a child diagnosed with autism. A large number of these students with autism are entering workforce age (70,000 annually across the US), yet with little opportunities available. This impacts not only…
See How Air Bearings Move Optics Manufacturing Into the Future!
New Way® Air Bearings has long been proud to support many industries, from automotive testing and healthcare to flexible web handling and semiconductor production. With our proven track record of precision-made products, we felt it was high time that we highlighted what New Way Air Bearings can offer to the optics industry. An industry that…
Welcome to 2020: A Promising Future for Air Bearings
As we kicked off 2020, we sat down with members of the New Way® leadership team to talk about this year’s initiatives. Nick Hackett, President, Tim Claffey, Vice President of Sales, and Rich Hesse, Technical Sales Manager offered unique insight on New Way’s 2019 highlights and how that translates into where New Way is headed…
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Overcoming Web Handling Challenges with Air Turns
Flexible materials are considered to be one of five manufacturing innovations that will change the world. Once considered a futuristic concept, the proven demonstration of flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) has led to their demand across a wide range of industries: Automotive Medical Aerospace Defense Consumer Electronics FHE ideas are limitless, but the means to produce…
New Way Explores Cleanroom Applications
How Air Bearings Can Benefit Cleanroom Dependent Industries In our journey to expand our capabilities and the customers we’re able to serve, New Way Air Bearings ® recently undertook a test to determine whether our air bearing products meet ISO 14644-1 Class 3 for particulate generation, a vitally crucial standard for cleanroom dependent industries. Per…
Walking the Talk: How New Way Uses Air Bearings During Manufacturing
Here at New Way®, we spend a lot of time describing the benefits and applications of air bearings, specifically our Porous Media Technology™. We know that to create products with today’s demanding precision requirements, you need manufacturing equipment and processes to remove error sources, especially those caused by friction. We believe in the benefits of…
New Way Shows Students Why Manufacturing is So Cool
Middle Schoolers Learn About the High-Tech Side of Factories For the third year in a row, New Way Air Bearings ® was proud to participate in the What’s Cool about Manufacturing initiative. This year New Way partnered with the E.T. Richardson Middle School from Springfield, PA to offer them a unique look behind the scenes…
Metrology Gets a Boost in Precision Thanks to New Way’s Air Bearings
How Air Bearings Improve Measurement Capabilities New Way Air Bearings® is proud to offer our lineup of air bearing technology for all your metrological needs. Our Porous Media Technology™ is ideally suited to metrology related tasks including: Coordinate verification Roundness checking Flatness control The air bearings’ unique capabilities, provided through Frictionless Motion®️ atop a micro-thin…
What’s New in Servo-Driven Rotary Stages
See How New Way’s Servo-Driven Rotary Bearings Are Being Put to Use This summer, New Way took our Porous Media Technology™ and applied it to rotary motion, bringing you the Servo-Driven rotary stage. This advancement represents an all-in-one solution for precision rotary motion, containing New Way’s air spindle technology, a slotless, brushless motor and a…
