ELGES

Schaeffler AG
  • Headquarters

  • Industriestraße 1-3, Herzogenaurach, 91074, DE
Germany
  • Established time

  • 1946
  • Number of employees

  • 84000
  • Products

  • Bearings
ELGES is a brand of bearings and rod ends acquired by the Schaeffler Group (INA) in 1984 through the company's investment in Helmut ELGES GmbH, a German manufacturer of maintenance-free spherical plain bearings and rod ends.
Maintenance-free ELGES spherical plain bearings
Maintenance-free ELGES spherical plain bearings are used where a long operating life is a requirement or where bearings with a metallic sliding contact surface are not suitable because of lubrication issues, such as under unilateral load. Spherical plain bearings allow spatial adjustment movements and, depending on the bearing type (radial, angular contact or axial spherical plain bearing), can support, radial, combined or axial loads.

Maintenance-free ELGES spherical plain bearings have special sliding layers based on PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene). In descending order of performance, these are:ELGES Product Group
ELGOGLIDE® – the highest performance sliding layer
PTFE composite
PTFE-bronze film.
These materials form the slideway of the outer ring or shaft locating washer. They transmit the forces occurring and provide lubrication – the bearings must not be lubricated by any other means.