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!
Aerospace Manufacturing
Whether it be civil or defense, in the atmosphere or hard vacuum, precision motion is crucial to developing these technologies.
Agriculture
New Way Air Bearings provide an ideal platform for agriculture, an industry which requires absolute resiliency and reliability in their dynamic components.
Automation Testing
New Way Air Bearings provide an ideal platform for automated testing, coordinate verification and other inline quality control processes.
Energy Markets
Three Applications for New Way Air Bearings in the Energy Industry
Federal and Defense
New Way Air Bearings provide an ideal platform for defense applications that require precision tracking and degraded environment operation.
Food and Beverage
Whether your process requires heat, cold, grinding, milling, or simply around-the-clock reliability for product conveyance, Porous Media Technology™ delivers the solution you’re looking for.
Industrial Construction
New Way brings robust bearing solutions to manufacturing and industrial construction in an industry that turns labor and material efficiencies into a competitive advantage.
Laboratory Instrumentation
Whether governmental, academic or privately owned, precision and repeatability in scientific laboratories is of the utmost importance. At New Way we understand this need for uncompromising performance.
Marine Markets
Air Bearing technology offers immense value in the marine industry, both within shipyards and the larger shipping industry as a whole.
Materials Handling Markets
New Way Air Bearings® are ideal for materials processing stages across numerous industries.
Textiles and Composites Markets
Noncontact air bearings in the textiles and composites manufacturing sector
Automobile Testing
Frictionless motion enables rolling wind tunnels and true force dynamometry.
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
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
The benefits of air bearings make them ideal for applications in a broad range of markets, from food processing to solar cell manufacturing
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
New Way® Air Bearings provides an array of Frictionless Motion®️TM solutions to overcome common challenges in vehicle testing.Learn More About the Porous Media Difference
