Solutions and Markets

Markets

The variety of markets taking advantage of the benefits provided by Porous Media™ is expansive and ever growing. Where once our non-contact products were limited to semiconductor manufacture and flat panel transportation, our customers have used their ingenuity, combined with New Way’s in house design team, to expand our products into fields like automotive testing, for true force dynamometry and computed tomography, for faster, quieter CT scans. Air Bearings are building the future with additive manufacturing, ensuring precision through nanometer accurate metrological sensors and providing the foundation for a new generation of medical implants. See what New Way has done for your industry, and if your business is new to Air Bearings, New Way is here to help!

Additive Manufacturing/3D Printing

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Additive Manufacturing/3D Printing

Air Bearings offer nanometer scale precision for the next generation of 3D printing.

Energy Markets

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Energy Markets

Three Applications for New Way Air Bearings in the Energy Industry

Materials Handling Markets

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Materials Handling Markets

New Way Air Bearings® are ideal for materials processing stages across numerous industries.

Textiles and Composites Markets

Textiles and Composites Markets

Noncontact air bearings in the textiles and composites manufacturing sector

Automobile Testing

Automobile Testing

Frictionless motion enables rolling wind tunnels and true force dynamometry.

Bulk Powder Handling

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Bulk Powder Handling

Learn how Porous Media™ air bearings will revolutionize every corner of the bulk powder handling industry.

Computed Tomography

Radial Air Bearings allow for quieter, faster scans and greater patient comfort.

Flat Panel Display

With a combination of positive pressure and applied vacuum, air bearings allow for rapid, precise handling of FPD’s.

Flexible Web

Air Bearings allow for flexible web transportation with up to 180 degree bend angle and adjustable fly height.

Medical Markets

Medical Markets

Zero friction means no overshoot, and the capability to produce implants perfectly fitted to each patient.

Metrology

Truly repeatable motion offers meteorological instruments motion with virtually no hysteresis error.

Other Markets

Precision Machine Tool

High stiffness and damping make air bearings an ideal choice for tooling assemblies.

Semiconductor

Cleanroom compatibility and no lubrication make air bearings the perfect fit for semiconductor manufacture and wafer inspection.

Shaft Seals

The New-Seal™ combines a bearing and a seal into one unit, perfect for rotating applications working off process gases.

Vehicle Testing

Applications

The incredible adaptability of our Porous Media™ material allows us to create air bearings suited to a wide range of applications across numerous axis of motion. Our air bars and flat round air bearings enable smooth, single axis motion whilst our tool servo stages provide single axis motion with tool frequencies up to 1000 Hz.

Our air spindles and servo driven rotary stages enable precise rotary motion, as well as our radial air bearings, which can support turbomachinery grade shafts and rotary balancing operations.

When formed into a cylindrical shape, our Air Turns enable non-contact web handling, and every single New Way product meets ISO Class 3 cleanroom conditions. No matter your application, New Way Air Bearings are up to the task.

Conveying

For the non contact transportation of glass and FPD’s.

Fast Tool Servo