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chainflex - sustainable, durable, with a guarantee

Our cables already move a lot! They are specially developed to keep systems, machines and equipment in constant motion. We test them extensively, are constantly expanding our portfolio and give a guarantee of up to 4 years on our products!

When we make a difference, you can benefit too:

Long service life

Promoting sustainability in your own company

Fast delivery times

Less CO2 emissions thanks to short delivery routes

Global supply routes between continents as a symbol of short delivery routes.

We try to avoid long transport routes in general. Thanks to our local supply chain, igus can offer 70% of all chainflex cables worldwide with short transport routes.

This saves us a lot of CO2 and you as a customer benefit from fast delivery times.

Copper recycling with a loop of copper strands and arrows around three material stages.

Copper recycling: using finite resources responsibly.

igus recycles up to 100% of the copper waste from old cables. The copper is separated from the other materials in the cable, collected, processed into stranded wires and reused for new cables.

This means that the finite resource of copper is not simply thrown away. Instead, igus uses it responsibly and helps cover the constant demand for copper without wasting resources.

Don't just throw away residual lengths!

At the end of a cable drum, there are usually residual lengths of the respective cable. The quality is of course exactly identical to the rest on the cable drum and comes with the same 4-year guarantee.
What happens to these residual lengths? Throwing them away is neither sustainable nor sensible!

That's why we offer our available residual lengths of each cable in our online shop at a 50% discount.

Just take a look at our shop: Directly next to your desired part, you can see whether there are any residual lengths available.

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The benefits for you as a customer

Sustainability and durability also bring a number of practical benefits for our customers.

Chainflex cables in boxes to simplify maintenance.

The chainflex CASE as a sustainable solution

Our customer BSH Hausgeräte was looking for a solution that would enable them to accurately unwind cables during maintenance and avoid waste. The customer also focussed on aspects such as saving packaging material and space in the warehouse.

The solution is the chainflex CASE! Thanks to the Case, our customer can now simply unwind the cables directly in the warehouse, has no more waste and has been able to save 84% on shipping costs as this solution can be transported by parcel carrier.

What is good for our customer is also good for the environment.

The customer is satisfied with this solution and we are proud to have protected the environment. Packaging materials are saved in the long term and no waste is produced due to offcuts. The customer also has the option of using the refill option, saving a further 2.6kg of packaging waste.

In other words, an absolute win-win situation.

More about our customer's application example

Buy cables directly in the chainflex CASE

Fewer resources thanks to a long service life

Supplying energy is a challenge, especially on long travels. The customer does not want to spend a lot of money unnecessarily because cables have to be permanently replaced. A further disadvantage is the constant waste of old cables and the high energy consumption for producing new ones, in addition to the journey from production to use. For example, one of our customers faced this problem with an indoor crane in a cement plant with a 32m crane runway.

Saving money and protecting the environment.

The solution included an energy chain filled with various chainflex cables. The guaranteed durability ensures its functionality, which saves the customer money and time and at the same time conserves valuable environmental resources. In this way, great things can be achieved in the long term through a high level of quality awareness.

More about the solution for an indoor crane

The cable carrier on a hall crane guides cables along the runway.

Does it have to be like this?

This is a question we at igus ask ourselves in many projects with regard to the waste of resources. You can find some customer examples here:

Do e-chains have to end up as waste at the end of their service life?

An example from our customer, Otto Christ AG.

Does a cable replacement have to take a long time?

This saved our customer Noble Drilling 8 hours of replacement time.

This is what we are already doing to reduce our ecological footprint!

Long service life for fewer replacements

Our cables stand for a long service life in the energy chain. This also means that you as a customer have to replace fewer cables, which saves resources.

To find out how long the desired cable will really last, simply use our service life calculator.

Go to the service life calculator

Sustainable shipping solution: the chainflex CASE

This allows your cables to be delivered by parcel carrier, which eliminates the need for pallets and haulage companies. In addition, the CASE can be used again and again thanks to the refill option and keeps your warehouse organised.

More about the chainflex CASE

chainflex CASE for easy delivery, storage, unspooling and reordering.

Recycling copper

The sustainable use of copper as a raw material is particularly important to us. This is why 100% of our copper waste is recycled to produce new cables.

Open power cables with copper strands and colored insulation.

No fixed lengths to prevent overproduction

We cut our cables to the metre so that you don't waste cables. We do not specify fixed lengths or minimum order quantities, which means that you can order from as little as 1m at no extra charge.

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No cable waste thanks to residual lengths

We offer residual lengths on a cable drum at 50% of the original price! This way we prevent waste and you get more cost-effective cables with the same quality as all other chainflex cables!

Discover residual lengths in the online shop

Local production

We try to have our cables manufactured as locally as possible. This allows us to avoid long transport routes and save CO2. Across the globe, up to 70% of our cables now have short delivery routes.

Cable storage with shelves full of cable reels in a long aisle.

Everything from a single source: no waste due to multiple suppliers

With the readychain systems, we supply cables, connectors and energy chains ready for installation from a single source. You benefit from shorter installation times and only use the material you really need. This eliminates a large amount of waste.

Saving paper with online materials

We are constantly reducing our number of hard copies, thereby saving paper and CO2. You can find all information about our products in addition to data sheets, catalogues and test reports here on our website.

More about the digital chainflex world

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Thanks to UL verification, we are guaranteed and certified

One of the most important aspects of our sustainable work is our high-quality and therefore long-lasting products! This is due to the fact that we continuously test and check all cables in our in-house test laboratory!
The result: Cables with a guarantee of up to 4 years! For you, this means that the cables used rarely need to be replaced.

And we go one step further: Not only do we guarantee the 4 years, our guarantee statement is also UL-verified. This confirms that this statement is not just a marketing promise, but that we really take it seriously and that you can benefit from the operational safety of our cables.

And is there more on the subject of sustainability in the cable industry?

Yes, of course! We'll show you what other ways we are exploring to protect our planet.

Discover our customised products from a single source and reduce long delivery routes, overproduction and waste!

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Zero waste: What does that mean and how can igus achieve it?