igus UK, the British subsidiary of German motion plastics manufacturer igus, runs a 3D printing service that prints custom components from the company’s own lubrication-free, wear-optimized plastic compounds, aimed at applications where standard 3D printing materials wear out too quickly. Customers upload a CAD model (or build one with igus’s online CAD configurator) and receive printed parts with no minimum order quantity, backed by a service life calculator that estimates a component’s expected wear life before it’s produced.
Parts are manufactured via SLS and can be further smoothed, coloured, or mechanically reworked, for example threads or thread inserts added, or produced to tight tolerances. igus positions the service around rapid spare-part replacement and small-batch production, citing case studies including a cost-effective replacement lead screw for ContiTech, fast-turnaround linear actuators for thyssenkrupp, and a lightweight, lubrication-free gearbox component for Cor.Sync.