New Way™ Air Bearings offers a wide array of products to meet your varying precision motion needs. One of our newest lineups brings fully integrated linear motion solutions. Our Linear Air Slides utilize our porous carbon air bearings, packaged inside an anodized aluminum housing, and supported against a precision-ground aluminum guide rail. Linear air slides…
New Way Explores How 3D Printing Can Benefit From Air Bearings!
For New Way® Air Bearings, precision manufacturing has always been our bread and butter. Now moving into the 21st century, manufacturing is expanding its horizons. Factory production is no longer simply reductive and top down, but also includes bottom up and additive processes, or as most of us would call it: 3D printing. Additive manufacturing…
What Does LCD Stand For: Understanding the Science and the Industry
New Way Air Bearings has long been a friend to high precision industries, namely semiconductor manufacturing, flat panel display production and the associated quality processes which they necessitate. Today we want to focus on an adjacent industry which stands to reap immense gains from the benefits of Frictionless Motion®️: LCD production. But what does LCD…
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See Your Bearing Savings3 Way Air Bearings Will Change Solar Glass Manufacturing
New Way Air Bearings is no stranger to the flat panel display (FPD) sector, as well as the energy production sector as a whole. This is why we see immense potential for the application of our Porous Media™ air bearings in the production of solar glass panels and solar cells. As the world goes green…
How Air Bearings Can Benefit Cryptocurrency Through the Semiconductor Industry
From Mine to Mint: Solving the Semiconductor Shortage The semiconductor shortage is old news by now. For well over a year, overstressed production lines have meant that vital industries have been unable to access these complex components in the qualities necessary to maintain production. However, video game consoles and other consumer electronics are not the…
How Air Turns and Porous Media™ are the Future of Immersive Virtual Reality
What a Porous Media™ Web Turn Bar Can Mean for New VR Tech It’s no secret that virtual reality is the next big thing in media. From video games to job training to the new Facebook metaverse, ubiquity seems to be the inevitable future of VR. This is borne out by the numbers as well….
What's Old and What's New with Flat Round Air Bearings
How We Continue to Innovate With Our Original Product New Way Air Bearings has expanded into numerous industries in the past several years, but this doesn’t mean we’ve paid any less attention to our mainstay products and industries. Flat Round Air Bearings were our earliest products and remain one of our most popular, and not…
Air Bearings and Agriculture: How Porous Media Can Revolutionize Farming and Produce Transport
Air Bearings: A New Epoch for Agricultural Technology New Way Air Bearings ® proudly supports a variety of industries, from metrology and semiconductor manufacturing to turbomachinery and rapid machine tooling. Now, we want to focus on a new market with vast potential for improvements in speed, reliability and longevity of operation: Agriculture. Here’s how flat…
How Air Bearings Benefit Semiconductor Manufacturing
During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, the world saw unprecedented shortages of many critical supplies . Of all of these, perhaps the most impactful to the global economy has been semiconductors chips. These chips are enormously important, with the products they control touching almost every aspect of our daily lives. While the shortage of…