Design and manufacture of innovative plastic bearing solutions

Product catalog summary

Introduction
BNL specializes in the design and manufacture of innovative plastic bearing solutions, focusing on collaboration to meet client objectives such as market share, product life improvement, operational efficiency, and energy savings. By integrating client application experience with BNL's expertise, they aim to produce cost-effective and innovative solutions.

Cost Reduction
BNL's integrated designs reduce costs by combining multiple components into single moulded parts, thus minimizing expenditure on parts, assembly, freight, and storage. This approach adds value and provides whole system cost reductions, offering a competitive advantage.

Product Features
BNL's plastic bearings are lightweight, chemical and corrosion-resistant, non-magnetic, and do not require lubrication. They can be anti-static or static-dissipative, ensuring high quality and longevity. The fully moulded bearings maintain a fine crystalline layer for exceptional wear resistance.

Simplified Installation and Maintenance
The lubrication-free design of BNL's bearings simplifies installation and maintenance by eliminating the need for lubricants and reducing the complexity of assembly with integrated clips and fixings.

Specialist Environments
BNL's bearings are designed to operate efficiently in harsh environments, resisting water, chemical attacks, and frequent washdowns. They are non-magnetic and anti-static, preventing interference with magnetic and electrical systems.

Energy Efficiency
Plastic bearings are significantly lighter than metal alternatives, requiring less power for operation, which allows for smaller motors and more economical products.

Industry Applications
BNL's plastic bearings are used in various industries, including automotive, CCTV mechanisms, ATMs, LCD screen processing, photocopiers, printers, and food processing. Each application benefits from the integration of multiple components, reducing space, weight, and power consumption.

Value Added Design
BNL enhances product value by integrating functions into their bearing designs, reducing the number of components and operations needed, thus increasing performance, quality, and competitiveness.

Competitive Advantage
BNL offers tailored solutions to help clients achieve product innovation and efficiency. Their expertise ensures clients can outpace competition by leveraging advanced production techniques and maintaining high quality standards, as reflected in their ISO certifications.

Contact Information
BNL has offices in the UK, USA, Japan, China, and India, providing global support and expertise in plastic bearing solutions.

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Design and manufacture of innovative plastic bearing solutions

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BNL is the world leader in specialist plastic bearing solutions. We are experts in the integration of product features, adding value and providing whole system cost reductions to give you a competitive advantage. We focus on providing you with a bespoke design to achieve your objectives; whether these are labour-saving or cost-down initiatives, product innovation or increased market share. Our integrated designs add value whilst reducing component count, assembly operations and product weight, by combining multiple components and functions into a single moulded part. Clips, flanges, mounting...

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Plastic bearings have unique characteristics which make them ideally suited to a wide range • They have low inertia • They are chemical and corrosion resistant • They do not require lubrication • They can be anti-static or static-dissipative BNL plastic bearings are uniquely developed to be Our bearings are fully moulded which maintains the fine crystalline layer on the surface area of the bearing race-ways that significantly improves wear resistance, increasing the efficiency and Simplify Installation and Maintenance Longer Life Lubrication-free, our plastic bearings minimise your maintenance...

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Some of the many industries and applications that benefit from BNL’s plastic bearing technology include: Automotive For an industry where weight and speed The high temperature and harsh chemical equate to performance, our low-friction, production process for LCD products lightweight components provide cost- prohibits the use of metal bearings. effective solutions. Our steering column Our bearings combine specialist plastic designs integrate retainers and clips, materials and glass balls to maintain simplifying assembly and lowering the performance and life in these demanding whole system cost....

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Working with BNL provides you with expert product development support, high quality design and manufacture, plus the benefit of knowledge gained over decades of plastic bearing innovation. To ensure you always profit from leading-edge technology and production methods, the BNL New Technology Centre proactively researches and develops our capabilities, improving our understanding of plastic bearing design and manufacture. We recognise that to achieve a competitive advantage, you need innovative solutions that are also costeffective. We use advanced production techniques to mould different materials...

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Sales / Engineering Manufacturing / Distribution Contacts and Enquiries BNL (UK) Limited Manse Lane Knaresborough North Yorkshire United Kingdom HG5 8LF BNL (USA) Inc. 56 Leonard Street Unit 5 Foxboro MA 02035 USA BNL (Japan) Inc. 7F Yamatane Hakozaki Bldg. , 8-1 Nihonbashi Hakozaki-cho Chuo-ku Tokyo 103-0015 Japan BNL (China) Shanghai Plastics Capital Trading Limited Room 601 468 Xinhui Road Putuo District Shanghai 200060 China BNL (India) Plastics Capital India Pvt. Ltd. 3rd Floor Devika Towers 6 Nehru Place New Delhi 110019 India innovative bearing solutions

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