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Can igus® products help label 50,000 bottles in one hour?

October 5, 2017

Caitlyn Cornell

Watch a KRONES packaging machine utilize xiros ball bearing rollers, drylin lead screws and nuts, drylin N, drylin R, energy chains, and tribotape® in their high-speed labeling machine!

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Krones Application Solution with iglide® bearings

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