igus celebrated the
beginning of a adventurous world wide tour to mark the 30th anniversary of its ‘iglidur’ polymer bearings and the 50th anniversary of the company as a whole.
igus GmbH sent out a small, retrofitted car on a round-the-world trip with its first stop in “Incredible
India ”.
Igus presented the car fitted with 56 igus polymer
bearing components at the press conference on 30th January 2014 in Delhi . The car was also
displayed at the Auto Expo 2014, Delhi
and had an overwhelming response from the visitors.
With the flagging off on 10th January 2014 the iglidur started its road trip from Delhi travelling through 14 major cities like Agra, the pink city of Jaipur, Ahmedabad followed by the financial capital Mumbai, Pune to the automotive hub Chennai and finally to its last destination in India - Bangalore, the head quarters of igus India, covering a total distance of 4619 km and visiting 61 major manufacturing companies across India.
At the closing event in the igus India Factory and HQ the car had a traditional welcome and emotional send off by the staff in the presence of vendors, associates and members of the press.
Pic 1 :Caption - Welcome of the car at the igus India
factory
During this event
igus also honoured innovative applications with polymer bearings in India
for the year 2013 with the first edition of the Indian local Manus®
awards.
Pic
2 : Caption - Manus Award Winners
Gold Indian manus winner
(INR 100,000/-) Late Mr. Harshwardhan Gupta from Neubauplan Automation for file
cutting machine with Drylin and many other parts. Silver Indian manus winner (INR 75,000/-) Mr. Munir Pansare from Tata Motors was awarded foe his
application of noise reduction in steering column using JVSM. And finally the Bronze Indian manus winner (INR 50,000/-) Ms. Manjari
Govankop from Mahindra & Mahindra had a tractor application where igubal
WGRM ball and socket special part with seal and major VAVE objectives were met.
Further igus had committed at the press conference in Delhi on 30th Jan 2014, to
donate INR 100 and igus GmbH € 1 for every kilometre driven by the car on
Indian roads. At the end of the journey the car travelled a total distance of
4619 Kilometres. A sum of INR 8,54,515/- (around €10,000) was donated to M.A.D
(Make A Difference) which would help sponsoring the education of 854 kids in India .
Iglidur on tour continues it journey in Asia and is currently
touring China followed by America and Europe, covering more than 20 countries
across the globe and returning back to celebrate the 50th
anniversary of igus in Cologne, Germany.
Know
more about our iglidur product at: http://www.igus.in/iglidur
About igus India:
igus® operations in India started in the year
1998 with head quarters in Bangalore. igus offers widest range of products that
includes polymer bearings, igubal®spherical bearings, DryLin® linear bearings & guide systems enable
them to serve the whole industrial establishments in India from a small work
shop to huge industrial establishments.